scone.com.auArchive for January, 2017
News ArchivesINITIALLY Ausgrid estimated 600 homes were without power last night in the Upper Hunter following an intense thunderstorm,
FELICITY Henderson was one of 36 students beginning kindergarten at Scone Grammar school today.
All schools across the Upper Hunter began the academic year today,
THE Bureau of Meteorology recorded 48 millimetres of rainfall in Scone yesterday, with 30 millimetres falling within a 15 minute period during the thunderstorm.
THE SES had more than 15 call outs and more than 1200 homes were left without power following a hail storm in the Upper Hunter yesterday.
THE thunderstorm has brought hail the size of golf balls to Scone this afternoon.
If you have video of the storm to share,
IN the next hour Scone and parts of the Upper Hunter can expect thunderstorms with the chance of heavy rains,
THE first blackhawk helicopter in commercial operation in Australia has flown out to Ballarat this morning,
JOHN Paul Young was the Australia Day Ambassador in Merriwa yesterday and recalled his first Australia Day after moving from Scotland and what being Australian means to him.
YESTERDAY well-known local racing identity the late John Arthur Clift was honoured with an Order of Australia.
MERRIWA doctor Bronwyn Helen Stokes knew she was going to receive an Order of Australia medal before she died in November last year and her husband said she was very proud.