INDIGENOUS heritage and language is being celebrated across the Northern Tablelands, with NAIDOC week 2017 now in full swing – backed by $7,750 in NSW Government funding. Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall commended the hard work of local communities – with many well organised events...
NARRABRI shire residents can look skyward to Sydney once again with the news that regular return flights to the state capital will take to the airways in September. Regional Airline Fly Corporate today announced that from Wednesday, September 13 direct flights between Narrabri and Sydney will commence. Also...
MOREE’S historic Courthouse has received a $320,000 technology boost from the NSW Government to make all courtroom hearings more efficient and secure, Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall announced today. Mr Marshall today tested the technology during a tour of the heritage listed building, and said...
COMMERCIAL flights will return to the skies over Inverell with the announcement today that regional airline Fly Corporate will commence direct weekday morning flights between Brisbane and the Sapphire City, with return flights via Moree. The first Fly Corporate Inverell-Brisbane service will leave the tarmac on Wednesday,...
TAKE a female Pommy jockey that hadn’t ridden an outright thoroughbred winner after 16 years of trying. Add to the mix a trainer that was just a couple of months ago entrusted with a big team of horses and who was also finding that breakthrough winner...
IT was a big night at last Thursday’s Moree Plains Shire Council meeting, with councillors endorsing a number of important strategic plans for the future of the Shire. Under NSW Government legislation, following their election, every council is required to revisit the 10Year Plan for its...
MOREE Plains Gallery’s long-awaited reopening after refurbishment will take place on Friday, July 7 after a month-long closure. The opening coincides with NAIDOC week and the launch of the gallery’s latest exhibition Yeladu! Kamilaroi Art Today, which features the works of eight emerging and established artists. Yeladu!...
WORK on a concrete slab that has been on Gwydir Industry’s wish-list for “years” will start in July, thanks to a $5500 donation from Moree Lodge Courallie. Nearly $3000 was raised at a trivia night earlier this year and that money was matched dollar-for-dollar by Masonicare,...
AFTER spending eight years out of the saddle raising a young family and overcoming a series of track falls, injuries and just plain old bad luck, jockey Kath Bell-Pitomac is back where she belongs – at the racetrack on race-day booting home winners. Bell-Pitomac has been...
MOREE trainer Nathan Sinclair reckons he doesn't need the intelligence of Einstein to know that the next number in the sequence 4-3-2 is one. And after finishing fourth at Coonamble, third at Moree and second at Mallawa with Our Boy Danny in recent weeks, Sinclair reckons...