GALLERY: Jamie Lyon Nine’s NRL School Competition
On Thursday September 19, 2024, school teams from across the Group 21 Upper Hunter region converged on Olympic Park in Muswellbrook for the Jamie Lyon Nine’s competition. St Joseph’s Catholic College, Aberdeen, V Scone High School in the 14’s girls competition St Joseph’s Catholic College, Aberdeen, V Scone High School in the 16’s boys competition […]
Start Your Career As A Cop
The NSW Police Recruitment Roadshow will hit Muswellbrook next weekend to give the community a look at all the options available in the force.
Postie Bike is an Event for Everyone
What started as some workshop banter between team members at DK Heavy Plant Services has become an exciting community event. In a few weeks’ time they will host a postie bike challenge from Muswellbrook to Nundle to raise funds for R U OK. “They all have a common love of getting out on their bikes […]
Muswellbrook Set for TV & Movie Nostalgia Festival
Muswellbrook is preparing for a massive weekend when the TV & Movie Nostalgia Festival comes to town on September 6 and 7. Various venues around Muswellbrook will be holding a range of events, including: a TV & Movie themed Triva Night, a TV & Movie themed Karaoke Night, a 70s Saturday Night Fever Disco Night, […]
Hunter’s Pump Trach Potential Realised
Racing pushbikes in various forms is nothing new for Nich Shields, so it didn’t take much convincing for him to enter the Velosolutions Pump Track World Championships Australian Qualifying Round on the weekend. The pump track in Muswellbrook has recently been completed, which coincided with entries to the Dungog event being open so he decided […]
Muswellbrook Earthquakes Could Continue
It has been a week since the Muswellbrook area was literally rocked by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday, August 23, and there is every chance the aftershocks we have been experiencing will continue for months, if not longer.
Earthquake Hits Muswellbrook
A magnitude 5 earthquake has caught the attention of residents across the Hunter at midday today, Friday August 23. Geoscience Australia has reported the epicenter to be just south of Muswellbrook, near Edderton Road and at a depth of 10 kilometers. Local schools were evacuated as a precaution, with St James Primary School requesting that […]
Revving up for Muscle in the Brook
Mullets have been growing, rocker cars being built, and cars and bikes being polished in preparation for Muscle in the Brook. There will be more room for the vehicle displays, more food and more for kids to do according to organiser Allan Nightingale. “I have tried to add different things for the kids to engage […]
Community Help for Students to Attend Their Formals
Celebrating the end of a significant school chapter is something that all students should be able to do, but affording to attend formals is not always possible. But community initiative Formally Yours in the Upper Hunter aims to help alleviate the financial stress by collecting donated formalwear to pass on to students in years 6, […]
Red cross Celebrates 110 Years in Muswellbrook and Denman
Muswellbrook and Denman Red Cross will celebrate 110 years in the local community with a display of memorabilia and photos will be held at the Muswellbrook Library from Monday 12 August to Friday 16 August 2024, in collaboration with the Muswellbrook Historical Society and Denman Red Cross. The community is invited to visit the library […]
Speedbowl Sells Out
There were sellout crowds at the Lake Liddell Speedbowl over the long weekend for the POWRi Racing Australia Microsprint National Titles. Across Saturday and Sunday nights competitors from as far as Perth juked it out for the title, with Murrurundi’s Cooper Norman and Singleton’s Bailey Carter flying the local flag in the juniors. Cooper shared that […]
Wow, it’s our 100th Edition!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
On June 19, 2020, we published the first edition of The Hunter River Times and today, we deliver to you our 100th edition.
New Haven Home for Blackroo
For three years the Blackroo Community Indigenous Corporation has been operating out of volunteers’ sheds, spare rooms and anywhere else they could find space. But this week they officially opened the Blackroo Community Haven in Market Street in the old Fire Station. It was an emotional morning for Blackroo community engagement officer De-anne Douglas who […]
Fundraiser for Wade
BY JESSICA ROUSE The Muswellbrook Rams will host a fundraiser for their player Wade Mckenzie to help with his recovery costs after an incident that left him in hospital in a critical condition. Wade remains in the John Hunter Hospital undergoing treatment after being knocked out during the Rams Group 21 Rugby League game last […]
Muswellbrook Rams player making “positive progress”
BY JESSICA ROUSE Muswellbrook Rams player Wade Mckenzie (right) is making “positive progress” after a horrific incident in the last ten minutes of the Rams game against Denman on Sunday afternoon. NSW Ambulance Paramedics were called to Olympic Park just after 3:30pm on Sunday after Wade went to make a tackle and was knocked out. […]
