MOREE will be a lynchpin in the NSW Government’s mission to stop rural crime, with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall on Wednesday announcing new senior police presence to boost the local response. Mr Marshall said an additional Detective Sergeant and two Constables would be soon based...
AN 11-year-old boy charged with arson is one of at least eight people arrested during the past week as Strike Force Claymore 2 enters its fourth week of operation in Moree. Police patrolling Moree at the weekend conducted 64 street checks, 193 roadside breath tests, searched...
A JUVENILE not yet in his teens may be questioned about a suspected arson attack in Moree on Sunday afternoon. The vacant dwelling, on the corner of Wattle Crescent and Boronia Avenue, was allegedly set on fire at about 4pm. A young boy, believed to be no...
FROM dancing with the stars to driving in the car – Gwydir Industries Moree has put the pedal to the metal and bumped the gear-shift into overdrive in the lead-up to Dancing with the Stars, the Moree service provider’s biggest fundraiser of the year. And the...
A TERRIFIED Moree resident was held with scissors to his throat during a home invasion in Anne Street during the early hours of Friday morning. And about two-and-a-half hours later the same offenders allegedly attempted to steal a motor vehicle from a Barwon Avenue address. Offenders fled...
MOREE fire-fighters, police and paramedics battled Alice Street bumper-to-bumper traffic at the Moree bypass set of traffic lights – long-regarded by locals as a motoring nightmare – to quickly respond to a residential fire on Morton Street on Thursday afternoon. A back-up unit from Moree Rural...
AUSTRALIAN jobs are being secured with the Coalition Government signing a contract with Liberty OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks to supply steel rail to the iconic Inland Rail project, the Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said. Mr Coulton said the Parkes to Narromine section of the Inland Rail will...
RACING NSW stewards have concluded an inquiry into the 1000m McGregor Gourley-Labe Sutton Farrier Warialda Sprint at Warialda Jockey Club on Saturday, 8 April. The inquiry was held in Tamworth racecourse stewards’ room last Wednesday, November 29. Stewards: Shane A Cullen (Chairman), Jack Penfold, Marc F Van...
NINETEEN notices for children “at-risk” were completed at the weekend as part of Strike Force Claymore 2 during the latest in a series of high visibility police deployments conducted in the Barwon Local Area Command. Police also conducted 66 searches while two juveniles will be dealt...
UPDATED THE country racing industry – and the western districts’ farming community in general – lost one of its most respected members last week, with the passing of true-blue gentleman Jack Meaney. He was 93. Jack, whose trademark phrase ‘(you are) quite right’ was affectionately known by all...