Letters to the Editor
10 Jun 10 | The so called Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) is forecast to take around $3 billion from the Hunter economy, $9 to12 billion nation wide.
13 May 10 | WHY must a sorry few ruin a wonderful weekend of festivities?
13 May 10 | AT the recent Upper Hunter Shire Council meeting they supported 65 hectares of land adjacent to our homes at Bottlebrush Place and Honeysuckle Crescent to be rezoned for development on application to the State Planning Authority.
13 May 10 | DEAR King of the Ranges Committee Members and Volunteers, I cannot thankyou all enough for yet another wonderful King of the Ranges event.
13 May 10 | WE were nominated and won in a category at the recent District Business Awards.
13 May 10 | FOR Scottish Week in Sydney at the end of June this year, the clan chief Donald MacLaren of MacLaren the MacLaren’s chief will be the attending the events.
13 May 10 | As a visitor to Scone and having witnessed the Parade on Saturday, I would just like to say how much I and many others enjoyed it.
06 May 10 | IN 2005 when Bickham Coal were first notified they’d have to do a water report before they’d be granted the right to carry out a Part 3A development application, John Richards stood up at the Scone RSL and complained.
06 May 10 | DAVID Foster should stop assuming claiming strong support from residents of Murrurundi.
06 May 10 | THE proposed Bickham Mine is truly magical.
06 May 10 | I RECENTLY attended one of the meetings held in Singleton and Muswellbrook to inform farming families about the potential for growing industrial hemp in the Hunter. Some of those who grew the trial crops during the last growing season shared their experiences and outlined their plans for the future.
06 May 10 | Schizophrenia Awareness Week runs from May 16 to 22 so please note the following information.
06 May 10 | I write in response to Kath Ryan’s letter about the old Digger who was left behind.
29 Apr 10 | I WRITE to yet again set the record straight in relation to misinformation being cast by the anti Bickham lobby.
29 Apr 10 | THE overwhelming response in The Scone Advocate to your report of Thursday, April 15 says it all.
29 Apr 10 | THE Four Corners documentary on the Hunter Valley was a sobering report.
29 Apr 10 | WE note in The Scone Advocate, April 8, that Bickham Coal performed a survey of businesses in Murrurundi, Blandford and Wingen to gauge those businesses view of the proposed Bickham Coal mine.
29 Apr 10 | THE ‘survey’ carried out on Murrurundi businesses as reported in the Bickham Coal Mine press release dated Wednesday, March 31 achieved absolutely nothing as has been proven by the number of comments and emotional outbursts it has generated.
29 Apr 10 | BACK in 1972, the then leader of the opposition Gough Whitlam declared in his Federal election campaign speech that “It’s time,” for change.
29 Apr 10 | THE Scone Chamber of Commerce’s popular design for multiple roundabouts on Kelly St some years back, was echoed in the RTA’s careful and detailed Option 2.