27/08/2008 | A LOT of mother’s find it hard looking after a young child.
It is even harder when the family has just moved to a new town, the mother has no connections or the child is unsettled, so to help such families Family Insight a non-government organisation supplies volunteers to help out for two hours a week.
27/08/2008 | Ladies from the Inner Wheel Club, Scone Inc gathered together on Tuesday to have a “Stitch in Day.”
27/08/2008 | SCONE HIGH SCHOOL students and their families bid farewell to a group of Korean boys that they had hosted for 10 days as part of an interschool program.
27/08/2008 | TO help with the cost of providing facilities, camping fees will be introduced for overnight visitors to Towarri National Park and Barrington Tops National Park from September 1.
27/08/2008 | CLOSE to 70 people attended the Virtual Shed speeches on Friday night.
27/08/2008 | THE Australian Institute of History and Art has awarded Hans Van Hees with a Fellow in recognition of his contribution to the presentation of colonial history.
27/08/2008 | Scone educated saxophonist, Tom Barton has recently returned from China where he played in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Orchestra.
27/08/2008 | Most statues are made to honour someone great, and usually they are only displayed after the subject has died.
27/08/2008 | The Scone & Upper Hunter Horse Festival Committee has started planning for the 2009 Horse Festival.
27/08/2008 | The second annual Scone Broodmare Sale will be conducted at White Park this Friday, August 29, with a catalogue of.
27/08/2008 | THE Upper Hunter Shire Council has allocated land for new housing behind the rifle range at Aberdeen, but the land will remain untouched until next year.
27/08/2008 | THOROUGHBRED breeding is set to start on September 1 and major studs around the region have been bringing out their prized stallions for broodmare owners to consider breeding with.
20/08/2008 | Scone teenager Ashley Smith will pack her bags and head for the UK next year.
20/08/2008 | The NSW Fire Brigades Scone held a long service medal presentation at Scone Fire Station on Tuesday.
20/08/2008 | When 22 year old Cassie Newsome delivered her anti drug message at the Scone High School on Thursday, the students paid attention.
20/08/2008 | Charlotte Drake-Brockman is a popular and well know artist in Murrurundi, but an art exhibition currently held at Haydon Hall is her first Upper Hunter solo show.
20/08/2008 | THE RACE has started for the local government elections that will be held on Saturday, September 13.
20/08/2008 | UNTIL something is done about the trains running through Scone, a former resident has done his part to make things easier for people who need to cross the lines.
20/08/2008 | SCONE jazz musician and football fan, Stuart St Hill is getting ready to dust off his trumpet and perform in front of 27 000 people with his band later this month.
20/08/2008 | THE SCONE SALE yards are set to undergo a review so they will remain one of the top 10 saleyards in the state.