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Spring Carnival
MOREE Cup winner Tavros, Inverell’s Country Championships runner-up Lisztomania, and last year’s Armidale Cup winner Ring Ahoy will represent the north-west at Randwick today in races worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. As race-goers across Australia cheer for the big names at Flemington, Tamworth trainers Craig Martin and David Hatch chase their biggest paydays when [...]
Solar Power
FEDERAL Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, said Australians will next year have access to a new retail energy offer that unlocks free solar for homes during the day – whether they have solar panels or not. As part of the Government’s retail energy market reforms a new regulated electricity offer, Solar Sharer, [...]
Featured Property
A home filled with 1920s charm set on a spacious quarter-acre block in a sought-after area of Moree is Raine and Horne’s featured property this week. This beautifully-presented three-bedroom, weatherboard home at 30 Belgravia Street in west Moree oozes vintage charm that blends perfectly with modern living. Polished timber floors, detailed fretwork, and casement windows [...]
Police News
A man has been charged following an alleged assault in Gunnedah. Just after 1:45am Sunday, emergency services were called to a rural property in Kelvin Road, Gunnedah, following reports of an assault. On arrival, officers attached to Oxley Police District were told a 19-year-old man allegedly attended the location earlier in the evening where an [...]
Moree Hospital
WORKS to deliver the $105 million Moree Hospital redevelopment have reached a significant milestone, with the first major concrete pour completed. The redevelopment will deliver modern and contemporary health facilities to meet the health needs of the community. It includes construction of the new acute services building, an emergency department, ambulance bay, operating theatre, medical [...]
Education
A special ceremony was held on Thursday at Moree Town and Country Club to welcome 12 new graduates under the Country Universities Centre North West Moree education program. The Moree hub, an affiliate of the CUC network, is a dedicated learning and study space for regional people. The centre gives students the option to study [...]
Tribute
ON Oaks day in Melbourne five years ago, well-known Inverell grazier Eugene Ehsman – known widely as Paul – was at Flemington racecourse cheering home a horse he part-owned in the 1400m Subzero All-Greys Handicap. Berdibek, trained by John O’Shea at Randwick and ridden perfectly by Hugh Bowman, came from strictly nowhere at the 600-metre [...]
Spring Carnival
A Lexus Melbourne Cup calcutta will be held at Moree Services Club tonight, with a guaranteed starting pool of at least $1000. The starting pool is expected to be greater as the auction gets closer, with strong ticket sales – at just one-dollar each – already recorded. The huge fundraiser, supported by Regional Australia Bank, [...]
Local Racing
THERE are three certainties in life – death, taxes and Lesgo Don when he races at Moree. Well, maybe not quite, but the popular galloper with a huge following again proved the spacious Moree track is his preferred circuit with a last-stride win in the 1400m Patrons’ BM-58 Handicap on Friday. The win, his third [...]
Police News
AN off-duty police officer attached to a command in the western region has been charged with high-range drink-driving after undergoing a random breath test in Moree this morning. At about 4am today, Sunday, November 2, police stopped a vehicle on Gwydir Street, Moree, for the purposes of a random breath test. The 39-year-old female driver [...]
