Ride ’em hard, Cooper
ALLORA'S Cooper Rafton on Demon at last year's Stanthorpe campdraft at the Stanthorpe Showgrounds. Last year's event was held in May after being postponed...
Airport takes off
By STEVE GRAY
WELLCAMP airport will be a “game-changer” for farmers on the Southern Downs, according to government and agriculture heavyweights.
Queensland Minister for Agriculture John...
Local leads farmers
By STEVE GRAY
TIME just seems to move faster for Brent Finlay than it does for the rest of us.
It was just seven years ago...
Vital road link
By STEVE GRAY
IT’S been dubbed the worst road in Australia, but it was also the only route from north to south left open during...
Protest bid on rates rise
By STEVE GRAY
THE Tenterfield Progress Association is circulating a Letter of Protest as it continues to fight huge proposed rates increases.
The Tenterfield Shire Council...
Rotary turns on display
ROTARY will be promoting its activities at Rose City Shopping Centre in Warwick this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Members of the Warwick Sunrise Rotary Club...
Operators plot strategy
By STEVE GRAY
IDEAS generated by local tourism operators at a think-tank in Warwick will be captured and included in a new tourism strategy, said...
Scott MP, 24 years and counting
THERE'S life in the old pollie yet.
Now in his ninth term in the federal parliament Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott yesterday said retirement wasn’t...
Urbenville rallies to aid injured feller
IT was just another day at work, a week before Christmas, when things went horribly wrong for 32-year-old Urbenville timber worker Troy Hill.
“Troy cut...
Celebrating golden days
CLIFTON High School turns 50 this year and from an inauspicious beginning the school has developed into a respected learning institution.
When the new...
Exploring outcrops out in the field
By KRIS CARNELL
THE Stanthorpe Field Naturalist Club took its first walk of the year, an exploratory walk to Slip Rock, one of the high...
Can you lend a hand?
GRANITENET, the online community for Stanthorpe and the Granite Belt, is in need of volunteers.
As a 100 per cent not-for-profit organisation run by volunteers,...
Lion bites woman in ‘inexplicable’ zoo attack
A woman has had her arm bitten in a gruesome incident at the Darling Downs Zoo after a lion lunged and "inexplicably" attacked her.
The...
