PARKLANDS Golf Club’s hole reversal project is a significant step closer to reality with the installation of reticulation for the scrape surrounds on the new seventh and eighth scrapes.

BRANXHOLME-WALLACEDALE has welcomed back a pair of netballers to the club in a boost for its South West District Football Netball League (SWDFNL) A grade finals hopes in 2023.

THE end date of the ongoing Cox Street roadworks and the ripple effect of trucks driving down North Boundary Road were among the subjects discussed at last week’s Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) meeting.

THE Victorian Country Cricket League (VCCL) has unveiled its first Hall of Fame inductees, with the Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) represented with former long-serving president, Kevin Myers, and current executive committee member, John Donegan, honoured.

THE Hamilton Lions Club is donating $30,000 to the Western District Health Service (WDHS) MRI Appeal.

THE Hamilton Gallery is set to get a significant upgrade in its internal ambience with the Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) voting last week to install both modern lighting and climate control systems midway through this year.

AS people across the Western District celebrated Valentine’s Day yesterday by spoiling their loves ones with gifts and special dinners, local businesses were busy making sure the day went off without a hitch.

THERE has been a livestock saleyard in Warrnambool since 1883, with the current site in Caramut Road established in 1970.

A WOMBAT spotted stranded on a half-submerged tree stump in a lake near Yarrawonga in Victoria’s Central Murray region was given an impressive rescue last week by a former Hamilton resident and Monivae College student.

A real old fashioned treat. Always a winner.