A MERE 11 days remain until the 2022 Victorian Trimax Sandgreens Championships at the Parklands Golf Club on August 27 and 28.

RESPONDENTS to a Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) Youth Strategy survey, aged between 12-25 who live, work or study in the Shire, have the chance to win a $100 voucher to spend at a local business.

THE first instalment of rocks has arrived at the Penshurst Volcanoes Discovery Centre (VDC) for the new rock garden funded by the Southern Grampians Shire Council, part of a $330,000 upgrade to the VDC to take place over the next six months.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD has cemented its place in the Mininera and District Football League finals with a 145-point win against the Pumas at Moyston on Saturday.

REGIONAL Victoria could soon see its first Music Conservatorium established in Warrnambool after a group of passionate local musicians, teachers, festival creatives and community representatives joined forces to propose the idea.

THERE was a slight increase in last week’s cattle market as agents yarded 55 head, with the yarding being majority cows; the usual buyers were present.

IT was yet another game which could have gone either but, but the Hamilton Kangaroos have gone down to Camperdown by 18 points in their Hampden Football Netball League (HFNL) round 17 clash at Melville Oval on Saturday.

IT’S not every morning of the week that you’d be happy to be awoken at 6am to a stranger banging on your front door, but Loretta Enderby and her husband Wes, of Tarrington said they shall be eternally grateful for the unexpected awakening alerting them that their house was on fire.

CAVENDISH has moved closer to premiership glory, winning through to the South West District Football Netball League (SWDFNL) grand final after defeating Coleraine in the second semi-final at Dartmoor on Saturday.

CONTROVERSIAL Facebook posts by a part owner of the restaurant business at the Port Fairy wharf over the weekend, alleging the incompetence of a Moyne Shire Council staff member, prompted a statement by chief executive, Brett Davis, to refute the claims early Sunday morning.