Local News

Sep
23
2025
By Newsroom
Bake Sale Brings in Over $5,000 for Charity!

Bake Sale Brings in Over $5,000 for Charity!

Local News,
What a morning! The community came together in spectacular fashion on Sunday, raising an incredible $5,019.90 at the Friendly Faces Helping Hands Bake Sale at The Coffee Incident café. The energy was electric as locals streamed through the doors, enjoying home-baked treats, barista coffees, and a sizzling bacon brioche BBQ — all while supporting a wonderful cause. Organisers say costs were minimal thanks to the generosity of many: Local bakers who donated their finest creations. Reg and Lorraine Miller, who supplied all the milk for coffees. Bruce Family Butchery, who donated the bacon for the BBQ. A dedicated café team…
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Sep
22
2025
By Eve Chappell
Our Local History: Polio and the Iron Lung

Our Local History: Polio and the Iron Lung

Local News, ,
Seventy years ago, in April 1955 after his invention developed from killed polio virus had been tested in one of the largest clinical trials in history, American virologist Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent’. It was an unprecedented scientific breakthrough in the control of the spread of one of the most dreaded diseases of the 20th century. Polio, or Poliomyelitis, also known as Infantile Paralysis, is a highly infectious viral disease primarily affecting the nervous system, with flu-like symptoms, brain inflammation, and in severe cases, paralysis.  In 1964 Albert Sabin’s oral polio vaccine administered as…
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Sep
21
2025
By Newsroom
Great Global Greyhound Walk 2025

Great Global Greyhound Walk 2025

Local News, Rural, Sports
The Great Global Greyhound Walk (GGGW) is an annual dog-walking event that brings together sighthounds and their owners to raise awareness of sighthounds as pets. Beginning as the Great British Greyhound Walk in 2010, it expanded over time to involve other sighthounds and become a global event. In 2024, a total of 13,383 sighthounds walked at 511 events in 42 countries around the world. In addition to the relatively well-known greyhounds, whippets and Italian greyhounds, the sighthounds category also includes lurchers, deerhounds, wolfhounds, salukis, Afghan hounds, borzois and the Spanish galgos podencos, and Ibizan hounds. For what we believe is…
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Sep
18
2025
By Brendan Moylan MP
GRANT HELPS COMMUNITY CENTRE SERVE UP IMPROVEMENTS

GRANT HELPS COMMUNITY CENTRE SERVE UP IMPROVEMENTS

Local News,
Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan is pleased to announce the Glen Innes and District Community Centre’s kitchen is set for a huge upgrade with funding from the Community Building Partnership program secured. The GIDCC is a valuable part of the community which provides meals, social networks, services and more to a wide range of local people and groups. The centre dishes out many meals per week and their meal preparation will now be a lot easier with a $51,571 grant to refurbish and update the current kitchen facilities.  “The Glen Innes and District Community Centre provides an important service by…
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Sep
15
2025
By Newsroom
Housing Awards Finalists – Justin Power Constructions

Housing Awards Finalists – Justin Power Constructions

Local News
Justin Power Constructions is a local Glen Innes Building team who has been recognised for excellence in the construction industry. This year the team at Justin Power Constructions, submitted three entries into the 2025 HIA Northern NSW Housing and Kitchen & Bathroom Awards.   All three entries have been named finalists and now will compete against the industry’s best at the upcoming awards night, to be held in Coffs Harbour. The finalist categories are:- Finalist Country Home Finalist Custom Built Home Finalist Kitchen of the Year Justin said “Being named a finalist in multiple categories at the HIA Northern NSW Housing…
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Sep
11
2025
By Newsroom
A night of silk, rhythm and fire in the heart of the Highlands

A night of silk, rhythm and fire in the heart of the Highlands

Local News,
🌙✨ Shimmy in the Glen – Dance, Create, Evolve 2025 ✨🌙 On Saturday 13th, the Glen Innes Services Club will be transformed into a desert dream — a place where silk and shadow entwine, and the heartbeat of the drum calls you to journey eastward. Doors open at 5.30pm, with performances beginning from 6.00pm and the grand showtime at 6.30pm. Once each year, Glen Innes is gifted a jewel of a night: a shimmering spectacle where Australia’s finest bellydancers gather beneath our own lights. From the elegance of Egyptian classics to the fire of folkloric traditions, the pulse of sha’abi,…
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Sep
11
2025
By Eve Chappell
Our History – The Power House

Our History – The Power House

Local News
An Open Day on Sunday 20 September from 9am to 4pm is a great opportunity for us to tour and consider adaptive re-use of the Power House at the rear of the Town Hall. ‘Adaptive reuse is the process of repurposing old buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features.’ To briefly shed some light on our power history: In 1884 the streets were illuminated by 25 gas lamps, but lighting these could be dangerous. Lamplighter Henry Wheeler suffered a broken wrist 1897 when he was thrown from the horse he was standing on to light the lamp on…
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Sep
08
2025
By Newsroom
Another Strategy, Another Survey – You Can ‘Shape the Future’

Another Strategy, Another Survey – You Can ‘Shape the Future’

Council, Local News
Economic Development Strategy & Destination Management Plan Glen Innes Severn Council has once again brought in outside consultants – SC Lennon & Associates –fully funded, through a grant, to review and rewrite the town’s Economic Development Strategy and Destination Management Plan. The idea is to build on the last set of documents and produce something “visionary, practical and evidence-based”. According to Council, these two shiny new strategies will steer the region’s economic and tourism priorities for the next five years. In other words, another round of big-picture plans that may, or may not, translate into actual projects on the ground.…
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Sep
07
2025
By Newsroom
Huskies Set for 2025 Touch Football Season

Huskies Set for 2025 Touch Football Season

Local News, Sports
The Glen Innes Huskies are preparing to launch their 2025 touch football season, with strong growth in player numbers and representative honours highlighting the sport’s rapid rise in the region. All events are held at Wilson Park in Glen Innes. Since affiliating with NSW Touch Football last year, the local competition has gained access to statewide representative pathways, referee and coaching development, and organised tournaments. Club president Gus Macrae said affiliation was essential to give local players exposure. “We could see the talent and potential of so many kids in our town – they were missing out and needed to…
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