Call to cut water use
By STEVE GRAY
SOUTHERN Downs residents are being asked to ease up on their water use.
Consumption across the region is over the five year average...
The winner is…
SOMETIMES the man wins, sometimes the bull.
Rodeo and Show Society Vice-president Shane Roche said this year’s rodeo and campdraft “was on a par with...
Up, Up and Away
By STEVE GRAY
“IT’S a total punt that it’s going to work,” John Wagner said.
Some punt.
Mr Wagner was speaking of his family company’s 24/7 project...
Rangers remembered
By STEVE GRAY
Last week’s item on the Cunningham Rangers equestrian show brought memories flooding back for a pair of sprightly veterans ...
THEY may be...
Zonta paints town pink
STANTHORPE’S annual Pink Dinner drew a capacity crowd to hear guest speaker, Emeritus Professor Roger Willis give his perspective as a husband of a...
Quick go the shears
THEY called Jackie Howe the Bradman of the Boards, and like the Don’s cricket bats, Jackie’s shears are icons of Australian history.
A set of...
Phone rings for Ringneck
By STEVE GRAY
LAST week’s Free Times story about an Indian Ringneck Parrot in eucalypts on the banks of the Condamine in Warwick drew quite...
90 and raring to go
By STEVE GRAY
A 90th birthday can’t hold Pat Hurley back.
Mrs Hurley lives independently and continues to run beef cattle, still driving into Killarney where...
Police hunt for truckie
POLICE are seeking assistance from the public in relation to a fatal crash that occurred overnight between Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September...
Sunny country
SUNNY Romana is one proud Australian.
Born Gursharan Singh Romana in Rajasthan, India, he came to Australia in 2006.
Sunny studied and worked to become a...
Weighty issue causes alarm
By STEVE GRAY
AN alarming 70 per cent of people in the region are overweight or obese, according to the according to the National Health...
Plan “threat” the farmland
By STEVE GRAY
THE Queensland government’s Darling Downs Regional Plan released last week has failed to impress either farmers or environmentalists.
Both groups say the plan...
The art of St Marks
For one weekend a year for the past 13 years St Mark’s Anglican Church hall has become one of the focal points of art...
