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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 [...]
Youth Crime
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Mark Coulton and Nationals candidate for Parkes Jamie Chaffey are backing their state Nationals colleagues in calls for the NSW Labor Government to take stronger action to tackle youth crime following the tragic death of a motorcyclist in Gunnedah earlier this week. Mr Coulton said this incident has sent shockwaves through [...]
Police News
A man has appeared in court today for DV and property-related offences, and is among four people charged during a high-visibility operation focused on preventing and disrupting crime in the state’s north. Between Wednesday, January 29 and Thursday, January 30, officers attached to New England Police District, Public Order and Riot Squad and the Western [...]
Sponsored Content
PEOPLE across the Moree Plains will soon have increased access to legal help, with the announcement Legal Aid NSW will establish a permanent office in the town. And ahead of the opening in the first half of this year, a recruitment drive is underway to fill four positions at the new premises. For many years, [...]
Australia Day
FROM Hyderabad, Telangana, in the southern part of India, to the black-soil plains in north-western New South Wales, Australia – the journey has been exciting and at-times daunting for Moree’s newest citizens, Mirza and Arshia Baig. For Mirza and Arshia, and their five-year-old son, also named Mirza, the final step of that journey took place at [...]
Aged Care
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan is better-known for calling the shots – but during a recent visit to Whiddon Moree, he was rumoured to be calling bingo. Mr Moylan found time in his busy schedule to drop by the residential aged-care facility for morning tea, a game of bingo and a chat with residents [...]
Regional News
The Queensland Forensic Crash Unit is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash south of Texas yesterday, Thursday, January 30. At approximately 9:45am, emergency services were called to Riverton Road at Watsons Crossing, about 35 kilometres south of Texas, following reports a motorbike had crashed. The rider of the motorbike, a 59-year-old from Glen Aplin, near Stanthorpe, [...]
