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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics may not have gone to plan, but Border athletes are still smiling as they relive the 2000 Sydney Olympics 20 years on.
Check out some other highlights from the Border region.
Children at a small North East school enjoyed catching up with classmates face to face again on Monday.
The 35 students at Whitfield District Primary School started term four together as part of Victoria's staged return to on-site learning this month.
Experienced Border restaurant owners Jim and Linda Ainsworth say they're "pretty stoked' to have been recognised as among their company's best.
The Ainsworths received a Golden Burrito Award as Mad Mex Franchisee of the Year at the Mad Mex annual conference, which was held as a virtual event because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
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Josh Smith may be battling the toughest opponent he's ever faced, but he's not doing it alone.
The Thurgoona Football Club have rallied behind one of their favourite sons and have raised over $12000 for Josh and his family through the Shave for Smithy fundraiser.
"It's good to know they're there," Smith said.
A 12-year-old Lauren Jackson was perched in front of the television at home in Albury as International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch declared to the world "the winner is Sydney" on September 24, 1993.
She turned to her parents, both national basketball representatives, and said "I'll be there" and it was from that moment an Australian basketballing star was born.
Twenty years on, Jackson still holds the memories made at the 2000 Sydney Olympics close to her heart.
WORKING off printouts and an old calendar, Barnawatha artist Tracy Hancock has produced a giant version of the 1890 painting Shearing the Rams which was unveiled at Corowa.
Measuring 3.6 metres by 2.5 metres the mural is double the size of Tom Roberts' original work which depicts a scene at Brocklesby station north of Corowa.
