31 Dec 99 | World 400m Champion Cathy Freeman again won the hearts of the Devonport crowd when she flew home to victory in the women's 200m handicap last night.
31 Dec 99 | Matthew Gilmore beaten into second place last night. Victorian Stephen Pate proved why he is the most successful carnival rider of all time with victory last night in the $5000 Devonport Wheelrace.
31 Dec 99 | Doug Towns stopped driving pegs into the deep green grass at Longford racecourse yesterday, scratched his head, then thought for a bit.
31 Dec 99 | For the first time all of Launceston's emergency services will be housed under the one roof tonight as a precaution against possible Y2K problems.
31 Dec 99 | More police will be patrolling trouble announced a change of strategy in response to community concern over street bashings.
31 Dec 99 | Tasmania is one of the best prepared and safest places in the world for the year 2000, Premier Jim Bacon said yesterday.
30 Dec 99 | Senior police are missing the point when they say Launceston does not need extra police, and that there is nothing they can do about unreported bashings, Launceston MLC Don Wing said yesterday.
30 Dec 99 | With four live bands, a spectacular $10,000 fireworks display, exploding millenium bugs and 25m-high helium-filled balloons, New Year's Eve celebrations in Ulverstone are tipped to be huge.
30 Dec 99 | A crewman aboard a Papua New Guinean yacht went overboard and several crew members on other boats suffered injuries as heavy weather battered the Sydney-to-Hobart fleet yesterday.
30 Dec 99 | Burnie's Emma de Bomford continued her domination of recent carnivals with victory last night in the $5000 Devonport Women's Gift.
30 Dec 99 | Taking out the 52nd Melbourne-to- Devonport Yacht Race was a huge thrill for Launceston's Sailmaker crew but the conditions they had to battle were far from pleasant. Sailmaker's skipper Peter Hesketh has sailed Bass Strait seven times and rated the conditions of the past few days as some of the worst.
30 Dec 99 | Taking out the 52nd Melbourne-to- Devonport Yacht Race was a huge thrill for Launceston's Sailmaker crew but the conditions they had to battle were far from pleasant.
30 Dec 99 | Burnie's Emma de Bomford continued her domination of recent carnivals with victory last night in the $5000 Devonport Women's Gift.
30 Dec 99 | Senior police are missing the point when they say Launceston does not need extra police, and that there is nothing they can do about unreported bashings, Launceston MLC Don Wing said yesterday.
30 Dec 99 | With four live bands, a spectacular $10,000 fireworks display, exploding millennium bugs and 25m-high helium- filled balloons, New Year's Eve celebrations in Ulverstone are tipped to be huge.
30 Dec 99 | A crewman aboard a Papua New Guinean yacht went overboard and several crew members on other boats suffered injuries as heavy weather battered the Sydney-to-Hobart fleet yesterday.
30 Dec 99 | Speaking from a friend's house in Devonport, the 26-year-old said she preferred to talk about her return to Devonport for the Christmas carnivals rather than her recent marriage to Nike executive Alexander Bodecker.
29 Dec 99 | Scott Crocker, partnered by Longford club-mates Dick Crocker and Ron Panton, and Rodney Murray, from Scottsdale, won the major portion of the $1400 prize-money at the Longford Invitation Fours tournament yesterday.
29 Dec 99 | Hobart teenager Stephen Rossendell promised to win a big wheelrace this summer, and he lived up to that at the Silverdome last night.
29 Dec 99 | Heavy winds and rough water in Bass Strait forced The Cat back to Melbourne yesterday.
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