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...
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...
VETERAN jockey and all-round good bloke Geoff Snowden was honoured for his services to the Warialda Jockey Club at the bush race club’s annual cup meeting on Saturday. Snowden, who turns 55 later this month, began riding at the annual meeting in 1984 – and there...
GRAFTON jockey Jodi Worley produced the ride of the day on Saturday to win the 1400m Anipro and Coolatai Rural Supplies Warialda Cup on the Sue Grills-trained Star of Legs – but the win didn’t come without its fair share of drama at the barriers. “It...
IT seemed only right that Moree’s Sinclair family should quinella the first running of the 1000m Darren Jones Memorial Sprint at Warialda on Saturday – a race named in honour of one of the greats of bush racing. Jones was tragically killed in a horrific three-horse...
WE may not have the race that stops a nation, but here in the north-west there’s no doubt we have the races that stop a region. Steeped in style and engrained into the annual social calendar, The Moree Picnic Races are to be held on Saturday,...