CASTERTON is celebrating the selection of another local woman on the international sporting arena, with Alyssa Humphries earning a place in the Australian Under 22 Women’s Indoor Cricket team at the National Championships.

FROM Swan Hill to Warrnambool and Horsham to Ballarat, western Victoria’s next generation of long-distance running stars are coming to Casterton.

LOCAL off-road motorcycle sportsmen and women have joined a cast of around 750 riders, to tackle the Aussie outback in the country’s greatest red-dirt challenge.

GLENELG Shire Councillors voted to pass its controversial 2022/2023 budget last week, but protestors against the document’s rate hikes are not silenced, with a rally being planned by unhappy ratepayers.

CASTERTON-Sandford’s A Graders are yet to put points on the board, but in a big weekend against Millicent, the girls again dragged back the deficit and posted their highest score of the season against the ladder leaders.

CASTERTON-Sandford hosted Millicent at Island Park on the weekend but the Saints had most of the play go their way.

THE late Jim Newton’s Bahgallah Football Club blazer has a rich history and thanks to his family, that history will be preserved, to be shared by the community for years to come.

SCHOOL news from Sacred Heart School and Casterton Secondary College. Photos: SUPPLIED

THE State Government has defended its spending on rural roads as several Opposition MPs continue to shine a spotlight on crumbling thoroughfares throughout Victoria.

FREE-rolling steeplechaser, Elvison, led all-the-way to complete back-to-back feature jumps race victories at Casterton on Sunday.