Road map for council
TENTERFIELD Shire Council (TSC) will use the Rural Council model to investigate its capacity to be “Fit for the Future”.
The decision comes after the...
Senator says dam it
By ALENA HIGGINS
ONE of Queensland’s newest senators has voiced his support for the Emu Swamp Dam and Inland Rail projects while touring the region...
Fete brings back play
By ALENA HIGGINS
THE Maryvale community has helped raise more than $3000 towards the restoration of the school’s play equipment at a fun-filled fete and...
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...
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...
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...
Good field for Monthly Medal
Stanthorpe
A good field of 44 golfers set out to compete in the Monthly Medal on Saturday 6 September.
While the course is starting to at...
