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Cake Drive
MOREE Lions Club is celebrating one of its biggest Christmas cake drives in history – if not the biggest – with cakes and puddings selling like, well, hotcakes. Lions’ volunteers Darryl Brady and Will Garrett have been selling cakes and puddings at Moree’s big three – Brooker Trading Co, Café Omega and 61 Balo – [...]
Northern Tablelands
Ashford’s Sunhaven Hostel will receive upgrades to their residents’ beds thanks to $16,000 secured through the Community Building Partnership program. The beds will be modernised and made which not only betters the lives of the residents but also gives their families peace of mind knowing their loved ones are received the best possible care. It [...]
Operation Soteria
THREE teenagers have been charged after allegedly entering a residential property with intent to commit an indictable offence in Moree today. All three also faced breach-of-bail charges. At about 12.45am today, Friday, December 5, officers attached to New England Police District were called to a home on Boston Street, Moree, following reports of youths being [...]
Police News
A man has faced court, charged with drug-related and theft offences in the Tamworth area. In September, officers attached to Oxley Police District commenced an investigation into the supply of prohibited drugs in the Tamworth and surrounding areas. Following investigations, at about 7.50am on December 3, police executed a search warrant at a home on [...]
Strike Force Yarloop
A man and a woman will face court, charged with drug-related and theft offences in the Gunnedah region. In July, detectives attached to Oxley Police District and the Crime Prevention Team commenced investigations under Strike Force Yarloop to investigate property and rural thefts in the Gunnedah and surrounding areas. Aa about 8.10am yesterday, December 4, [...]
Inland Rail Update
PHASE 2 of the Narrabri to North Star section of the inland rail project is set to resume, with work on 15 kilometres of track between Moree and Camurra North getting the greenlight following planning approval. Running through Moree Plains Shire, the new line forms a key link in the Inland Rail network. The milestone [...]
Our Community
BANK Art Museum Moree has won a major award at the Museum and Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards, held at University of Sydney’s The Refectory last week. BAMM scooped the Engagement Projects Award for Team Trampoline, developed by BAMM with artist Meg Wilson, and facilitated by BAMM’s Cate Gaston. Ms Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist and [...]
Mental Health
FORMER Melbourne Storm and South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL star Greg Inglis will be in Moree next week to deliver a series of engaging mental health programs as part of his ground-breaking Goanna Academy advocacy group. Inglis will be in Moree for two days, after Moree Plains Shire Council’s Community Development Team successfully obtained an Alcohol [...]
Moree To Paris
WHEN people in Moree talk about the local velodrome, the conversation always turns to the Sutton brothers. Always. Gary and Shane Sutton cut their teeth at the Moree track, down the southern end of the perfectly-named Endeavour Lane. Cycling royalty returned home last week, when Gary Sutton rode into town for a few days to [...]
Regional Health
THE University of New England has been selected as one of 10 universities nationwide to receive additional Commonwealth supported medical places, in a major win for regional health workforce education. UNE will receive 10 additional places annually from 2026, with the potential for further expansion from 2028. The university was chosen through a competitive process [...]
