Regional coverage
GEGHA Takes Shape
MOREE businesses and members of the community are invited to meet the team behind the Good Earth Green Hydrogen and Ammonia project, a major plant construction planned west of Moree, with a chief purpose to have local businesses and contractors engaged. A meet-the-project session will be held at Social Co House on Balo Street on [...]
Gone Fishin’
FISHING clubs across the north-west are urged to lodge applications for the next round of Recreational Fishing Trust Grants announced today. There will be $5 million available for fishing clubs, community groups and other organisations to run projects which improve and promote recreational fishing in their local area. For the first time, applicants in this [...]
Moree Crime
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has expressed disgust over the spate of break-and-enters in Moree. He has called on the State Government to urgently address the shortage of police in the region and review the way 10- to 14-year-old offenders are dealt with in court. “Like everyone in our community I am disgusted by [...]
Operation Mongoose
FOUR people have been arrested on a total of 20 offences as part of a joint cross border operation at Boggabilla and Goondiwindi with NSW Police and Queensland Police. Operation Regional Mongoose is a high-visibility police operation to tackle serious property-related crime, committed predominately by young offenders. Western Region commander, assistant commissioner Andrew Holland, said [...]
Regional Sport
FOLLOWING the success of recent workshops in the central west of New South Wales, an interactive child safety workshop will be held in Tamworth next week to help local sporting organisations keep children safe from harm and abuse in sport. The NSW Office of Sport has partnered with the Office of the Children’s Guardian to [...]
The Cup
MANY years ago, before Vintage Crop changed everything in 1993, a popular system often found the winner of the race that stops a nation. But Dermott Weld’s Irish raider, and subsequent overseas invaders, changed everything. Within a matter of about three minutes and 23 seconds, the race that stops a nation became the race that [...]
Art Exhibition
GALLERY owner Gig Moses is overjoyed to bring award-winning artist Katie Wyatt back to Moree for the official launch of her solo exhibition, Botanical Horizons, at The Moree Gallery on Thursday, November 14. “Following a series of successful exhibitions during the past 10 years, I’m thrilled to welcome Katie back to The Moree Gallery,” Gig [...]
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 [...]
Regional News
THE draft Namoi and Peel Unregulated Rivers water sharing plan is now on public display, and the NSW Government is inviting the community to have its say. The plan sets out clear rules for fair and sustainable water sharing among water users and the environment across the region for the next decade. That includes setting [...]
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 [...]
