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Police News
A 15-year-old boy has been charged after two cars were stolen from homes in Armidale early Sunday, where a machete was alleged used to threaten two women. Officers attached to New England Police District have been told the women, aged 28 and 29, were asleep in their home in Armidale shortly before 3am, Sunday, February [...]
Education
AS children in the New South Wales Western Division prepare for a return to school next week, the Federation of Canteens in Schools will host a national roundtable later this month to discuss the critical future of school canteens across Australia. With school canteens playing an essential role in supporting children’s health, wellbeing, and sense [...]
Sponsored Content
IN 1994, 26-year-old Moree boilermaker Donald Devney set about establishing his own welding and fabrication business. At the time, Moree – and the rest of eastern Australia – was experiencing one of the worst droughts in history. Mr Devney hitched his strides, tightened his belt a couple of notches, and figured the time was right. [...]
Movie Night
AFTER 20 years of presenting films from around the world, Moree’s Rising Sun Film Society will this month screen a film much closer to home. Moree film-maker Merri-May Gill, from Two Dog Films, premiered her masterpiece, WHIP, REV & BARREL at Pallamallawa War Memorial Hall in November to rave reviews. Now it’s Moree’s turn – [...]
Water Management
MORE than 6000 kilometres of regional water supply mains in areas across New South Wales – including the Moree Plains – will be tested in round two of the Active Leak Detection Project. The $3 million project targets long-term water security for rural and regional towns and cities and forms part of the Water Efficiency [...]
Regional Crime
A man has been remanded in custody, charged with murder after the death of a child at Tamworth earlier this month. Emergency services were called to a home in Hillvue Road, South Tamworth, about 3.45pm on Saturday, January, after a two-year-old child was found unconscious. NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the child at the scene before [...]
Australia Day
THEY came, they saw and they ran. Hundreds of visitors joined hundreds of locals in Moree last September for a jog around town – and the event now known as Run the Plains was off and running. At Moree Plains Shire Council’s Jellicoe Park Australia Day awards ceremony on Sunday, Run the Plains was named [...]
MAAC Update
MOREE Plains Shire Council advises that following essential upgrades and repairs at Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre, the program and wellness pools will reopen today, Saturday, February 1 from 8am. The facility has been closed since January 7, due to a failure in ageing equipment in the plant room. Moree Plains Shire Council general manager, Natalia [...]
Northern Tablelands
Unfortunately, this week has been dominated by crime. There’s a clear message coming from the communities in our region that everyone has had enough. As I have said before, this is not just a Moree problem, it is a regional New South Wales problem and it is time the government started listening to the people [...]
Local Government
FOLLOWING the December resignation of Moree Plains Shire Council’s general manager, Kelvin Tytherleigh, council has welcomed former City of Coffs Harbour Council general manager Natalia Cowley to the role on an interim basis. Ms Cowley commenced earlier this week and said she was eager to engage with the Moree Plains Shire community. “I am looking [...]
