Game of chicken
By ALENA HIGGINS
ABOUT 60 concerned residents turned out to a public forum on poultry farm developments at Warwick on Monday night.
The meeting at the...
Maritime might
By ALENA HIGGINS
STANTHORPE’S PTS Kookaburra navy cadets have welcomed an exciting new addition to their unit, compliments of a government grant.
The premier youth organisation,...
Car in ram-raid
By ALENA HIGGINS
A TOWNSVILLE man who ram-raided a Warwick car dealership and stole a car from the showroom floor has been remanded in custody.
Police...
Graffiti crimes
In brief
TENTERFIELD Police are appealling for witnesses after a spate of graffiti which has been occurring around town in recent times.
Police reported several buildings...
And brakes are off
By JOYCE MARSH (WOODENBONG CORRESPONDENT)
WOODENBONG will be one of the hosts to the Gold Coast Tweed Motorsporting Club’s Brakes Direct Border Ranges Rally this...
Powerline route narrows
By ALENA HIGGINS
THERE has been another development in the proposed secondary powerline from Warwick to Stanthorpe, with Ergon Energy determining a fifth line route.
Based...
Conference stimulates debate
THE 80 delegates who attended the Australian Local Government Women’s Association (ALGWA) Queensland conference at Warwick last week have walked away felling "renewed, refreshed...
Power to the people
By ALENA HIGGINS
REGIONAL communities are poised to reap the most from environmentally-friendly developments and should "actively encourage" such profitable investments to the Southern Downs,...
Cool it on bins
SOUTHERN Downs Regional Council is reminding residents that hot ash from fireplaces should not be placed in domestic wheelie bins or taken to waste...
Cycleway to Saddlers estate complete
Council briefs
TENTERFIELD’S footpath and bikeway along the banks of Tenterfield Creek has been extended to Tenterfield Dam and Saddler’s Estate.
Council’s engineers used the contribution...
Time to retune
FREE-to-air TV channels in Stanthorpe and Warwick will change frequencies today while viewers in Goondiwindi will retune on 7 August.
The move will free up...
Chicken out
By ALENA HIGGINS
A GROUP of local landholders fiercely opposed to the development of a large poultry farm near Pratten has called an urgent public...
Meeting the king of Serbia
I recently wrote the story of Sergeant John Fleet of the 15th Battalion who was awarded the French Medaille Militaire which was established in...
