THE bespectacled young man had been on the road for quite a while. It was the early-1960s and 31-year-old Charles William Thompson was passing through Moree on his way to Mitchell in the Maranoa region. There was work there, apparently, but before he continued northward to the...
MOREE Plains Regional Airport early this month ran a mock emergency exercise to evaluate interagency response at the airport to a simulated aircraft crash, fire and injured passengers. MRA Manager Fiona McClymont said the aim of the exercises was to give emergency procedures a work-out, test...
THE region continues to attract innovative, beautiful and challenging artwork, and The Moree Gallery’s November exhibition will present two highly acclaimed artists that are both inspired by the land and their local experiences. Ray Firth will show around 30 paintings and small sculptures tracing his life...
MOREE Mayor Katrina Humphries says grant funding to undertake a comprehensive transport study for the Moree Plains Shire is a ‘game-changer’. Cr Humphries, in conjunction with Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, this week announced that Council has been successful in securing funding. The total project –...
WELL-KNOWN Moree residents Frank Crump and Ron Clissold, along with 12-year-old Moree Public School student Michelle Dunlop, have been named Queen’s baton bearers in the lead-up to the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The baton relay, first held in 1958 at the British Empire and Commonwealth...
MOREE residents and visitors will be treated to a night under the stars – and with the stars – when local singer-songwriters Fi Claus and Merri-May Gill officially launch their debut album Sunday Heart Parade on November 4 at Mary Brand Park. The past 12 months...
MORE than 150 people raised more than $40,000 for Moree Junior Cricket Club at a huge fundraiser at the Max Function Centre on Friday night. The McGregor Gourlay-sponsored evening, emceed by Jimmy Smith from Sky Sports Radio’s Big Sports Breakfast, also featured Australian wicket-keeper Brad Haddin,...
MOREE old boy Max Hitchins – licensee of the Imperial Hotel back in the 1960s and son of famed bookmaker and hotelier Ernie Hitchins – is once again compiling form and statistics for this year’s time-honoured Melbourne Cup. Hitchins, known universally as Melbourne Cup Max, has...
MOREE singer-songwriters Merri-May Gill and Fi Claus will early next month officially launch Sunday Heart Parade, their much-awaited debut album that has been more than 12 months in the making. The album features 16 original songs as well as Leonard Cohen’s timeless classic, Hallelujah. The songs, written...
THOUSANDS of dollars’ worth of prizes and auction items have been donated to Moree Junior Cricket Club to help finance a new white picket fence at Ron Harborne Oval sporting precinct. And they will go under the hammer at a huge sports dinner at the Max...