Just one square turns into a woollen blanket of love – that’s what the members of the Moree Community Library’s Knit and Natter group are celebrating during Homelessness Awareness Week. Knit and Natter Co-ordinator Clare Gately explained many people find themselves homeless as a result of...
MOREE Cultural Art Foundation board is preparing for one of its biggest fundraiser events of the year at Moree Plains Gallery – and a huge start to spring for the Moree district. The 2016 Spring Fling on Friday, September 2 headlines a busy events’ schedule for...
OFFICERS attached to Barwon Local Area Command have executed a search warrant at Moree. At around 7.30am on Saturday, July 30, officers executed a search warrant without incident at a motel room in Moree. A quantity of cash and illegal drugs was located during the search and seized...
TODAY marks the start of the State’s 62nd Education Week and local MP Adam Marshall is urging local communities to get involved. “It’s easy to view education as merely a series of obligations and it is similarly easy to forget that in our schools we lay...
LEGAL Aid NSW is increasing legal services for the residents of the Moree district to better help people in the local community, Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall announced today. “A number of new initiatives mean that local residents will have more access to legal advice and...
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall has welcomed the State Government’s regulatory changes which will now allow doctors in NSW to be able to apply to prescribe a broader range of cannabis-based medicines. Mr Marshall said the move meant that cannabis-based medicines previously only able to...
IT was a defining moment for Moree AFL outfit the Suns on Saturday when the fledgling club outstripped Narrabri Eagles by a widening 95 points. The Suns ran out winners 19.23-137 to 6.6-42 with Moree's Luke O'Neill (five goals), Wyatt Roberts, Ashley Jones, Joshua Walker, Daniel West and Zach Collier playing blinders. Club president...
NSW Police Force has launched the 2016 Missing Persons Week campaign to raise awareness of the issues and impacts surrounding missing persons. The theme of this year’s campaign is urging people to ‘Stay Connected’ and to remember that ‘Missing Persons Leave Frayed Edges.’ The campaign aims to...
MOREE Cup-bound gelding Free Billy lost no admirers yesterday after finishing strongly to grab fourth in the 1350m Moet and Chandon Chairman’s Club Handicap at Doomben. Free Billy, trained at Moree by Peter Sinclair and owned locally by the well-known Bryans family, had just five horses...
FOLLOWING weeks of tough training, 24 recruit firefighters officially joined Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) during a ceremony at the State Training College at Alexandria. They are trained in the latest firefighting technology, road crash and high-angle rescue, risk management and handling hazardous materials. NSW Minister for Emergency...