Skills for life
THREE students from Clifton and Warwick schools who have been awarded one of the nation’s top prizes for Year 12 students undertaking Vocational Education...
Retune your TV
By ALENA HIGGINS
SOUTHERN Downs and Tenterfield residents will need to retune their free-to-air television channels in the coming weeks.
Channels will be changing frequencies in...
Substation has the power
THE 60-year-old East Warwick substation is set for a $39 million overhaul in a project slated to start within the next two weeks.
The substation,...
WIRAC grandstand’s up and running
THE structural repair work on the WIRAC granstand is now complete, and the seating area has been re-opened following its closure last year.
Southern Downs...
Rates outrage
By ALENA HIGGINS
A CONTROVERSIAL decision by Southern Downs Regional Council to increase general rate by five per cent and decrease the discount level has...
To the US, by pony express
By ALENA HIGGINS
WARWICK’S Angela Krahe is heading off to America after being chosen as one of only four riders to represent Australia at the...
Killed in ute crash
By ALENA HIGGINS
FRIENDS and family are in mourning after another life was cut short on the notorious Warwick-Allora Road.
A man in his forties was...
MP: ‘bloody idiot’
By ALENA HIGGINS
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has branded himself “a bloody idiot” after being caught allegedly mid-range drink driving at Glen Innes on...
Thirteen take the oath
By ALENA HIGGINS
THIRTEEN community members pledged their loyalty to the land down under last week in a moving citizenship ceremony at Southern Downs Regional...
Murder charge
By ALENA HIGGINS
MORE than three months after Goondiwindi mother Alexis Jeffery was found murdered on the banks of the Macintyre River, police have laid...
Taste of politics
By ALENA HIGGINS
FOUR student leaders from Tenterfield High School got a taste of NSW politics last week, during a guided tour of the oldest...
Man in Black, crowd in rain
By TANIA PHILLIPS
LATE rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the 200-strong crowd at the Ballandean Estate Winery who came along for the “Man In...
Texan ranchers visit Santa Gertrudis heartland in the Southern Downs
Two young Texan ranchers with family ties to the origins of Santa Gertrudis cattle have made a pilgrimage to the Southern Downs, the Australian...
