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Roads Network
A pothole and road repair blitz will soon start across regional New South Wales, including pavement renewal and resurfacing on the New England and Hume highways. Fast-tracked funding will increase state road maintenance funding in the regions to $1.25 billion this financial year, with key works already underway. The investment will deliver safer roads, from [...]
Skills Week
A dedicated Agriculture Trade Apprenticeship will be a vital piece of the workforce shortage puzzle, according to the National Farmers’ Federation. NFF President David Jochinke gave an update on the Ag Trade Apprenticeship at the official launch of National Skills Week this morning in Canberra. “National Skills Week is a wonderful celebration of the hard-working [...]
Agriculture
THE State and Federal Governments will jointly invest $43.2 million to support farmers to strengthen their drought resilience and climate adaptation, as drought continues to impact regional communities across New South Wales. Delivered through Phase 2 of the Farm Business Resilience Program, the funding will support farmers to access subsidised learning and development opportunities that [...]
2025 Moree Cup
MOREE Race Club has been floored with nominations for the 2025 Agri Storage and Logistics Moree Cup meeting on Sunday, with 155 entries across eight races. The Moree Cup, this year sponsored by Agri Storage and Logistics, has received 32 nominations, including last year’s winner Macleay from the Jane Clement stable and Stirling Osland’s 2022 [...]
Sport
OVER the next two weekends, Moree will play in nine grand-finals across two junior and senior football codes – possibly 11 if Moree ladies league tackle team can beat Dungowan at Gunnedah on Saturday and Moree Giants’ under-14s boys league win against Uralla at Guyra the same day. Add to the mix, Moree Bulls’ under-16s [...]
2025 Moree Cup
WATCHING Gunsynd become a legend more than 50 years ago was the start of it for Peter Hobday. And when he was taken to Goondiwindi as a 12-year-old whippersnapper in 1973 to watch Gunsynd parade, Hobday was smitten. The racing game took hold, and Hobday has never looked back. He loves the game, loves the [...]
Regional Sport
THE clubhouse at Armidale Golf Club just got a lot more comfortable, thanks to a brand-new air-conditioning unit. Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan announced a $72,000 grant from the Community Building Partnership program, enabled the club to replace the outdated and failing unit with a new, energy efficient system. Mr Moylan said securing the [...]
Agriculture
NSW Farmers’ has welcomed news that six new detector dog handlers have joined Australia’s border security team to protect the nation from biosecurity threats. On Tuesday, Federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins announced the new recruits had joined a team of more than 50 handlers and their dogs in searching for biosecurity risk material at international [...]
Regional Health
NARRABRI Shire Council has expressed disappointment at the lack of progress towards restoring services at Wee Waa Hospital. This follows a public meeting convened by Member for Barwon Roy Butler with senior representatives from Hunter New England Health and NSW Health on Monday night in Wee Waa. Despite strong community attendance at a number of [...]
Our Community
ONE of Moree’s best-kept secrets – the town’s amazing generosity – was put on show last Friday night when 250 people attended Gather for Gwydir at idyllic Tarrawingee Farm, west of Moree. “Overwhelming” was the only way Gwydir Industries board president Bill Crawford could describe the event, which raised in excess of $325,000 for Moree’s [...]
