AFTER a combined workshop with Mount Gambier based South East Concert Band and a performance at the well-organised and well-attended Sandford Bush Music Festival, the Casterton Vice Regal Band is in full swing with preparations for a full calendar of community performances.
THE Harrow Horsemanship Challenge is back next weekend and organisers hope to draw a large field of junior riders and a curious crowd, on top of the usual competitors.
FILL up those wool packs and make sure the kids keep those cans – Victoria is about to join its neighbours in South Australia with its own container deposit scheme.
MORE than $80,000 funding has been awarded to organisations across Glenelg Shire – a quarter of that to Casterton district groups – in the latest round of community grants.
THREE South Australian men have been fined a combined total of $4,810 after illegally cutting down trees for firewood in the Nangeela State Forest in September and October, last year.
DRENCHING rain could not deter a dedicated band of locals from pounding the pavement to help raise more than $28,000 – another record-breaking effort – for this year’s Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
WITH Anzac Day commemorations less than two weeks away, Casterton’s RSL Sub Branch is out and about in the community – but not just with the Anzac Appeal.
THE South West District Football League season kicks-off this weekend, with round one to see some enthralling clashes between key teams to welcome-in the 2023 campaign.