THE Hamilton Kangaroos have finished the 2022 Hampden Football Netball League season with a big win against Port Fairy at Melville Oval on Saturday.

A TARRINGTON family who wished to find - and personally thank - the stranger who stopped to alert them that their house was on fire at 6am one morning 2 weeks ago, have since been able to express their appreciation to the man identified as Andy Craig of Hamilton.

SOUTHERN Grampians women benefited from a digital open day held at the Hamilton Library last Tuesday.

AGENTS yarded 4491 head at Hamilton on Wednesday, a decrease of 1182, where the quality diminished on last week’s market with more plainer unfinished lambs on offer and carrying less weight overall.

NATIONAL Herd Development (NHD) south-west sales representative and breeding advisor, Dylan Jewell from Hawkesdale, has been recognised by the National Herd Improvement Association of Australia (NHIA), winning the Young Achiever Award and claiming $2500 in prize money.

THE Hamilton and District Gymnastics Club set a big group of girls to the recent Stawell Invitational event with plenty of success.

A NEW agribusiness report into intergenerational farming has revealed more than three quarters (77 per cent) of farmers are optimistic about the future of farming, at a time when Australians continue to flock to the regions.

THE Lifeblood Mobile Donor Centre will be in Hamilton from Monday, August 22 to Friday, September 2 and there are still times available for anybody to book to make a life-saving donation.

LOCAL hockey player, Tom Templeton, is set to take his game to another level, selected in the Victorian Under-13 team to play in Tasmania next month.

WANNON Water undertook works at the corner of Thompson and Lonsdale Street (out the front of the Commercial Hotel) starting Thursday, August 18, with works completed on Friday, August 19.