Orchard Grove for the future
First home buyers and upsizing families have led the charge to secure a home site in the master-planned community Orchard Grove in Warwick, which...
Cost whack for wacky races
By Jeremy Sollars
The Southern Downs Regional Council has declined to comment on the cancellation of the Warwick Wacky Racers which were to have been...
Get-together for probus clubs
Probus members from Beaudesert, Warwick Combined, Warwick Rose City, Stanthorpe and Tenterfield clubs met together for the second annual Interclub Friendship Day which included...
Give them shelter
By Jeremy Sollars
Work is well and truly underway on a replacement shelter at Swanfels Pioneer Memorial Park east of Warwick.
As reported previously the original...
Lyon helps save face
World Cricket is alive and well or so it seems after Bangladesh posted their first win against Australia last week.
Australia now face a must...
‘Cruiser comes up beaut
By Jeremy Sollars
Our local livestock producers weren’t the only ones to have some big wins at the 2017 Brisbane Ekka.
Warwick’s Carl Dittman was stoked...
No sign of saleyards decision
By Jeremy Sollars
A potential plan to lease out the Warwick Saleyards to a private operator is yet to be considered by the Southern Downs...
History in the making
By Jeremy Sollars
Warwick author and researcher Deborah Wheeler is very keen to hear from anyone with historical family connections to Stanthorpe’s Kyoomba Sanitorium.
She’s assisting...
On the wild side
Story - Jeremy Sollars, Photos - Sandra McEwan
They’ve been called an ‘Australian icon’ and the New South Wales Government is set to officially recognise...
Lenscape
Thanks to Stanthorpe’s Margaret Osborne for sending in her shot of water hens resting near Quart Pot Creek this week. Send your nature, sunset,...
Couple killed in highway crash
By Jeremy Sollars
Police forensic crash officers are still investigating an accident on the New England Highway north of Allora yesterday morning, Wednesday 30 August,...
Bushfire forum
South-west Queensland firefighters will host a community information forum at Hodgson Vale south of Towoomba to help residents with their bushfire preparations.
Rural Fire...
Calls for action after state’s water report made public
The Queensland government has handed down its final assessment of ways to potentially shore up the Granite Belt’s water supply.
But after Storm King Dam...
