Layla won’t you ease a worried mind
Meet newest Council worker, Layla the well-read Border Collie/Moodle cross.
Layla is a trained assistance dog, offering unwavering support and grounding for her...
Look up and live on the land
Ergon Energy is asking everyone on the land to Look Up and Live.
On average, every six days, somewhere in Queensland, farm machinery hits powerlines.
Last...
Out-of-town seniors visit Warwick
A busload of seniors travelled from Gatton, Esk and Lowood for a social visit to the Warwick Pensioners and Superannuants last week (25 May).
In...
Criticism over crossing
An attempt by a Condamine River Crossings protestor to draw comparisons between a culvert at a river crossing in the Junabee district and the...
Fruit cake perfection
The fine art of baking a dark rich fruit cake went under the microscope – and the knife – during the weekend in Warwick...
Biodiversity campaign
Relative to other high country regions, particularly south of the border, the Granite Belt and Traprock remain in good ecological condition.
Many of the...
The serious business of child’s play
It’s better to have no playground at all than one that’s not safe. That’s the message from the Southern Downs Regional Council.
After an audit...
A great show of strength for Warwick
The romance and power of pure strength will take centre stage when Warwick hosts the Australian Highland Games Championships during this year’s CelticFest.
Twenty strongmen...
Booklet for wellbeing on the land
Natural disasters, droughts, financial stress and geographic isolation are some of the challenges faced by people in regional and rural Queensland.
These adversities can have...
Exclusion fencing key
Five years ago, Inglewood graziers Peter and Julie Ramsey reinstated an original exclusion fence around their 800-hectare property ‘Old Paisley’ and haven’t looked back.
The...
SDIEA farewells two board members
Two longstanding members of the Southern Downs Industry Education Association (SDIEA) board were farewelled at the group’s recent Annual General Meeting.
Denise Ingram and...
Braving the cold
The temperature may be continuing to drop but that didn’t stop the people of the Granite Belt and Southern Downs (and visitors to the...
‘Distraught’: Small community counting costs of storm damage
Pratten residents counting the costs of repairing significant storm damage may have to go it alone during recovery after missing out on state and...
