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...
Rodeo music stalwart to play
NORMA O’Hara Murphy, winner of a National Songwriting Award and Golden Guitar Award Winner has been contributing her brand of rodeo inspired music to...
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...
Bloomin’ marvellous
By ALENA HIGGINS
WINNERS were grinners at the Warwick Horticultural Society’s annual Spring Flower Festival presentation ceremony last week.
Deputy mayor Ross Bartley was on hand...
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...
All in for festival fun
THE 2014 Warwick Rose and Rodeo Festival aims to provide family friendly fun for all ages with this year’s addition of two competitions aimed...
Sparkle in the skies
It’s the final 80km endurance horse riding event of the year for Queensland and it had everything - riding for points, riding to win,...
