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Fine wine time

FOR the second year in a row, Robert Channon Wines have won the Provenance Trophy at the Queensland Wine Awards for their reserve chardonnays. This...

Landcare opens up

By JONATHON HOWARD THE Border Landcare Organic Group (BLOG) has joined forces with Granite Borders Landcare to host a Community Open Day this Saturday, 21...

Fred faces biggest test

By JONATHON HOWARD WARWICK identity and remarkable Australian, Fred Hyde OAM AM, who established 45 schools to educated thousands of impoverished children in Bangladesh, is...

Outbreak flags horror season

By JONATHON HOWARD A GRASS fire that threatened several properties at the corner of Lyndhurst Lane and Glen Road was quickly contained last week -...

Lucky escape for horror head-on

By JONATHON HOWARD THREE people are lucky to be alive after they escaped a horror head-on accident 30km west of Warwick near Durakai east of...

Artists shine

THE Willow Gallery at Killarney hosted a retrospective exhibition of paintings by local artist Jane Durand at the weekend. The exhibition was opened by Nancy...

Art director quits

By JONATHON HOWARD THE latest Stanthorpe Art Gallery manager has announced her shock resignation from the role - less than six months since she took...

Taste of life on the land

A GROUP of more than 150 TAFE students from migrant and refugee backgrounds visited Warwick TAFE Campus last Wednesday as part of TAFE Queensland’s...

Roadworks alert

THERE will be changed traffic conditions along the Cunningham Highway, between Aratula and the helipad near Clumber, until early November. Motorists can expect minor traffic...

Rates error solved

SOUTHERN Downs Regional Council CEO, Andrew Roach, has sought to ease concerns about a computer error which re-issued several rates bills to residents who...

$2m eftpos giveaway

EFTPOS is calling on Southern Downs residents to help choose which worthy causes should receive a share of up to $2 million that will...

Breath tests

Police Reports POLICE from Stanthorpe have been involved in pre-holiday traffic enforcement over the past couple of weeks performing increased random breath tests and interception...

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‘Absolute disgrace’: CEO’s sudden axing while on holiday sparks outrage

A former mayor has labelled the Southern Downs Regional Council’s sudden axing of its own chief executive while away on holiday as an “absolute...