THE Nationals have raised the issue of bank closures in regional communities in parliament, calling on the minister for regional development to support regional towns to ensure vital local banking services remain.
HAMILTON KANGAROOS has begun the long climb towards the summit of the Hampden Football Netball League as it took on the might of the reigning premier, Koroit, at Victoria Park on Saturday.
LAST week the Live4Life community held its first Crew led event for the year, launching their new theme, ‘The hardest climb is doing it alone - we’re stronger together’.
THIS last week was a busy week at Parklands Golf Club on Saturday with the annual anti-cancer event and the final two rounds of the ladies open championship won by Irene Box in a play-off from Kelly Hitchcock.
SOUTHERN Grampians Shire Council will host a Reconciliation Week Morning Tea on Thursday, June 1 to bring together members of the First Nations community, council leaders and the public to build knowledge, understanding and celebrate reconciliation in the region.
FOLLOWING Saturday’s fatal car accident at Bochara that claimed four lives, Lee-Ann Elmes, mother of one of the deceased, Joshua Elmes, spoke about dealing with the grief and how she wanted to bring the situation from “tragedy to legacy”.
WITH recent changes to south-eastern South Australia’s football landscape, Casterton-Sandford could be joined by Portland and Hamilton across the border.
THE Hamilton community is in mourning following the loss of four locals who tragically died when a vehicle they were travelling in left the road and struck a tree on the Wannon-Nigretta Falls Road at Bochara in the early hours of Saturday morning, May 27.
VICTORIAN Farmers Federation (VFF) Livestock Group President Scott Young is urging farmers to give the electronic National Vendor Declarations (eNVD) a go.
WARROCK Road residents are furious that the promised re-start date for rehabilitation works on the bridge crossing the Glenelg River at Roseneath, came and passed without a single minute of work logged on the project.