Big program for Rodeo Week
Rodeo Week in Warwick, where the best in the worlds of rodeo and campdraft converge for a week of unparalleled horsemanship and skill at...
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...
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,...
Popular auction scrapped after more than a century
It’s a Wednesday morning at the Warwick pig and calf saleyards and a large crowd has gathered to bid on all sorts of second-hand...
