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EARLY bird tickets are now on sale for the 2025 Australian Celtic Festival, giving festival-goers the chance to secure discounted weekend passes to the vibrant celebration of Celtic heritage at Glen Innes. The festival will be held May 1-4 at the Australian Standing Stones National Celtic Monument. This year’s Festival will celebrate the Celtic nations [...]
Moree on a Plate
RENOWNED food writer Roberta Muir loves making it easy for everyone to explore new cuisines, ingredients, wines and places. And the Moree on a Plate Food and Wine Festival is thrilled the community will soon gain from her valuable knowledge and skills, with the cookbook author and gourmet tour leader announced as the celebrity presenter [...]
Movie Night
AFTER 20 years of presenting films from around the world, Moree’s Rising Sun Film Society will this month screen a film much closer to home. Moree film-maker Merri-May Gill, from Two Dog Films, premiered her masterpiece, WHIP, REV & BARREL at Pallamallawa War Memorial Hall in November to rave reviews. Now it’s Moree’s turn – [...]
Australia Day
THEY came, they saw and they ran. Hundreds of visitors joined hundreds of locals in Moree last September for a jog around town – and the event now known as Run the Plains was off and running. At Moree Plains Shire Council’s Jellicoe Park Australia Day awards ceremony on Sunday, Run the Plains was named [...]
MAAC Update
MOREE Plains Shire Council advises that following essential upgrades and repairs at Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre, the program and wellness pools will reopen today, Saturday, February 1 from 8am. The facility has been closed since January 7, due to a failure in ageing equipment in the plant room. Moree Plains Shire Council general manager, Natalia [...]
Australia Day
FROM Hyderabad, Telangana, in the southern part of India, to the black-soil plains in north-western New South Wales, Australia – the journey has been exciting and at-times daunting for Moree’s newest citizens, Mirza and Arshia Baig. For Mirza and Arshia, and their five-year-old son, also named Mirza, the final step of that journey took place at [...]
Aged Care
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan is better-known for calling the shots – but during a recent visit to Whiddon Moree, he was rumoured to be calling bingo. Mr Moylan found time in his busy schedule to drop by the residential aged-care facility for morning tea, a game of bingo and a chat with residents [...]
Back to School
AS kids across the north-west and New England get ready to return to school, Asthma Australia urges parents to update their children’s Asthma Action Plan. Just like packing a school hat, this simple step helps ensure a child’s asthma is well-managed and helps teachers, coaches, and caregivers know exactly what to do if a flare-up [...]
Australia Day
ERIC Dumas has the weight of the world on his shoulders – the hefty weight of power-lifting world titles and trophies. And he shouldered yet another title at the weekend when named Moree Plains Shire Sportsperson of the Year. Mr Dumas was unable to attend the Australia Day awards ceremony at Jellicoe Park, but said [...]
Australia Day
MOREE running machine Kate McDonald etched another entry on her CV – a burgeoning work in progress – when named Young Sportsperson of the Year at the 2025 Australia Day awards ceremony on Sunday. The Moree Midget completed an exceptional year – not only at running and cross-country events, but also in the swimming pool [...]
