Lifestyle coverage
The Golden Triangle
IN 1936, Mallawa Amateur Picnic Race Club president Charles Jardine, a former amateur Australian heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Games representative turned western districts sheep grazier, won the opening race as an owner at Mallawa with Spear Loch. On Saturday, his 91-year-old daughter, Dorothy Wiseman, arrived unheralded at the Mallawa races to relive the memories [...]
King’s Birthday
ARMIDALE’S Cyril ‘Jimmy’ Tanner and Jan Lemon from Glen Innes have received a Medal of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours List while Gwydir Shire’s long-serving general manager, Max Eastcott – who retires in July after 24 years’ service – has been awarded a Public Service Medal. Mr Tanner received an OAM [...]
Our Community
GETTING up at dawn to put on mud-boots and pour concrete when there’s a frost on the ground isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. But on Thursday morning, when the thermometer nudged two degrees and the thermos struggled to keep the damn tea hot, the boys from O’Neill Concreting were at Jellicoe Park doing their bit [...]
Regional News
A $15 million funding boost for not-for-profit charity the Royal Flying Doctor Service will support people in regional, rural and remote New South Wales to access healthcare. The additional funding will be delivered as part of the 2025-26 NSW Budget. Operating for 97 years, the RFDS is a key partner of NSW Health and employs [...]
East Coast Tour
THINGS changed for KICKED-IN BICKIE TIN frontman Shaun Mills when he volunteered to help clean up after the devastating 2022 Moree floods. A chance meeting with a flood victim who was already doing it tough before the rains came, inspired Mills to compose KICKED-IN BICKIE TIN’s latest single, Deep End, which explores themes of gratitude [...]
Regional Tourism
AN ambitious new exhibition will be exclusively shown at the Tamworth Regional Gallery from September. TRG is partnering with the Art Gallery of New South Wales to present Bush Lines, an exhibition featuring the works of significant Australian artists from across the nation. Curated by Gomeroi man Liam Keenan, assistant curator of First Nations art, [...]
Bowel Cancer
JUNE is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, and eligible people are urged to take the bowel screening test. Only two out of every five people in New South Wales who receive the kit, take the test. If caught early, bowel cancer can be successfully treated in more than 90 per cent of cases. The National Bowel [...]
Moree Rockers
NEWCASTLE radio host Jack Hodgins is seeking past Moree musicians who may have been part of the Hoadley’s Battle of the Sounds competition, which ran across Australia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mr Hodgins is writing a book documenting the iconic contest – Australia’s biggest music competition at the time. Musicians from Moree [...]
Country Music
THE search begins for Australia’s next Toyota Star Maker, with entries open today for the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious country music talent search. Crowned in January, during the Toyota 54th Tamworth Country Music Festival, the 46th Toyota Star Maker will join an impressive suite of alumni including Keith Urban, Lee Kernaghan, James Blundell, Travis [...]
Our Community
MOREE Lions Club is seeking new members to help man their famous barbecue and raise money for local charities, community groups and organisations. Club members will be in their usual spot at Moree Markets tomorrow, June 1, halfway down the Jellicoe Park pathway, with early morning bacon and egg sandwiches. By mid-morning, they’ll be grilling [...]
