FROM a distance the Parklands Golf Course appears dressed in a verdant blanket, but this belies a still hard surface underfoot.

WITH about two months until the 2024 Dunkeld Writers Festival, the launch is set for tonight to go through the planned program for the August event.

AFTER scooping the pool in several events at the Hamilton Eisteddfod this week, Hamilton dancer, 15-year-old, Mia Spong, has landed a scholarship with a place in the 2025 Australian Ballet Summer School in Melbourne.

THE Hampden Football Netball League (HFNL) open netball team tasted the ultimate success for the first time in more than two decades at the Netball Victoria Association Championships in Melbourne on Sunday.

ANNOUNCED early on Tuesday afternoon, the organising committee of Sheepvention Rural Expo has made a strategic decision to cancel this year's Ram Sale.

MAY saw the release of a tight state budget for the coming financial year by the Victorian Government, which didn’t bring any joy for the agriculture sector.

A WORRYING trend of increasing under-insurance of farm buildings and infrastructure has come to light following several years of building cost inflation at rates well above the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

AFTER almost three decades of applying his meticulous skills in service to the Balmoral Angling Club in the position of secretary, local legend, Mick Howman recently made the decision to step down from the role, primarily to “give somebody else a go”.

A look back at previous editions of the paper 50 and 25 years ago

THE Hamilton Field Naturalists Club (HFNC) was very grateful for the efforts of 10 Baimbridge College Year 9 students and their teacher, Ross Hopkins for their voluntary work over six weeks to remove the weedy Acacia paradoxa seedlings and small shrubs from the Wannon Flora Reserve.