Election may hang on stadium and other top stories.

• Election may hang on stadium

  

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• Revving up the pace to race

  

  Townsville's Joshua Smith, 18, is placed 3rd on the v8 touring car series after finishing 2nd last weekend. Picture: Zak SimmondsJOSHUA Smith is wasting no time becoming Townsville’s next big motor racing prospect.Smith, 18, was runner-up in last weekend’s second round of the V8 Kumho Tyre Australian Touring Car Series, and is now eyeing off first place in what has been an incredible step up from the go kart ranks.Finishing the season’s opening round in eighth place after driving through an oil ..

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• Cowboys continue Townsville dominance

  

  North Queensland favourite Ray Thompson bagged a double in his 100th NRL game as his Cowboys walked away with a convincing 46-16 demolition of Newcastle on Saturday evening.Celebrating his milestone in front of a healthy 1300SMILES Stadium crowd, Thompson slotted into the five-eighth spot vacated by Michael Morgan seamlessly, with the Queensland utility leaving Wednesday's State of Origin early with concussion.With all the confidence in the world, Thompson scythed through a huge gap on the righ..

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• Schenscher comes up big

  

  Townsville Heat's Mirko Djeric has a dicussion with Gladstone's Raymond Willis. Picture: Evan MorganLUKE Schenscher has announced his arrival in the QBL with a sensational double-double off the bench as the Townsville Heat overcame Gladstone 101-96 at Townsville Basketball Stadium on Friday night.The 216cm centre showed his class in a strong team performance with 20 points and 10 rebounds as Townsville stretched their unbeaten run to six games.The visitors scored the first basket and led by as m..

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• Tribute to Blackhawk tragedy

  

  Giverny Tombs, 23, was the daughter of Brett Tombs who was killed in the Black Hawk Crash 20years ago. photograph : Russell ShakespeareIT WAS the moment that tore apart the heart of Australia’s elite Special Air Service counterterrorist unit.But survivors of the 1996 Townsville Black Hawk crash believe it was also a moment of truth for the Australian Defence Force.Eighteen men – 15 highly trained SAS soldiers and three aviators – died in the nation’s biggest peacetime military disaster in the mi..

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• Early aims of festival endure to our pride

  IT is with pride – and a little sadness – to see that Townsville is staging another Pacific Festival.There is pride because my father, John Raggatt, was the founder of the original Townsville Pacific Festival which I think was staged first in 1970, although it was proposed a few years earlier.There is sadness because Dad passed away in 1994 and my mother, Pam, in 2010, and they are not here to see it today.I know they would be pleased to see the name used for this weekend’s events to mark the 15..

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• Photos put faces to a city's story

  

  Cesar Herrera and The LensCap crew artist Margot Douglas are putting artwork up around the city.THE faces of a bygone area will be plastered across Townsville as part of celebrations to mark 150 years since the city was declared a municipality.Temporary images of photographs will be pasted up in locations around Townsville throughout June as part of the Families of Townsville project.The portraits of Townsville’s founding families will be installed in suburbs they were named after or those of wh..

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