Jacaranda trees are a treat in any street
THERE’S plenty of purple around our towns right now with jacaranda season in full bloom. Free Times gardening columnist BEATRICE HAWKINS shares her musings...
Pub’s countdown to Christmas
THE Darling Downs Hotel is more commonly known as the Sandy Creek Pub.
It is situated about 10km outside Warwick on Sandy Creek Road at...
New push for rail tourism
By Jeremy Sollars
CALLS to transform the Warwick railway station precinct into a tourism hub have been re-ignited, and the Southern Free Times is backing...
To market, to market
THE inaugural Yangan Farmers’ Markets were held last Sunday 13 November in the picturesque village east of Warwick. TERRY WEST went along to check...
HotShots put the heat on
THE boys from the Sydney HotShots heated up the Warwick RSL on Saturday night - Free Times photographer TERRY WEST was there and politely...
Plenty of action at Wattles Rodeo
A GOOD crowd turned out for last weekend’s Wattles Rodeo fundraiser at the Allora Showgrounds and TERRY WEST was there to snap some shots...
Take a spoonful of cement guys
By Casey O’connor
THEY are saying 2016 is the Year of the Upset, so take heart Aussie cricket fans - perhaps there is still an...
Comedic band’s old favourites
By Tania Phillips
THEY were Queensland’s premier live act in the '80s and '90s - making people across the state and indeed across Australia laugh...
Enriching study in the US
IT’S not every day that you get to spend four weeks travelling around Pennsylvania with four other women in pink blazers.
Registered nurse and midwife...
Music festival ends on positive note
By Jeremy Sollars
ORGANISERS of Stanthorpe Rocks music festival have pulled the pin on the event’s future after its fourth year.
The 2016 festival at Ballandean...
Rail precinct’s future in the balance
By Jeremy Sollars
QUEENSLAND Rail has quashed local rumours it plans to sell off the sandstone goods shed at the Warwick railway station precinct and...
Fresh produce from ‘food bowl’
By Jeremy Sollars
FROM little things, big things grow - that’s the inspiration behind the Yangan Farmers’ Markets which held its first event last Sunday,...
Water bombers deployed as grass fire encircles Karara
Water bombing aircraft have joined the fight to defend a small township west of Warwick from fires that forced roads shut, triggered a school...
