Lifestyle coverage
Long Weekend
WITH the Australia Day weekend including a public holiday on Monday, Moree Plains Shire Council advises all residents of the following changes to services and facilities. Everyone is invited to attend Australia Day celebrations on Sunday, January 26, at Jellicoe Park from 8am, where citizenship ceremonies will be conducted and Australia Day award recipients announced. [...]
Regional News
A free event in Armidale next week will bring some of Australia’s best skateboarders to town, providing an unforgettable experience for the community. Following the success of Australia’s Olympic skateboarding campaign, which resulted in two gold medals, interest in the sport is at an all-time high. The Rumble Roadshow aims to harness this enthusiasm by [...]
Regional News
THE Touriandi Lodge in Bingara is now a lot safer for residents and workers after an upgrade to the facility’s flooring. Touriandi Lodge officially opened in early 1993 and provides care for elderly community members, with a volunteer board overseeing its operations, making it a true community-run organisation. Its newly-renovated floors came through a $37,000 [...]
Regional News
THE annual Bundarra Show is on Saturday-Sunday, February 1-2, and attendees will notice a fresh look thanks to a $368,866 grant used to put the finishing touches on the showground’s new facilities. The showground has undergone numerous renovations in the last four years and the latest grant from the NSW Government’s Crown Reserve Improvement Fund [...]
Australia Day
NEW citizens will be welcomed to Australia at citizenship ceremonies across the country on January 26 – an important part of Australian Day celebrations. Moree Plains Shire Council mayor, Susannah Pearse, conducts citizenship ceremonies regularly, but welcoming new citizens to Moree on Australia Day holds special significance. Australian citizenship symbolises unity as a nation and [...]
Pitch2Grow Moree
INNOVATIVE concept Pitch2Grow is calling for expressions of interest from people in the Moree, Narrabri and Inverell districts. The call-out is for entrepreneurs who have new business ideas, products or services, or a new enterprise they can promote in a pitch format. Pitch2Grow, a University of New England Smart Region Incubator project supported by the [...]
Local History
MOREE Plains Shire Council and Big Sky Libraries has published the first edition of Stories of Our Town, a Moree local studies journal. Stories of Our Town, a Moree Community Library publication edited by local studies and digitisation officer Adam Mitchell, is available in print or online in PDF format, and features snippets of history [...]
Regional News
FROM shearing sheep in the outback to judging the best lamingtons at country fairs, Brad Farmer has spent the last 13 years enjoying his role as an Australia Day Ambassador. Known as Australia’s beach ambassador, a conservationist, advocate and author, Mr Farmer has been appointed as Armidale’s Australia Day Ambassador for 2025. The best-selling author [...]
Moree Bowls
THERE will be $20,000 prize money offered when Moree Services Club hosts the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament on Saturday-Sunday, January 25-26 – a relatively new concept focused on men’s health as well as generating interest in the sport among the youth of Moree. The men’s fours club tournament will bring bowlers from across New [...]
MAAC Update
FOLLOWING the closure of the pools at the Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre (MAAC) on Tuesday 8 January 2025, Moree Plains Shire Council hopes to see the facility open to the public by next week. The gym and café remain open during the repair period. In a community update regarding replacement of failed equipment, council said [...]
