Tag: News
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...
Rates rise push
By STEVE GRAY
DECADES of infrastructure neglect are behind Tenterfield Shire Council’s push to hike rates by 84 per cent over the next decade, a...
Town goes pink for unicyclist
By STEVE GRAY
TENTERFIELD turned out in the colour pink colour to greet unicyclist Samuel Johnson on Tuesday afternoon.
The actor is riding the unicycle around...
Time to take a stand
By STEVE GRAY
IT’S time to stand up and be counted, Warwick.
The mayor has taken up the challenge to combat domestic violence, supported by local...
Ratepayers to reap benefits of emission-slashing landfill deal
Southern Downs Regional Council has struck a deal with a renewables group to cut methane gas emissions at the Warwick dump at no cost...
