Media Release Member for Barwon, Kevin Humphries has announced that nominations for the 2015 Ministers’ Awards for Women in Local Government are now open. The Awards recognise the outstanding contributions and achievements of women, both as elected representatives and as staff, in local government in NSW. Mr Humphries...
IT has taken nearly four years, but a fund-raising target that was once considered a pipedream has been reached – and thanks to the generous customers of popular mobile coffee outlet Deluxe Café Moree, the Moree Hospital is now $10,000 richer. In early April, 2011, when...
CHOCOLATE-chip cookie connoisseur Clancy Carroll is a young girl driven by ambition and at 11 years of age is arguably Moree’s youngest entrepreneur. Her home-made chocolate-chip cookies have in just a couple of years become must-haves for many Moree residents – and those that haven’t tried...
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Words, images Copyright Bill Poulos A HORSE that connections had never intended starting on the picnic circuit has rewritten north-western turf history by becoming just the third horse in 85 years to win all three picnic cups at Moree, Mallawa and Talmoi – bush-racing’s Golden Triangle...
Words, Image Copyright Bill Poulos MOREE trainer Peter Sinclair capped a remarkable Golden Triangle by leading back three winners at Garah on Saturday, including history-making gelding Tapakeg in the 1400m B&W Rural Talmoi Cup. Tapakeg joined Mulgate (1961) and Gefilte (1988) as just the third horse in...
Words, images Copyright Bill Poulos 2014 GOLDEN Triangle cups’ king Peter Sinclair is poised to rewrite bush racing history if Tapakeg takes its place in the 1400m B&W Rural Talmoi Cup at Garah on Saturday. Tapakeg, winner of the Boolooroo and Mallawa Cups at legs one and...
Words, images Copyright Bill Poulos MORE than 1000 mourners from across Australia gathered at Moree’s St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church on Monday to farewell former jockey and all-round good bloke Noel Colvin, one of bush racing’s best-known – and lovable – characters. Noel, a former top jockey...
(this page is ongoing) [caption id="attachment_2877" align="alignleft" width="372"] When I walk in the PO Hotel, I see Red, I see Red, I see Red . . . I see Red-ed-ed, I see Red!! (with abject apologies to Split Enz). Steven Red Lloyd, a long-serving (pun intended)...