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News ArchivesPLEASE note the story published below on July 31, 2019 was found to have inaccurate claims including that Hamish Le Poer Trench owned two blocks in Phillip Street which were the subject of a rezoning application.
A Current Affair was in Scone today interviewing local icon Betty Shepherd who is fighting against a Council proposal to zone part of her street industrial.
NOMINATIONS for official Australia Day awards across the Shire have dwindled over the years, with nobody nominated for many of the awards.
BETTY Shepherd, the world’s first registered female horse trainer and life-long resident of Scone, may have had no problem in breaking the glass ceiling,
COUNCIL is holding a workshop on Tuesday to help people learn to kick their plastic habit,
THIS month Council will begin audio recording their monthly general council meeting and publish the files to their website within the week.
FOLLOWING air quality complaints, the Upper Hunter Shire will be issuing letters to 750 Scone households warning them of the health impacts of excessively smoking chimneys and advising residents on better wood fire efficiency.
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THE Council meeting on Monday began with an impromptu announcement from the Hon., Michael Johnsen MP that the Council had been successful in a grant application for phase one of the Scone Revitalisation to the tune of $2,965,782.
THE Upper Hunter Shire Council met last night and key decisions included Council passing a motion to donate money from the water fund to truck water to farmers to a maximum of $3,000 per month to farmers until more than 50 percent of the Shire is not in drought.