Street revamp loan approved
TENTERFIELD’S main street will undergo a further revamp after Tenterfield Shire Council (TSC) secured a low-interest loan.
TSC was successful in obtaining a NSW government...
New push for bag ban
NEWS that France will ban single use plastic bags in supermarkets by 2016 has renewed calls for Southern Downs residents to act on the...
Homosexual convictions expunged
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has welcomed the passage through the NSW Legislative Assembly last week of a historic piece of legislation removing homosexual...
Hospital highlights
Highlights of DDHHS’s performance in 2013-'14:
$1.2 million refurbishment of Stanthorpe Hospital Maternity Unit
$0.36 million Palliative Care Suite and Quiet Room at Goondiwindi Hospital
Increase in...
Hospital on healthy course
THE DARLING Downs Hospital and Health Service (DDHHS) has been given a clean bill of health with its second annual report recently tabled in...
True cost is now clear
SOUTHERN Downs Regional Council (SDRC) has apologised for an error in water charges appearing on its website, which the Free Times used last week.
"Council...
Socially speaking
FACEBOOK and Twitter visionary Nick Bowditch is coming to Warwick on 3 November to speak at an innovative Young Entrepreneur’s Seminar that will inspire,...
Swamp dam in pipeline
EMU Swamp Dam has featured prominently in the Federal Government’s Agricultural Competitiveness Green Paper released on Monday.
The proposed water infrastructure project was among four...
New Methodist pastor
WARWICK’S Wesleyan Methodist Church has welcomed a new pastor.
Reverend Doug Baigrie was installed by Reverends Rodney and Heather Hall from Toowoomba Wesleyan Methodist Church...
Power struggle with union
By ALENA HIGGINS
ELECTRICITY prices will rise sharply in the Southern Downs if the Newman Government returns to power and implements plans to slash almost...
Troubled waters
By ALENA HIGGINS
BOTH sides of the water fluoridation debate put forward their differing views on the practice at two information session held at Stanthorpe...
Rodeo royalty
ERICA Geppert has been crowned 2014 Warwick Rodeo Queen in a Casino Royale themed presentation evening at the Douglas Feez Pavilion on Saturday night....
Sheep and lamb markets lift
Agents and vendors saw an increase to 2153 head for the weekly sheep and lamb sale at Warwick Saleyards.
The market yarding was varied...
