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Peace prize win

By SONJA KOREMANS A WAR veteran from Warwick has won the distinguished national 2015 RSL Anzac Peace Prize. Fred Hyde, a 2015 Member of the Order...

Girls on show

By JOYCE MARSH (WOODENBONG CORRESPONDENT) AMY Kearney has been named Miss Woodenbong Showgirl in the newly returned competition held at the show on...

Field day for punters

IT was blue skies, a strong contingent of local horses to cheer on, and eager punters at Warwick’s RSL Memorial Club Race Day Allman...

Name popped on poppies

  ANZAC Day commemorations began early in Warwick this week with residents paying tribute to World War I veterans during an exhibition in the lead-up...

Soldiers settled on the land

  By ROBERT MACMAURICE SOLDIER settlements were seen as one of many ways to repatriate soldiers back from service in World War I. The Pikedale (Amiens), Stanthorpe...

Cricket’s still cruel

By CASEY O’CONNOR INDIAN cricket is in mourning after promising 20-year-old batsman Ankit Keshri died early Monday, three days after suffering a head...

Treating their broken minds

  By GEORGIA WESTGARTH IT’S been more than 80 years since the Kyoomba Sanatorium last treated returned World War I soldiers and this year the Stanthorpe...

Centenary surge

  By SONJA KOREMANS RECORD crowds are expected at Warwick region's Anzac Day services to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings where Darling Downs soldiers...

Games galore to pay tribute

By CASEY O’CONNOR AS WE head into Anzac Day, there is plenty of conjecture surrounding the scheduling of games this weekend. Some question...

In Brief

In brief Dinner date In last week’s Free Times, the date of A Dinner of Friendship in Stanthorpe to mark the centenary of Gallipoli...

Home side wins nailbiter

By SONJA KOREMANS WARWICK dominated the biggest event on the national polocrosse calendar this year, with the club taking out the prized Shell...

What’s On briefs

Art in the mill IT hardly seems like 15 years ago when a group of local artists approached Pedro and Brenda Curr with the preposterous...

PM to make COVID-style address to nation on fuel crisis

The prime minister will make a pandemic-style address to the nation on the fuel supply crisis, as a cut to the fuel excise kicks...