THE year might have started with a bang on Sydney Harbour, but in Junee it was the official ceremony where Willow Park was named after the legendary Laurie Daley.
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However, the big names in Junee didn't stop with harness racing superstars announced as guests at the Junee Paceway for the traditional Australia Day celebrations which kicked off with several residents honoured for their contributions.
One of the biggest stories to come out of Junee was the viral video of a man's daughter at the wheel of his modified competition ute with many locals getting behind the video.
Meanwhile Jason Flagg and his family were taking to the road walking from Wagga to Bardmedman to raise funds for Motor Neuron Disease. Mr Flagg's fundraising efforts started well with a donation from the GEO Group for more than $400.
There was a massive outpouring of sympathy after the death of local Kathleen Hargraves, a woman described as "quintessentially Junee".
A Southern Cross reader claimed that 'drugs were rife' in Junee with police appealing for locals to share any information they knew about the allegations.
The "stars" of British reality television program found themselves in for a fright when they spent a night in the famous Monte Cristo homestead.
For the Easter long-weekend hundreds of Renaults made their way to Junee for the Renault 4CV Register's bi-annual meet up, with a guest from the American Renault owners club making their way all the way from Tennessee for it.
Three-year-old Bailon Johnson made his way from Junee to Newcastle, but it wasn't for fun with the young boy requiring significant medical care.
Fortunately he was helped with the Junee community responding to a crowd-funding appeal started by his father Randy to support the medical treatment.
Ahead of the Junee Show, Junee's Showgirl committee called on local ladies to join the competition to find the shire's next representative.
Junee Railway Workshops are usually working on something big and it's no exception when it comes to refurbishing 48 Class locomotives with the engines briefly "flying" while their bogies were replaced.
NSW senators Bill Heffernan and Fiona Nash said 'farmers wouldn't be fooled' by the now-failed takeover attempt of Graincorp by Archer Daniels Midland.
Up to 26 employees in Junee were left without cash in their pocket after El Zorro Transport collapsed owing businesses millions of dollars.
When Keith Jenkins called it quits after 42 years working for the railway, it was the end of a long history of 150 years of the Jenkins family with the railway.