MOUNT Gambier trainer Belinda O’Loughlin had a red-letter day with a double at Casterton on Saturday.

IN March this year, eight singers of the Australian Chamber Choir (ACC) performed to a capacity audience in Dunkeld.

WHILE leaden skies, cool winds and forecast temperatures stuck stubbornly in the low teens belie the fact, spring approaches.

IT wasn’t just the farmers who had plenty to see and do, with Paw Patrol giving parents a reprieve and offering some alternate entertainment on Sunday.

FEATURE breed for the Hamilton & Western District Sheep Show at Sheepvention 2023, the Suffolk, did not disappoint in terms of the number entered and of quality exhibits.

MININERA and District Football League followers will not know which team will grab the final spot in the race for the finals until the final round is run and won after round 15 of the home and away competition was completed on Saturday with three teams still in contention.

VICTORIA’S next generation of sheep shearers are kick-starting their careers with access to more affordable training and technology-based learning, thanks to a State Government initiative.

IT is finals season for some teams already with the Hamilton Kangaroos facing off in the Under-16 and Under-14 qualifying finals, while the women’s team battled it out for a spot in the Western Victoria Female Football League grand final at the weekend.

MERINO midwife Heather Harris has left home twice in her life; once when she was 17 to study nursing in Hamilton and again at 52 to work with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an intermittent journey that would span 11 years.

TREVOR and Kathy Mibus, Glenara Merinos, Dunkeld, continue their reign, winning Supreme Champion Merino Ram again this year with their ultrafine wool ram sired by a new bloodline from Conrayn Merinos in New South Wales.