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Local ladies dazzle in best dress for Melbourne Cup Luncheon

Ninety people from around the district dressed to the nines and flocked to the Brookstead Hotel on Tuesday for another delightful year of the Melbourne Cup Luncheon.

6 November, 2026

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Oakey Police attended the crash at Kingsthorpe.

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Alleged road rage incident causes crash

The new housing estate will be located next to Oakey Creek out of the flood zone.

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Chamber backs in Lorrimer St estate

A team from Greenmount State School with the trophy awarded for ‘Engineering Excellence’ during the Clifton Cluster regional Lego Robotics competition at Back Plains.

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Local schools compete at Clifton Cluster regional Lego Robotics competition

McNab has taken out the Commercial/Industrial Building ($10 million to $25 million) award for the Novus Precast Manufacturing Facility in Toowoomba.

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Wellcamp manufacturing facility earns McNab state construction honours

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The Take Note ensemble singing I Got the Sun in the Morning from the musical Annie Get Your Gun. Back from left: David Fahl, Frank Goodall, Murray French, Colin Carmichael, Lindsay Proudlock, (front) Maggie Littler, Andrea Trubody, Cecelia Krieg, Brenda Prentice, Helen Everingham, Robbie Daley, Roslyn Hartwig, Sue Price and Vicky Barrett.

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Take Note delights with musical renditions

From left - Presenters and Organisers: Greg McKee (McKee Farms), Kerry Millard (SQ Landscapes), Cameron Leckie (Regional Soil Coordinator), Madeline Grummitt (Cambooya Landcare), Karen McWhinney (SQ Landscapes), Dr Payel Sinha (SQ Landscapes), Roger Sneath (DPI Beef Extension), Hugh Reardon-Smith (Cambooya Landcare) Lisa Fritz (Cambooya Landcare) Michael Walker (Cambooya Landcare) Glenn Knight (Cambooya Landcare).

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Cambooya Drought Resilience Event

Karara’s Historic Train Station’s future is up in the air as Southern Downs Regional Council splits over what to do with the old building.

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Rebel councillor Richters splits from SDRC on Karara Train Station future

With their school graduation photo in the background, students from the class of 2006 reunited at the high school’s auditorium on Saturday. From left: Danina Stower, Jessica Symonds, Nicole Goulter, Brendan Ott, Nicholas Gordon, Scott MacFarlane, Timothy Goulter, Josephine Goulter, Belinda Petersen, Fiona Roach, Elle Short, Peter Cumming and Andrew Herron.

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Former classmates reunite 20 years on

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Lots of fun was had at Hodgson Vale's Oktoberfest.

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Oktoberfest at Hodgson Vale Sports Club

Watching the Melbourne Cup with anticipation at the Pittsworth Hotel Motel, 2025.

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Ready for the races

David Coburn.

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Ex-One Nation candidate says his party is better prepared to handle success 28 years on

The Warrego Highway at Oakey was covered with water twice in successive days. Photo, Suzette Compton.

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When it rains, it pours

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