DESPITE the chaos of harvest, toddlers and the minor detail of zero hardware experience, it was an ever-enthusiastic Anthony and Rebecca Diprose who threw open the doors of Dipper’s Home Timber and Hardware five years ago. With his insatiable thirst for a new adventure and challenge,...
MOREE old-boy Max Hitchins, a self-confessed Melbourne Cup tragic who likes nothing better than to each year try and pick the winner of Australia’s greatest horse race, has been busy in the southern capital this past week letting people know exactly how he does it. “On...
ONE young girl has been charged and another taken into custody in separate incidents in Moree and Boggabilla. A young girl is in custody in Moree after being located with a quantity of stolen property. Police allege that at around 5am on Thursday morning the young girl...
SINGER-songwriters Merri-May Gill and Fi Claus will on Saturday evening officially launch their debut album Sunday Heart Parade at Mary Brand Park in Moree – and they’re inviting the entire town to come along and enjoy a night under the stars. Sunday Heart Parade features 16...
WITH the success of this year’s Moree on a Plate Food and Wine Festival well documented, the local community can now enjoy the spoils of another successful event. Moree on a Plate Festival president Bethany Kelly was thrilled to recently donate a cheque for $3370 to...
THE bespectacled young man had been on the road for quite a while. It was the early-1960s and 31-year-old Charles William Thompson was passing through Moree on his way to Mitchell in the Maranoa region. There was work there, apparently, but before he continued northward to the...
MOREE Plains Regional Airport early this month ran a mock emergency exercise to evaluate interagency response at the airport to a simulated aircraft crash, fire and injured passengers. MRA Manager Fiona McClymont said the aim of the exercises was to give emergency procedures a work-out, test...
THE region continues to attract innovative, beautiful and challenging artwork, and The Moree Gallery’s November exhibition will present two highly acclaimed artists that are both inspired by the land and their local experiences. Ray Firth will show around 30 paintings and small sculptures tracing his life...
MOREE Mayor Katrina Humphries says grant funding to undertake a comprehensive transport study for the Moree Plains Shire is a ‘game-changer’. Cr Humphries, in conjunction with Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, this week announced that Council has been successful in securing funding. The total project –...
WELL-KNOWN Moree residents Frank Crump and Ron Clissold, along with 12-year-old Moree Public School student Michelle Dunlop, have been named Queen’s baton bearers in the lead-up to the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The baton relay, first held in 1958 at the British Empire and Commonwealth...