TRAINING and competitions have been heavily impacted by coronavirus, but some sports have returned to some normality in recent weeks.

THE Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) was initially scheduled to get underway today with the first round of A grade games, but a decision last month pushed the start of the season back by four weeks.

GOLD medals are hard to win at any time, but Hamilton’s Steph Farquharson has collected a victory at the Lents Taekwondo Worldwide Sports Online Open in one of the first major tournaments following the coronavirus pandemic.

IN a normal year, local communities would be rallying for the culmination of the football and netball seasons, however this is far from a normal year and in September 2020 the roar of the crowd, the cheers and the tears, are sadly missing.

FARMERS across the Southern Grampians Shire are campaigning for a “fairer rates system” under the shire’s new council.

AFTER being sold in April 2019, rumours have been circulating in the community over the delayed opening of the Dunkeld service station.

IT was a “quiet and solemn” affair at the Hamilton Police Station as local police officers commemorated the lives of their colleagues on National Police Remembrance Day.

THE Greater Hamilton region is being showcased in all its glory in homes across Victoria and South Australia with the launch of the new ‘Inspired by Locals’ campaign earlier this month.

HAMILTON locals will now be able to get all their Indian spice needs locally, with the opening of Singh Spice Hut on Gray Street.

VICTORIA could see its path out of COVID-19 brought forward, after restrictions in Melbourne were eased yesterday.