SOUTHERN Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) awarded the demolition contract of 90-92 Lonsdale Street for the Community Hub at the ordinary Council meeting on Wednesday, December 11.

BRANXHOLME-WALLACEDALE Football Netball Club (BWFNC) has secured more than a million dollars to upgrade its Branxholme Recreation Reserve facility.

SOUTHERN Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) has taken significant steps toward improving accessibility and modernising public facilities, awarding a contract during the December meeting to design and construct a changing places facility in the Hamilton Botanic Gardens (HBG).

TARRINGTON locals have again used their artistic flair to decorate a hay bale, a unique tradition which has run for 15 years and drawn many a holiday maker and sightseer to the town.

AFTER three Olympic and four Paralympic campaigns, Hamilton’s Milly Tapper has called time on her illustrious career.

REGIONAL households will be hit up for an extra $60 a year on average, to help fund emergency services as part of a series of tax hikes being introduced by the Victorian Government.

ONE of the questions we get asked on the myriad of health questionnaires that we have to fill in at the doctors, chiropractors or for x-rays is - do you are any of your family have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

THE risks of improper hay baling and/or storage have been underlined yet again by the CFA after multiple devastating haystack fires destroyed bales in separate parts of the state recently, including one near Caramut on Monday morning.

DISAPPOINTING spring pasture growth in Western and Northern Victoria means farmers are turning to alternative feed sources to help ewes regain condition after lambing.

A look back at previous editions of the paper 50 and 25 years ago