WHEN a returned serviceman at the Moree Anzac Day march a few years ago smugly suggested to Edith Guyer that she “should go down the back with all the schoolkids”, the comment stung. Mrs Guyer was in her late 80s – she’ll be 93 in a...
GWYDIR Valley Cotton Growers Association will on Wednesday, April 18 again host An Evening of Cotton, which will include information on the history of cotton production on the Moree Plains, a farm visit, a look at cotton picking and a tour of a working cotton...
BOGGABILLA’S footballers and cricketers will play day and night on their own ‘field of dreams’ with a $139,909 NSW Government grant to install lighting to brighten up the town’s public sportsground, Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall announced today. Mr Marshall said the project would help transform...
FRIENDS of Moree Regional Botanic Gardens were delighted to host the Garden Clubs Australia Northwest Zone picnic in Moree on Saturday. The picnic – also the perfect opportunity to celebrate 20 years’ operation for the Moree Plains Garden Club and 10 years for the Friends of...
MOREE pianist Tom Williams has travelled the world in recent years in pursuit of musical excellence. And that journey brought him back to where it all began on Friday evening when he collaborated with Bingara opera diva Lexi Hutton for a one-night only performance at Bank...
HE'S an entertainer, an educator and an advocate – and George the Farmer, the children’s character with a skyrocketing profile, will soon be visiting the region for the Moree on a Plate Food and Wine Festival. George, a life-size, plush character, will conduct live performances in the...
PICNIC race club officials at Moree, Mallawa and Talmoi – bush racing’s Golden Triangle – are dusting off the saddlecloths and preparing for another chapter of grass-roots thoroughbred racing across the black-soil plains. It is a celebrated carnival that has gone largely uninterrupted for more than...
NEARLY 9000 anglers from across Australia last month took part in the 10th annual Pirtek Fishing Challenge, a nationwide competition aimed at raising much-needed funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Peter Duncan Neurosciences Research Unit. Anglers are required to accurately measure and photograph...
IT’S now been twice in as many weeks that Moree wool-buyer Cliff Horton has worn shoes and socks to the races – and for good reason, too. Horton, a Mungindi old boy, has been known to wear out the odd pair of double-pluggers. But in recent weeks...
MOREE’s own classical music pianist Thomas Williams returns home this week for a one-night only performance, accompanying soprano Alexandra ‘Lexi’ Hutton at Bank Art Museum Moree on Friday evening in Concert of Classics. BAMM’s evening of classical music, starting at 6.30pm, features two of the region’s...