The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Thank-You
POLICE officers and their families will gather at services around the country today, to mark National Police Remembrance Day which officially falls on Sunday, September 29. A service will be held at the NSW Police Wall of Remembrance in the Domain, to honour the 276 officers who have lost their lives in the line of [...]
Animal Welfare
DOGS and cats of all shapes, sizes and breeds queued obediently at Jellicoe Park on Friday morning as the Animal Welfare League NSW mobile vet clinic rolled into Moree. The NSW Government-funded service offers free animal health checks, micro-chipping and C3 vaccinations for dogs and cats. The mobile unit is a fully-fitted out B-double truck [...]
Community
MORE than $8000 was raised for Legacy earlier this month when volunteers and school children sold badges, pens and keepsakes across Moree to support one of Australia’s best-loved institutions. Legatees, with the help of school children from St Philomena’s Catholic School, canvassed Moree business houses and conducted a stall on Balo Street. Moree Legacy president, [...]
Junior Sport
THE call-up is on to dust off the pads, balance the bails and polish the bats – Moree junior cricket season is ready to hit the wickets. The club, with a committee headed up newly-elected president Mick Jensen, is calling on nominations to fill teams ahead of the JC1 and JC2 Master Blasters’ launch on [...]
Road Safety
POLICE are appealing to road users to stay safe on the roads ahead of the upcoming school holidays. With the aim of keeping the road toll at zero during the school holiday period, police will be out in force to ensure everyone arrives at their destination safely. The school holidays begin on Monday, September 30 [...]
School sport
KIDS from Gravesend Public School are in Sydney this week competing in the PSSA State Small Schools Knockout Competition in two sports – touch football and netball. Incredibly, the tiny school earned a shot at the state titles in both after progressing to the quarter-finals when the knock-out started in June. On Wednesday afternoon, the [...]
Photo Gallery
AS far as good old-fashioned entertainment went, it didn’t get much better than this. Sydney-based bush band Swamp Dawkins kicked off their black-soil plains tour at Moree Services Club on Wednesday night and left a couple of hundred people buggered but laughing as they were taught grand chains and cast-offs by lead vocalist Michael Buining. [...]
Animal cruelty
A 55-year-old man and 52-year-old woman from Moree have been convicted of seven animal cruelty offences, including committing an act of cruelty on 79 cats, failing to provide veterinary treatment to multiple cats for various veterinary conditions, and confining eight cats in cages that were inadequate for exercise. Both defendants pleaded guilty at Moree Local [...]
Speed Shear
MORE than 80 shearers from both sides of the Tasman will hit Pallamallawa on Saturday and speed shear their way through 160 sheep supplied by Garah graziers, Graham and Stafford Burey. The inaugural Pally Speed Shear on the grounds of the Pally Pub is expected to draw spectators from across the region to watch gun [...]
Regional News
THE NSW Labor Government is said to be considering new laws that would curtail the powers of landowners who want to fight to stop wind farm developments in their community and near farming land. Nationals candidate for Calare, Sam Farraway, is demanding Labor immediately abandon plans to strip Central West families of their rights to [...]
