CLUB championships are well underway at Hamilton Golf Club, as the men have now completed two rounds and the A grade leader is Wayne Riddle.

WITH the recent Australian record of 59,487 sheep tags scanned on sheep sold in one day last December at the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange, it may be of interest to many local graziers to learn that the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) concept has a significant potential technological augmentation on the horizon.

AFTER closing the doors for the final time earlier this year, Café Catalpa owners, Colin, Heather, and Michael Hilsdon donated the final day takings to the Western District Health Service (WDHS) MRI for U&I Appeal.

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is a day for recognising and celebrating women and their achievements, but it also invariably brings with it a fresh round of triggering statements, more hollow rhetoric and ongoing calls for gender equality.

THE penultimate week of the Hamilton Basketball Association (HBA) season is drawing to a close with senior preliminary finals played on Wednesday night, filling the second grand final spot ahead of next week’s season deciders.

HAMILTON residents are being urged to fill up with some petrol stations already charging at and above $2.

A YEARLY tradition continues this weekend with the Johnny Mullagh Championship Cup set to be played once again at Harrow on Sunday.

THERE have been further detections of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) across the state, with cases now confirmed at six piggeries in Victoria.

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THE 87-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted two male victims in Mortlake 40 years ago has been identified as paedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale.