June 20 2017

For several weeks we’ve been going through all the historical offerings on eBay wondering what to buy and what to pass on.

Several photographs were seen for sale and interest in them rose until both Deniliquin History in Photos and ourselves realized that the photos selling for $8 and $6.50 apiece (example below) had something wrong.

We discovered that the above as well as several other ones could be looked at for free and even downloaded or printed from the online version of the State Library.

Unfortunately this is a common occurrence across the board as replica photos of events or celebrities are offered across thousands of pages and free applications like GIMP and Blender are sold on eBay for a couple of dollars when people could just download them for free.

So when looking online for historical items, make sure they are either the original item or that you are happy with a replica and check around to see if there is a free, legal version of the same item.

June 19 2017

Fog season has officially arrived and locals are urged to take precautions to ensure no accidents happen on our roads.

Fog lights and low beam headlights should be on to ensure cars are visible to other cars and pedestrians who are out and about in the mornings and evenings.

Readers who visit the local thumbs up/thumbs down groups may have already noticed a rise in reports of drivers driving without the proper precautions and we hope that no readers end up in the Thumbs Down category as some posters can be very descriptive in what they see.

We wish safe travels to all our of our readers, their families and their friends.

We have four new poll questions covering a range of topics, we apologise for the delay in polling as coming up with questions was harder than expected.

Our four questions are the following;

1. Does Deniliquin need an EB Games like store?
2. Have we lost too much of our local history?
3. Are you happy with the Ute Muster’s music bill?
4. What is your favourite decade of music?

We ask the question of an EB Games store as many local gamers are going to Echuca to get the latest games and local supplies are dwindling, we have said EB Games like store because somebody might create their own unique store and we’ve added an option to tell local businesses to bulk up their stock of games.

After watching what Deniliquin History in Photos has shown the people over the last year, we’ve become aware that so much history has gone from Deniliquin and much of what has been lost was rarely documented and we’re wondering if people agree.

The music bill for the Ute Muster was recently announced, some are happy with it, some are not happy with it, some will pay attention to other things at the Muster and some just shrug because they don’t go to the Muster so it doesn’t bother them.

The last question asks what is your favourite decade of music, is it the 1950’s where Rock n Roll music came alive, the 1960’s that had so much, the 1970’s where music tastes changed often, the 1980’s that gets rated better by the year, the good old 1990’s that swung from rock to grunge to pop, the pop covered decade that was the 2000’s or this current decade or perhaps you love them all.

Thank you for your patience in waiting for new poll questions, we’ll be back with new questions on June 28.

News of who will be playing at the Ute Muster has been spreading around the country this past week.

Music favourites (in no particular order) like The McClymonts, Lee Kernaghan, Beccy Cole, James Blundell, Sara Stoner are currently on the bill plus many more artists as can be seen in the poster below.

Already there has been concerns that the performers are pretty much the same as past years and several believe prices are too high leading to the usual arguments about pricing, community support and other things.

Organisers did say in their announcement post they have heard the requests for the muster to get back to its roots and people will be partying on the plains like it is 1999 but we will have to see on September 29 and 30 what the final outcome will be, hopefully for everyone it is wins all round.