scone.com.auArchive for December, 2018
News ArchivesAT approximately 8:15pm the Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to assist a 78 year old pilot of a light plane who had to make a forced landing in a paddock near Aberdeen and praised locals who witnessed the incident for their quick response.
Dear Scone,
My wife and I visited Scone on Thursday 20th of December.
ON Christmas Day at approximately 6:30pm a 51 year old Scone man was found face down and unconscious in a private swimming pool.
MAGISTRATE Soars again made mention of the disproportionately high number of drink driving offences in a town the size of Scone. She explained that mid-range offences will carry with them a mandatory interlock period which is an expensive process and that she had begun imposing no drinking conditions as part of conditional release orders, meaning if any alcohol is found in the persons system they will have breached the order and be brought back before the court.
THE Kingdon Ponds Rural Fire Brigade are excited to announce Santa will once again be making time to hand out lollies to the children of Scone,
Mr Jesus C. Bebita, called “Jess” by his friends, was a school principal in the Philippines,
THE storm which tore through the Upper Hunter last night brought more wind than rain,
THE storm which just passed through the Upper Hunter has brought trees down and electricity throughout Scone.
THE wild dog control program in the Upper Hunter has culled the 100th problem dog in 12 months,
IN the past 24 hours some parts of the Upper Hunter received more than 50 percent of the average December rainfall and more storms are possible later today.