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September 12, 2024 5:27 AM

Could You Be Singleton’s Next Young Woman of The Year?

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With the 150th Singleton Show coming up, so too is the time to pick Singleton’s next Young Woman of the Year. Elinor Bowman was named Singleton Show’s Young Woman of the Year for 2023 before she was named as a Zone 5 finalist and became one of 15 finalists in The Land Sydney Royal AgShows […]

Gold for World Wife Carrying Champions

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BY MEREDITH BLAIR Singleton born Elliott Earnshaw and partner Adelaide Taylor have made Australia proud winning two gold medals at the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland last week. Elliott and Adelaide were both the international sprint competition winners and team competition winners. The pair were the 2023 Champions of the Australian Wife Carrying Titles […]

Elinor Bowman To Represent Singleton All The Way To Sydney

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The last time a Singleton woman was crowned NSW Showgirl was in 1965 when Roslyn Sylvester took the title, but Singleton’s Elinor Bowman could be Singleton’s next winner, recently winning at the Zone 5 Final in Lithgow. Young Woman of the Year Elinor Bowman was selected as the winner alongside Alana Wade from Gulgong, with […]

Elinor Named Singleton Show Young Woman 2023

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Elinor Bowman expressed excitement and gratitude after she was named Singleton Show Young Woman 2023 on Saturday night and is looking forward to taking on the role with both hands when the event begins today (Friday). Singleton Show is now in its 149th year and will be celebrated in full today and tomorrow, September 22 […]

Singleton Show to Showcase the Best of the Best

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Cattle, poultry, horses, produce, woodwork, flowers, photography, artwork, baking, cake decorating, craft, woodchopping, tent pegging, post splitting, you name it and you will see it at Singleton Show. Add to that working dog trials, lawnmower racing, whip cracking, the demolition derby and of course fireworks and you have yourself at Singleton Show 2023. Sideshow Alley […]

Bickie Bonus

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BY DI SNEDDON

When The Hunter River Times decided to run an online decorated biscuit competition in honour of Singleton Show, the Northern Agricultural Association Ladies Committee where quick to jump on board.

Show winners are grinners

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BY DI SNEDDON

Singleton couldn’t have its annual show but that’s not to say there weren’t some worthy winners.

Mark turns toward 2021 show

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Although it won’t be showcased in the Singleton show this year, Mark Wallace’s artful creation, hewn from a tree burl, did get it’s time to shine in Gresford show earlier this year. 

All lined up with nowhere to go

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BY DI SNEDDON

Crochet and knitting have been part of Noeleen Bendeich’s life for as long as she can remember and ribbons at Singleton Show are just par for the course.

Chess Set was ready to take out a prize

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BY DI SNEDDON

The Farrelly family have been regular entrants in Singleton Show for many years so when they heard it wasn’t going ahead in 2020, they understood why but that’s not to say they weren’t a little sad.