Lifestyle coverage
Animal Welfare
THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals NSW (RSPCA) and the Animal Welfare League NSW (AWL), will receive $12.5 million towards enforcement and compliance activities that provide protection for cats, dogs, livestock and other animals. The RSPCA NSW will receive $11.3 million, and the AWL NSW will receive $1.17 million. The funding [...]
Our Community
BYAMEE Support Services in Moree is planning a memorable night of fun and laughter – with just a splash of bawdiness – to raise much-needed funds for the well-known organisation. The Drag and Burlesque Benefit Night, an outrageous cabaret-style show arranged and co-ordinated by Brisbane company Applause Entertainment, will be held at Moree Services Club [...]
Moree on a Plate
MOREE’S big sky sunset lit the celebratory scene for the recent Moree on a Plate Sunset Soiree, held on the picturesque grounds of Moree Plains Museum – the former Lands Office on Frome Street. Guests mingled and relaxed, and enjoyed the perspective of some of Moree’s most iconic Art Deco buildings punctuating the local streetscape. [...]
Wheat Harvest
A WHEAT harvest wouldn’t be the same without a walk back in time to celebrate an agriculture industry that helped shape Australia. The Croppa Creek Classic Harvest will on November 15-16-17 celebrate more than 100 years of automated headers in a paddock at the property, Baroma, owned by the Thompson and Siddins families. The site [...]
Community
THE Moree Sports Health Arts and Education Academy (SHAE) is feeling upbeat after receiving an $1850 grant to purchase a defibrillator, Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan announced today. SHAE received the grant as part of the Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program, aimed at providing funds for clubs around recreation facilities around NSW to purchase [...]
Our Community
WHEN a few young people closely connected to the Moree agriculture industry get together and say they’re going to throw a party to raise a bit of money and hand out a few scholarships, it’s wise to sit up and listen. That’s what happens when some like-minded young aggies go about their business quietly and [...]
Our Community
MORE than $40,000 was raised – with the figure still climbing – when 45 walkers ranging in ages from 16 to 65 walked from Moree to Pallamallawa on Saturday as part of the One Foot Forward initiative. Walkers covered 1290 collective kilometres, raising $40,554.60 along the way for the Black Dog Institute. Event organiser Luke [...]
Tracker Memorial
VISITORS to Moree Police Station will soon be greeted by a remarkable memorial recognising local Aboriginal trackers employed by the New South Wales Police Force between the years 1862 and 1973. The Moree Aboriginal Tracker Wall at the police station’s main entrance aims to build greater recognition of the important role trackers played in policing [...]
Lifestyle
THE Australian Koala Foundation has announced a special book-signing event at their Save the Koala Shop in Warialda on November, 5. The exclusive event will feature well-loved Inverell local Merlene Konz, who will host a signing for her children’s book, Kassie the Baby Koala & the Bush Telegraph. Authored and illustrated by Merlene, the book [...]
QantasLink
MOREE Plains Shire residents and visitors and tourists to the region have the services of Qantas for another five years, with the announcement QantasLink flights have been locked in until March, 2030. Expressions of interest were called in June for the operation of regulated air routes between Sydney and Moree, with Transport for NSW and [...]
