Category — Upper Hunter

Scone McDonalds (from Hunter Valley Newsroom/2NM 981)

They’ve been talking about getting a McDonalds in Scone for years now, and finally it’s happening.

It will be on the outskirts of town though, so it will more than likely aim for the travellers (as will the Red Rooster and petrol station) rather than townsfolk I’d imagine. At least it’ll bring more jobs into the town, so that can only be a good thing.

In addition to NBN’s story on the parade, I found this video montage of the event set to Robert Miles’ “Fable”. Nicely done!

Scone is currently in the closing stages of the 2008 Scone Horse Festival, and here’s some video of some of the festivities, namely the festival parade and today’s Scone Cup. Both are from NBN News.

I’ve created a new Twitter page, combining all the Upper Hunter news feeds into the one Twitter account. You can start following “upperhunternews” at:

http://twitter.com/upperhunternews

Muswellbrook fast food store sorry for Food Act breach (from ABC News)

That’s the nearest KFC to Scone! I can’t believe the KFC store I go to the most (which isn’t much) was found guilty of breaching the Food Act. I hope they’ll clean up their act in the future.

Ronalds not at McDonalds (from Muswellbrook Chronicle)

OK - I know the statue of Ronald McDonald in question (It is the nearest McDonalds to Scone). That thing isn’t light.

Who’d want to steal a Macca’s statue?

As I’ve reported over at The Spy Report…

ABC Local Radio has relaunched their network of station websites this morning. Formerly known as The Backyard, the network is now known as ABC Local.While the websites have only just been relaunched this morning, with many not fully operational, such as 1233 ABC Newcastle’s webpage, an idea of what content will feature on the websites has already been discovered.

An example of such is featured in this post, with ABC Upper Hunter’s website already partially functional. This example features a full program schedule, a RSS feed of Upper Hunter news headlines, as well as presenter photos and biographies.

The main regional site (see second image) contains feature stories, news headlines, links to other sites in the ABC network, and a rotating header with local images (such as the Campbells Corner building in Scone demonstrated in the second screen shot).

The conversion to the new website should be completed within the next twenty four hours.

MediaSpy discussion: ABC.net.au

Here’s the Upper Hunter website below.

The colours aren’t too bad, loving the new RSS feed of just Upper Hunter stories, instead of combining the two newsrooms in Muswellbrook and Newcastle.

To check them out for yourself, go to abc.net.au/local, and or the ABC Upper Hunter site, go abc.net.au/upperhunter/radio.