THE Port Fairy Folk Festival will return next month with a four-day mini-series despite its bigger iconic festival being pushed to 2022. With a range of local performers ranging from Warrnambool, Terang and Colac, the intimate festival will run over the March long weekend. Port Fairy Folk Festival program director, Justin Rudge said it was […]

RULES requiring Victorians to wear masks indoors have been reinstated after a hotel quarantine worker contracted COVID-19. Premier, Daniel Andrews announced the new restrictions including limiting gatherings at homes to 15 people during a late-night press conference on Wednesday. “If you have any symptoms... the only thing for you to do first thing tomorrow morning […]

FORMER AFL player and assistant coach, Garry ‘Buddha’ Hocking, visited Hamilton Kangaroos training on Thursday night in a boost for the group about a month out from its first practice game. The former Geelong Cats player, who was set to coach Collingwood’s VFL team in 2020 before COVID forced the season’s cancellation, returned to a […]

MATILDA Mason and Zoe Addinsall continued their tetrathlon success, both winning their age groups at Maffra on Australia Day. Working towards the state show jumping and dressage competition later this month, Addinsall and Mason are travelling across the state for weekly competitions and success is following. Addinsall competed in her usual tetrathlon (running, swimming, shooting […]

JAYDEN Riddle will be eyeing off the Victorian Silver Welterweight Title when he returns to the ring on March 20 for his biggest professional boxing bout to date.

THE Moyne Shire is calling on the developer of the Hawkesdale Wind Farm to heed the community’s concerns over wind farm setbacks.

AROUND 130 people from the Southern Grampians Shire are diagnosed with cancer each year, with 52 locals losing their lives to the disease according to new data from the Victorian Cancer Registry Data. Today marks World Cancer Day, a global initiative that raises worldwide awareness and improves education around cancer preventatives.  This year’s theme, ‘I […]

A GENEROUS gift of land in Dunkeld to be used for new campus of an unique school concept remains in limbo despite calls for the State Government to greenlight the project.

ROWERS converged on Lake Wendouree last weekend for the 2021 Wendouree Ballarat Regatta.

A CONCERNED Glenthompson farmer contacted The Spectator about local road damage recently and claimed the shire wasn’t acting quickly enough to fix the problem. Ross Stewart said he contacted the Southern Grampians Shire in November about the condition of Back Bushy Creek Road, yet little had been done. “We thought the road was quite dangerous,” […]