Manny Pottinger, an icon of Conargo Shire and surrounding districts, has been honoured in a renewable energy project.

Someva Renewables, a specialist renewable energy developer operating in Australia, has named its local project, Pottinger Energy Park.

This history of one of Hay’s founding fathers was penned by Ian Beissel.

A former Hay student, Ian entered this tale in The Riverine Grazier’s 150th anniversary writing competition, taking out the major prize in the open category.

Read on to learn all about George Butterworth.

Carrie and Graham Matthews are the fresh-faced, always smiling, happy duo that own Hills Corner Store. A lot of people may think Hills Corner Store is just a shop like any other. They would be wrong.

This is their story.

Steph Cattanach is one of those rare people. The vibe that you feel from her, is just something that cannot be put into words. A more cynical person would question if she is real; she has that unworldly quality. The honest truth is - she is as real as you can get.

Earnest, with the very best of intentions, a person with a journey, and a person who has the most sincere and wonderful intentions for all around her. A person, who I would truly aspire to be. Many would know her journey, or part of it.

Robert Ronald’s work “The Riverina - People and Places” is an important record of the settlement of the region around Hay. It was first printed in Melbourne in 1960 by EW Cheshire Pty Ltd. Robert’s younger brother agreed to underwrite the printing costs, after publishers showed little interest in the tome, however the first print run of 1000 copies quickly sold out, and a second print run was organised

Almost fifty years later Robert’s sons Wilson and Hugh worked with The Riverine Grazier’s Rod McCully to reproduce the book in 2004, with the inclusion of a forward, penned by the brothers.

In the book, Robert writes about explorers Oxley, Throsby, Currie and Ovens, Hume and Hovell, Mitchell and Charles Sturt, and records the early settlements along the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, Edward and Murray Rivers and the Yanko Creek.

71 years ago Marg Beckwith, then five-year-old Margaret Short stepped off the good ship Dorsetshire onto Australian soil at Sydney Harbour.

She was accompanied by her parents and little brother Jim, aged two, and the family had travelled from Scotland as ’10 pound Poms’. Marg was born in 1947 in Stirling, a small city in central Scotland, within 50 kilometers of Glasgow and Edinbugh.

Marg shares her vivid memories of the trip across the ocean to sunny Australia.

The fate of teenage bushranger William Brookman was sealed when he joined the gang of Jerry Duce and held up a race meeting at Mossgiel Station, near Willandra, and shot a police officer at Booligal.

Learn how this prize-winning Uardry 0.1 Merino Ram ended up gracing Australia’s 1938 shilling - the story of the Shilling Ram.

Learn how living in Hay in the 1880s contributed to Joseph Furphy penning the Australian classic “Such is Life”

Internationally renown wildlife artists Chris McClelland lives and works in Hay, giving visitors a unique opportunity to mee an artist of such high calibre.

In its heyday Hay was a bustling regional centre and boasted a variety of long gone industries that serviced the district. Breweries and malt houses were established in the late 1800s and by all accounts were in fierce competition with each other.

Arguably one of Hay’s finest and best known photographers Irene Brown, known as Rene, was born in Hay in 1908.

Hay Historical Society has a vast collection of Rene’s images and has collated them in the book “Rene - Photographer of Hay.”

Armed stand-offs over establishing the town of Hay NSW, pulling down buildings as they were being constructed, and shallow graves for the unfortunate are all tales from the town’s early history, when Lang’s Crossing Place was the domain of a few determined people.

The Hay Football Club was founded in 1876 at a meeting at the Royal Hotel. Read about the history of AFL in Hay, from 1876 to the premiership year of 2023.

This story is about Billy Curtis. Billy or Bunter as he is affectionately known had a great playing record after starting with the Magpies as a 19 year old in 1958. It was a time when Rugby League was played by hard men. Men who were physically hard men who did not have the skills of today's player. They were men who were as tough as teak, no sooking, just took what was dished out in the 'Era of the Biff’. The game was not policed as much then. There were no videos, and head high tackles were good old stiff arms. Billy said to get hit with a stiff arm tackle was like running into a pick handle.

In the early years of the settlements of Hay, Booligal and Balranald midwives were often the only form of medical care, and the townships have hosted a variety of private hospitals throughout the years.

This is an interesting glimpse into the care of women and babies in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Driving back and forth from Deniliquin to Hay over the years, one’s imagination would surely be ignited by the legend of the Headless Horseman.

Legend tells of the Headless Horseman riding the saltbush plain of the Cobb Highway on his grey steed, striking fear and often terror into the very hearts of the drovers moving their stock.

It’s a simple cross of nails mounted on a small wooden plaque. But the story behind the cross and how it came to be a powerful symbol of peace and reconciliation after the Second World War is a poignant one.

The cross is believed to be a Coventry Cross of Nails, made from nails salvaged from Coventry Cathedral in England after it was destroyed by German bombing in November 1940.

It was discovered at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Hay, NSW, and gifted to the Australian War Memorial.

Robert Rice Howard was born in 1833, and was Sydney’s State

Executioner, the hangman, for 30 years.

Howard was considered of dashing appearance before an unfortunate accident disfigured him in he late 1860s when a horse kicked him in the face. This badly disfigured his nose and ruined his taxi business and he turned to drink. The most unpopular job in the city was the role of Hangman.

Nosey Bob, as he was now referred to, assumed the role between the years 1873 through to 1903 and during his time he hanged 64 people.

John William Alexander Jackson born on 13 September 1897 on 'Glengower' Station at Gunbar, and is the youngest Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross.