Deluxe Café Moree, owned and operated by Bill and Cindy Poulos, has for the third time won the Moree Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down! Business Appreciation Award. After wins in 2016 and again in 2019, the mobile coffee shop was voted on top for February-March, 2021. “We are...
MOREE & District Historical Society’s exhibition of 100 wedding dresses from the past 100 years is proving very popular. Both the opening parade on March 27 and the morning teas on Saturday, April 3 were sell-out events, with most enthusiastic crowds. The exhibition upstairs in the museum...
A BLEND of community spirit and home-grown kindness and goodwill rose above the devastating floodwaters that swept through Moree and district late last week. Within hours of the water subsiding, volunteer work crews from several businesses and community groups were on the streets helping flood-affected residents...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has today announced disaster recovery assistance is being made available to those in the Moree Plains, Inverell and Gwydir Shire Council local government areas impacted by severe storms and floods from 10 March 2021 onwards. Mr Marshall took leave from NSW...
THE Dr Geoffrey Hunter Bridge – Moree’s main link between north and south – remained open overnight as flood levels along the Gwydir and Mehi Rivers continue to rise to levels comparable to the 1971 flood. At 11.30pm, Tuesday, the Gwydir River at Yarraman was 7.07...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has this morning met with Emergency Services Minister David Elliott to brief him on the flood situation facing the Gwydir River catchment and to ensure adequate local and outside emergency services assets are in place to support the Moree community...
When arguments and debates arise about 21st century climate change, it seems nothing much has changed at all during the past 200 years – not across the Moree black-soil plains, anyway. The devastating drought of 2018 and 2019, which affected most of eastern Australia, is regarded...
MOREE and district has been on a social starvation diet for far too long, and the 2021 Moree on a Plate Food and Wine Festival has grand plans to help break the fast. A feast of entertainment, activities and fresh local produce and menus will satisfy...
MOREE Boars return to the Group 4 rugby league playing fields in May but they will do so without one of their favourite sons and true champions – Paul “Poey” Raveneau. Paul, the 27th life member of the Boars, passed away last Friday, March 5. He was...
RESIDENTS of north-west New South Wales are encouraged to take up work on the transformational Inland Rail project, with the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and Trans4m Rail hiring local workers now for the Narrabri to North Star section. Local member for Parkes and Minister for...