AFTER one week of anxiously waiting for preference votes to be counted by the NSW Electoral Commission, the new-look, nine-person Moree Plains Shire Council was announced today. And it seems that Moree Plains' voters have opted for the ‘out the old and in with the new’...
MOREE mayor Katrina Humphries and member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall were today critical of the NSW Electoral Commission for its apparent lack of haste as the anxious wait for local government election results continues. Data entry commenced at 2.47pm on Tuesday with batching completed at 11.05am...
In the Bélier family, everyone is deaf, except dutiful sixteen-year-old Paula. She acts as an indispensable interpreter for her parents and younger brother, especially in the running of the family dairy farm. Though her salt-of-the-earth father has decided to run for mayor - spurred on by...
YOU’VE been hearing about this for what must seem like forever – and finally, the day has arrived. Moree Secondary College is introducing to the community the first production it has had for a number of years. There’s singing, dancing, laughter and all the other amazing...
MEMBERS of the Moree Reconciliation Group met with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall recently, to discuss plans for the 10th anniversary of the Moree Reconciliation Awards next year. Mr Marshall arranged a June meeting in NSW Parliament between the Group’s spokesperson Glen Crump and Minister for...
THE cost for parents of sending children to the 23 pre-schools across the Northern Tablelands will be slashed by up to 30 per cent, after the NSW Government today announced an additional $115 million in funding to make early childhood education more affordable. “This is just...
RAIN, and more rain – that is the forecast for the north-west slopes and plains, as well as the rest of New South Wales, for the next week. Forecasters are predicting up to 100mm of rain over the next few days, with the likelihood of follow-up...
IT has often been said that a week is a long time in politics. And the adage could not be closer to the truth for a handful of candidates seeking election – and re-election – in the Moree Plains local government election. While mayor Katrina Humphries (1643...
A MINISTERIAL Order that protects motorists with non-compliant bull bars from being fined and prosecuted has been extended for another 12 months, Northern Tablelands MP and parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW Adam Marshall announced today. The original two-year order was put in place during September 2014...
THE residents of Moree’s Moreena Units, many of them elderly and with disabilities, will have easier access to the facility’s kitchen and communal room after the Units’ managing trust won a $1,810 grant from the State Government. “By building a concrete access ramp with this Public...