Boost for business
LOCAL businesses can find out all about some generous employment incentives being offered by the State Government at an information evening this Wednesday 23...
Snakes alive!
SOUTHERN Downs Regional Council is warning residents to be on the lookout for snakes, with a sighting on Monday of an eastern brown snake...
Bodies of elderly couple discovered by police
By Jeremy Sollars
UPDATE: POLICE have confirmed that the bodies of an elderly couple in their late seventies were discovered by police at a Wattle...
Here’s What’s On
By Jazmine Dillon
THERE’S no shortage of things to do this weekend across the glorious Southern Downs and Granite Belt ... check out these events...
Police shooting probe
By Jeremy Sollars
NEIGHBOURS are rallying around the family of a man who was fatally wounded by police at his Freestone property after a confrontation...
Fond farewell to Fred
By Jeremy Sollars
HUMANITARIAN and longtime Warwick resident Fred Hyde AM was farewelled today, Thursday 17 November, at a service at the Warwick Funerals Chapel...
Legal bid to block Bunnings build
A GROUP of business owners and residents looking to lodge a legal appeal against the approval of a new Bunnings outlet on the floodplain...
It’s always the right time for giving
ONE dollar can make a difference, says Stanthorpe Uniting Church minister Reverend Kaye Ronalds when she discovered that last year the Uniting Care Target...
Dry spell ahead
THE Southern Downs and Granite Belt looks set to enyoy a fine and warm weekend coming up. Free Times photographer and weather forecaster TERRY...
Mayor announces rates cap
By Jeremy Sollars
RATES rises for Southern Downs Regional Council ratepayers will be capped at a maximum of 4 per cent annually for the foreseeable...
Kart club in action
THE Warwick Kart Club held one of its regular racing weekends at its Sandy Creek headquarters at the weekend. TERRY WEST headed there to...
New push for rail tourism
By Jeremy Sollars
CALLS to transform the Warwick railway station precinct into a tourism hub have been re-ignited, and the Southern Free Times is backing...
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Deputy Mayor announces end date
The Southern Downs Regional Council Deputy Mayor Sheryl Windle will not seek re-election when this council term is over.
She made the announcement quite casually...
