School students took their push for change to the streets during September.
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An estimated 1000 people marched through Wagga's CBD during the protest, demanding government action on climate change.
Though attended by many adults also, the climate strike was primarily led by students.
The Department of Education had warned in the lead-up that students risked suspensions for attending the strike, which was held between noon and 2pm.
During the month, tensions continued to simmer in the Kildare Catholic College community after the departure of principal Rod Whelan, with parents demanding answers.
The controversial SBS television program Struggle Street geared up for a return to our screens, but this time it shone a light on the difficulties facing some Riverina residents.
Human remains were found in a shallow grave in Gerogery, where police were searching for suspected murder victim William Chaplin.
Police had searched an Olympic Highway property over five days, with divers called to inspect two dams.
Residents and developers shared very different views on how land at the corner of Murray and Docker streets should look in the future after a proposal was put forward to rezone land that is currently used by a community group.
Also during the month, a serial sex offender involved in the abduction of Wagga woman Janine Balding, who was raped and murdered in 1988, will spend another two years in jail despite serving his sentence.
The state of NSW had applied to the Supreme Court for a two-year continuing detention order for Wayne Lindsay Wilmot.
The 46-year-old was due to be released on June 26 after serving a 20-year jail term for other kidnapping and sexual assault offences against multiple victims.
A city institution - the Wagga Art Society - celebrated its 70th anniversary with a special exhibition.
Liberated from its Small Street studios for the first time, the artists unveiled their works on the walls of the Wagga Art Gallery.
As September continued, influenza continued to take a toll, with 2019 dubbed the region's "worst ever" flu season.
Also this month, the state's peak anti-corruption watchdog found insufficient evidence to support corruption claims levelled at former Wagga City Council general manager Alan Eldridge.
Wagga's councillors voted to sack Mr Eldridge at an extraordinary council meeting in May 2017 amid allegations he had failed to declare a pecuniary interest.
Council's general manager Peter Thompson said the Independent Commission Against Corruption had notified the council that the investigation was complete.
"It has concluded that available evidence was insufficient to support findings of serious or systemic corrupt conduct," Mr Thompson said in a statement.
Campaigners also celebrated in September as amendments in the NSW upper house cleared the way to decriminalise abortion.
Despite NSW being gripped by the "worst drought in living memory", the region's primary producers put on a brave face and headed to Henty.
A crowd of 55,000 flocked to the "agribusiness supermarket" that is the annual Henty Machinery Field Days.
Held between September 17 and 19, the 56th annual field days featured 14 kilometres of outdoor shop fronts on more than 1200 sites belonging to 830 exhibitors.
Visitors came from every state, with hay, tillage, compact tractors and stock handling equipment this year proving particularly popular.
With many regional cereal and oil seed crops due to be cut for hay in coming days mowers, rakes and tedders were at the forefront of inquiry and sales.
Field days chairman Nigel Scheetz said crowds were above expectations considering the difficult season.
The drought has lingered and the Bureau of Meteorology is predicting this summer will be hotter and drier than average.