HE may be a world away from his beloved hometown of Moree, but Robbie Humphries is carving out his dream career – an ambition forged many years ago at the Ron Harborne Oval cricket nets. This self-described ‘mad cricket fan’, who graduated from Moree Secondary College...
THE inaugural Travelling Quilters’ Challenge is coming to Moree and organisers urge everyone to come along and view the incredible display of quilts – made locally and regionally – that will be on display. The 2018 theme is Chinese New Year or, according to Challenge co-ordinator...
THEY are the blokes that put Moree on the national sporting stage back in the early 1970s – and they’re returning home to the black-soil plains to help celebrate 100 years of local rugby league when they join hundreds of other like-minded league tragics at...
IN A Wink was a real down to earth trier and would have been right at home at a Tradies’ day such as today’s eight-race meeting at Tamworth. Indeed, the now-retired mare ran well at Tamworth, winning on debut at the track and also running a...
MOREE Boars Rugby League Football Club is packing down for one of the most important nights of its long and cherished history when former and current players, committee members, officials and supporters come together to celebrate 100 years of rugby league in Moree. Local league’s night-of-nights,...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has greeted the formation of the seven-council New England Joint Organisation as a new dawn of collaboration, co-operation and competitive advantage in local government across the region. Mr Marshall attended the historic inaugural meeting of the New England JO at Moree...
Funding in excess of $3.5 million to benefit agricultural industries in the north-west of NSW has been announced today, as part of the Federal Government’s $27 million Smart Farming Partnerships initiative. The University of Sydney’s DigiFarm, a digital farming initiative in north-west NSW, has been granted...
SCHOOL-based trainee Emily Cosgrove will represent Moree Plains Shire Council at the 2018 NSW Regional Training Awards in Tamworth on Friday night at the West Tamworth Leagues Club. Council’s human resources officer Jessica Johnstone said that the Regional Training Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and...
IN an effort to make household recycling more effective and to increase residents’ attention on what they are putting into the recycling and organics’ kerbside wheelie bins, Moree Plains Shire Council is taking a proactive approach with households who are not disposing of waste correctly...
IT takes talent, patience and, above all, dedication to work in the medical field – and they are all qualities that Junior Doctor and aspiring GP Gemma Brown attributes to her education at Moree Secondary College. “I don’t think you can underestimate how valuable it is...