Tourism body dumped
SOUTHERN Downs has stopped providing funds to the region’s peak tourism body Destination Southern Downs and will form an “in-house” group to help with...
Students deliver the care
FIFTEEN Warwick State High School students recently gave their Saturday morning to help the Zonta Club of Warwick.
The 15 young women worked with Zonta...
Wilting under tax
SOUTHERN Downs farmers face an uncertain time with the Federal Government announcing they will push back the introduction of the backpacker tax until next...
Fair share of scare
THE Warwick Showground was turned into a house of horrors with all the fun of the fair - well the scary fair.
The region's teens...
Riders battle for club pride
THE sound of thundering hooves echoed around the rolling foothills of Killarney on the weekend as competitors from all over Queensland and down into...
Hat from China, miner, deep sea diver
EAGER readers will gather in schools, libraries, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country to simultaneously read I Got...
Shop, sit and savour seasonal produce
THIS weekend, the Warwick Seasonal Feast markets kick-off in their new location, the Warwick Art Gallery garden courtyard.
The relocation to this bright and open-air...
Foretaste of university life
SOUTHERN Downs students were among more than 400 senior high schoolers who visited USQ Toowoomba on Friday.
Year 11 and 12 high school students from...
Tradition lives on at races
By TANIA PHILLIPS
A 122-YEAR tradition continued at the weekend with the Warwick Turf Club hosting the annual Picnic Races on from noon on Saturday.
Turf...
Democracy – best of the worst
By LAWRENCE SPRINGBORG
“DEMOCRACY is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”.
This was...
Tradition off and running
By TANIA PHILLIPS
A 122-year tradition will continue this weekend at the Warwick Turf Club for the annual Picnic Races on from noon on Saturday.
Turf...
Remy’s on target
By JOYCE MARSH, WOODENBONG CORRESPONDENT.
WOODENBONG’S Remy Leonard has taken gold in the Australian Field Open Archer competition held as Sherbrooke, Victoria.
Competing against competitors...
Endeavour worker celebrates leap into mainstream employment
After nearly three decades Warwick man Jeffery Rogers has taken the big plunge into “mainstream employment” and is loving it.
The Endeavour Foundation employee spent...
