Healthy Harold’s Colour Run returns to Moree today

JELLICOE Park will come alive today with vibrant colours and community spirit as Healthy Harold makes his long-awaited return to Moree. The lovable character will be at Jellicoe Park from 3.30pm until 5pm as Healthy Harold’s Colour Run returns for its second year, launching the 2025 Healthy Harold Moree Festival of Health. Running from June [...]

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Mungindi Show set to showcase celebrated border town

ONE way drivers, one way. Whether it’s the dodgems along sideshow alley while hooking into a dagwood dog, or the demolition derby in the main arena, the 127th annual Mungindi Agricultural Show on August 8-9-10 will have something for everyone. Mungindi Show Society has made sure all bases are covered at the celebrated border town, [...]

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Community forum in Moree to help shape local health services

RESIDENTS in Moree are invited to help shape the future of health care in the local community at an informal, yet important forum this month. The August 13 forum, at Social Co House, will be hosted by Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network. PHN executive manager of people, finance and operations, Darren [...]

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NSW Police Force welcomes 21 new officers from other jurisdictions

A record number of officers recruited from interstate and New Zealand on Friday started new careers with the NSW Police Force today. Twenty-one officers from Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory, the Australian Federal Police and New Zealand attested at Sydney Olympic Park as part of the Professional Mobility Program. The recruitment program incentivises experienced [...]

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Texas Men’s Shed demonstrates visitor value to local businesses

TEXAS Men’s Shed members are gathering receipts to show just how valuable tourism is to small towns like Texas. A single idea from a Texas Men’s Shed volunteer has shed insight into the pivotal role visitors play in the local economy, with receipts left by campers at the Dumaresq River free campsite showing more than [...]

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BAMM: William Barton and Véronique Serret are Heartland

ARIA Award-winning virtuoso didgeridoo player William Barton and powerhouse violinist Véronique Serret will perform Heartland at Bank Art Museum Moree on Saturday evening, with tickets still available. Born in Kalkadunga country at Mount Isa in Queensland, Barton began learning didgeridoo at around age seven from his uncle, an elder of the Waanyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga peoples. [...]

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Moree talent Kyla-Belle Roberts ready to make ‘remarkable’ debut

AFTER months of extensive statewide auditions, the spotlight is set to shine on 52 of the state’s most gifted student performers, who will lead a cast of more than 5500 New South Wales public school students – including Moree’s very own Kyla-Belle Roberts – at the NSW Schools Spectacular arena show on November 28-28. Kyla-Belle [...]

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BAMM to launch four big exhibitions this week

BANK Art Museum Moree will open four incredible exhibitions at a special launch this Thursday, July 31, featuring works from several well-known Moree artists and artisans. The exhibition, running until September 13, also features Heartland, a live performance by Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton and renowned violinist Véronique Serret on Saturday, August 2. At BAMM’s upstairs [...]

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MACT’s The Sound of Music a brilliant, faultless production not to be missed

ON a balmy Saturday night in 1967, a six-year-old boy and his brother and sisters were dragged along by their parents to the Moree open-air picture theatre to watch The Sound of Music, the Rodgers and Hammerstein big-end-of-town production that was taking the cinematic world by storm. The family ate next door at the Sun [...]

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Beauty Matters goes to France and brings a piece of Paris back to Moree

IT’S a tough gig, but someone has to do it. Being Moree’s leading skin therapist means the odd overseas trip is part of the workload, and Beauty Matters Moree’s Natalee Cook knows the grind only too well. Natalee recently returned home from a two-week working holiday in France as part of a recognition program offered [...]

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