MOREE Artesian Aquatic Centre has taken steps to reduce its carbon footprint, with the recent installation of solar systems. In December 2019, MAAC’s proposed Solar Project was supported by councillors who approved council to cover the costs of the solar systems and installation. The centre has since...
I cannot begin to describe the frustration I have felt this week on behalf of our border medical patients, farmers, contractors, boarding school parents and all those impeded by the hard border, imposed suddenly by the Queensland Government. Over the past week, I have sent eight...
Moree Plains Shire Council encourages community members to continue to call Customer Service to make payments and address concerns or enquiries over the phone, where possible. While the Customer Service Centre in the Max Centre is open for face-to-face transactions, access to level 2 of the...
MOREE Boars president Todd Mitchell reckons the Covid-19 pandemic might have done his rugby league football club a favour. While he and the Boars players would have loved to have played football this year in an exciting return to Group 4 Rugby League he understands the...
STUDENTS across Moree Plains Shire are encouraged to get creative and submit designs for the2020 Truck Art Competition, run in collaboration with Moree Plains Shire Council and Cleanaway. The theme for this year’s competition is Be Green, Keep Your Recycling Clean, with the winning design to...
EFFORTS are underway to improve the safety of an important feeder road which will channel future traffic past the Moree Special Activation Precinct (SAP), with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall announcing $560,588 to seal and realign dangerous curves on Burrington Road. Mr Marshall said the project...
On Saturday 15 August 2020, we as a nation will pause, remember, and commemorate the end of World War Two in the Pacific in 1945. The date was originally known as V-J Day and later altered to V-P Day – Victory in the Pacific. On that day,...
A concerned group of Moree residents and land-holders have formed the Moree Plains Gas Pipeline Group to draw attention and awareness to a proposed gas pipeline that will pass through the Moree plains and north-west region. And the group will be represented at a special meeting...
THE decision today by the Queensland Premier to re-introduce a ‘hard border’ with NSW this weekend is disappointing, but not surprising. As of 1am, Saturday, 8 August 2020, all visitors will be denied entry into Queensland, except for residents of border communities and essential workers. I feel...
ORGANISERS of Moree on a Plate can start putting together the menu for 2021, with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall on Tuesday announcing a $10,000 State Government grant to help serve up the next culinary extravaganza. Mr Marshall said the cancellation of this year’s festival, due...