Politics coverage
Christmas Races
TOOWOOMBA apprentice Chloe Lowe brought her incredible strike-rate over the border on Saturday with a winning double at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Christmas twilight races. Lowe, 22, has ridden 48 winners despite only hitting the racetrack in March this year, and currently leads the Queensland country jockeys’ premiership with 28 wins. Her Moree [...]
Christmas Races
PROBLEM child Irish Arthur repaid Inverell trainer Brodie Fenton’s hard work and patience with an impressive win in the 950m Elders Insurance and Boland Petroleum Maiden Handicap at Moree on Saturday. Ace hoop Clayton Gallagher settled Irish Arthur ($3.40) in fourth spot behind the leaders before peeling three- and four-wide on the home turn. The [...]
Sport
MOREE golfers Kevin Moore and Gus Baillie last week played their way to a top-five position in the KENO Let’s Play Ambrose State Final at Bonville Golf Resort, Coffs Harbour from an original field numbering more than 6000 pairs. Competitors played in club qualifying rounds and regional finals across New South Wales over several months [...]
Christmas Races
TRACK specialist Lesgo Don relished being “home away from home” on Saturday with an all-the-way win at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel twilight Christmas races. And the Ridge Wilson-trained gelding strengthened part-owner Jack Forman’s reputation as a horse-trader when journeyman jockey Georgina McDonnell led from pillar to post on the four-year-old. Forman, now living [...]
Northern Tablelands
Earlier this week, elevated levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) were detected in Warialda’s water supply. PFAS are chemicals used to make products which resist heat, stains, grease and water. PFAS chemicals remain in the environment, including water and soil, for a long time. PFAS chemicals can build up in the body and take a [...]
Sport
AFTER five years away from competition, 60-year-old Moree powerlifter Eric Dumas claimed Gold at the 2024 World and Commonwealth Masters Powerlifting Championships in South Africa in October. And, he says, Moree PCYC has a lot to do with his success. Dumas, a Moree dentist, won squat and deadlift events and amassed Masters’ 3 total points [...]
Christmas Races
ARMIDALE trainer Jane Clement’s incredible run of winners is set to continue on Saturday, when she saddles three live chances at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel twilight Christmas races. The six-race meeting, traditionally Moree Race Club’s biggest social event of the year, has drawn strong acceptances. Clement has trained 24 winners since the 2024-2025 [...]
Festive Cheer
AUSSIE country music artist Will Day will entertain Christmas revellers after the last race is decided at the 2024 Moree Ag Supplies and Steel twilight Christmas races on Saturday. Day, who recently released his new single, My Kinda Crowd, will find his kind of crowd at the night function. Day is a regular at some [...]
Local Government
Cr Kelly James was twice called out for acts of disorder by mayor Susannah Pearse, who directed police to be called under clause 15.20 of the Code of Meeting Practice. The mayor defended her actions, which followed a day of drama in council chambers. Cr Pearse said she and deputy mayor Wayne Tighe last Wednesday [...]
Local Government
THE Country Mayors Association of NSW executive board and members have welcomed the release of the NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee report, Ability of Local Government to fund infrastructure and Services. Association chairman, Temora Shire mayor Rick Firman said financial sustainability is consistently a top priority of rural and regional Councils in NSW. “Our submission [...]
