Lifestyle coverage
Tamworth CMF
FOUR-TIME Grammy Award winner Keith Urban and the Tamworth Country Music Festival on Monday unveiled Ethan Calway as the inaugural recipient of the Keith Urban Rising Star Scholarship – a major new initiative spotlighting Australia’s next global country export. The announcement follows the launch of the groundbreaking initiative earlier this year, which generated widespread excitement [...]
2026 Anzac Day
AS Anzac Day draws closer, members of Moree RSL Sub-Branch are busy raising money to help support veterans and their families. Sub-branch members John Tramby and Murray Shaw were last week at Brooker Trading Co selling raffle tickets and Anzac merchandise, and this week will be in Balo Square Shopping Centre. Raffle tickets are $2 [...]
Greyhounds As Pets
GREYHOUNDS As Pets NSW has hosted the most successful adoption event in its history as part of the 2026 National Adoption Day. The event, held at the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney’s Moore Park, saw a record mark for dogs finding new homes. A total of 47 greyhounds left the event with their new families, 41 [...]
2026 Moree Show
ELLY Byriell was crowned 2026 Moree Show Society Young Woman on April 11 and is looking forward to the next 12 months representing the Moree Plains Shire. The 23-year-old University of New England student is currently studying a Bachelor of Agriculture and Bachelor of Business. She said being named Moree Show Society Young Woman is [...]
Lawn Bowls
BOWLERS from Warialda, Bingara and Narrabri arrived in Moree Saturday morning to play in the Travelling Bowlers’ social lawn-bowls competition at Moree Services Club – and every team was a winner. Moree Services Club Travelling Bowlers secretary Michael Ivanov said the competition is anything but, with the eventual winner decided by an all-important hat-draw at [...]
Happy Birthday!
MUCH-LOVED Narrabri resident Myra Smith will celebrate her 100th birthday today, Friday, April 17, surrounded by family, friends and her community at Whiddon Robert Young. Born in 1926, Myra has lived a life grounded in kindness, resilience, and connection. From working as a dental assistant in her early years to dedicating three decades volunteering with [...]
Regional Tourism
THE countdown is on for the 2026 Australian Celtic Festival, with Glen Innes Severn Council confirming preparations are well underway for one of regional Australia’s most iconic cultural celebrations. Glen Innes Highlands is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for a festival that brings together culture, heritage and community in a vibrant and uniquely local [...]
Food and Wine Festival
PALLAMALLAWA couple Rob and Susie Long are long-time exhibitors at the Moree on a Plate Festival. It was nearly 30 years ago when they first started nutting out ways to capitalise on their then-newly purchased parcel of land on the fertile banks of the Gwydir River. While not vast enough for broadacre farming, but boasting [...]
Our Community
WHEN Moree RSL Sub-Branch needed a hand pouring a small concrete slab for specialised seating at Max Wales Memorial Park, branch president Jeff Biddle knew who to call. Mr Biddle wasn’t expecting the work or materials for free – far from it. The Moree sub-branch was prepared to pay for the work, but again the [...]
Regional Tourism
LOCAL Government NSW will deliver its flagship 2026 Destination and Visitor Economy Conference to Maitland on May 27-28-29. The highly coveted NSW Top Tourism Town Awards will also be presented as part of the program, with Moree and Mungindi in the running for their respective NRMA People’s Choice categories. Public voting is open until Sunday, [...]
