Wolves ready to take on the best of Toowoomba footy
FOOTBALL: Caitlyn Marstella answers a question with a question when asked about her decision to play football for the first time. "Why not?" Marstella said at training for her first season in the sport. She is in training under Derek Kane, the coach who steered the Wolves into the semis in Football Stanthorpe last season. With Warwick back in the Toowoomba competition, Kane has a similar squad to last season with a few new recruits, including Marstella and her cousin Shandell Doro. ..>> view originalAustralian pop star can't wait to play in Toowoomba
AUSTRALIAN singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian is performing in Toowoomba tomorrow night as part of his regional tour. Sebastian decided to tour the regional Australia this year after finding he preferred performing in smaller venues, rather than the large ones used in his arena tour last year. "I guess I got bitten by the bug of just playing in front of a small room, where it's a bit less pressure and you're in towns ... that are so appreciative," he said. Sebastian said he was pumped t..>> view originalToowoomba firie deploys to fight Tassie blaze
A TOOWOOMBA firefighter is among 16 Queensland Fire and Emergency Services staff and volunteers being deployed to Tasmania to help bring a raging bushfire under control.Eddie Lacko will today fly out to Tasmania’s far north-west where an out-of-control bushfire has seen entire towns evacuated and an emergency alert activated for a number of communities.The bushfire has torn through about 7000 hectares including Forestry Tasmania land, and properties are under threat at Nelson Bay and Temma.Mr L..>> view originalMan throws brick at Toowoomba police station and runs
A MAN who threw a brick at the Hume St police station door before leading officers on a foot chase through the CBD has copped a jail sentence. Joshua Stephen James Waters, 31, became angry with police who attended a siege at his Centenary Hts home on Saturday. During the incident, police had turned off his power and smashed a window and the next day he had arrived at the police station demanding police turn his power back on. Told he would have to contact his power supplier, Waters s..>> view originalCr Ros Scotney calls time at Toowoomba Regional Council
AFTER 22 years in public office Cr Ros Scotney has decided to call it a day. She has announced she won't contest the March Toowoomba Regional Council election. Working up to 17 hours a day as the Facilities, Libraries and Cultural Services portfolio leader has taken its toll and Cr Scotney plans to spend more time with family and on commitments in her hometown of Pittsworth. "I feel I'm at the stage in my life where I'm looking to have time to myself," she said. Cr Scotney was inj..>> view originalEx Heritage Bank employee on fraud charges
A FORMER employee of Heritage Bank in Toowoomba has appeared before the city's Magistrates Court on a charge of fraud. Kingsthorpe resident Amanda Louise Young, 31, appeared briefly in court with her solicitor and was formally charged with fraud as an employee. She was not required to enter any plea to the charge and no details of the allegations were aired in court. However, Heritage Bank, through a statement released yesterday to coincide with the woman's court appearance, said ban..>> view originalEmergency services prepare for switch to digital
COMMUNICATION black spots affecting the work of emergency services in the Toowoomba region are being fixed as crews make the switch to new digital technology. Queensland Fire and Emergency Acting Chief Superintendent Eddie Lacko said crews had undergone Government Wireless Network training in Highfields, Crows Nest, Pittsworth, Oakey and Goombungee and Toowoomba. The new technology is designed to give a wireless, clear and secure signal for emergency services, rolling out across the Too..>> view originalHigh-impact crash leaves ute on its roof
A serious two-vehicle crash at the intersection of West and Bridge Sts. MOTORISTS were lucky to escape serious injury in a two-vehicle collision at a busy Toowoomba intersection. A ute was left on its roof while a 4WD was virtually undamaged after they collided at the intersection of Bridge and West St yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the crash with reports a vehicle had rolled just after 4pm. The drivers and passengers in the vehicles were lucky to escap..>> view originalExtreme weather warning: Supercell severe storms
DARLING Downs residents have been warned to brace for a massive storm and 'super cell' expected to reach the region tomorrow, bringing with it damaging weather conditions. Higgins Storm Chasers have issued a warning with a surface and upper trough bringing large hail, up to 8cm in diameter, damaging winds over 90kmhr, heavy rain with flash flooding and frequent lightning. Jeff Higgins said the system would peak on Friday as a very potent storm set up. "As far as severe storm set ups ..>> view originalGallen says pressure on opposing boxer
He's expecting a hostile reception in his latest sporting venture into Queensland, but NSW rugby league captain Paul Gallen has so far been on the receiving end of a charm offensive in Toowoomba. Gallen (4-0, 2 KOs) on Friday is having a rematch of his February 2014 professional boxing debut against Toowoomba-based, Samoa-born Herman Ene-Purcell (7-4, 4 KOs). Ene-Purcell dropped Gallen in the first round of that heavyweight fight in Sydney, but was stopped in the second by the combative Cronull..>> view original
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