HAMILTON Police have put the call out for motorists over the long weekend for the King’s Birthday to take extra care with reduced daylight and wintry conditions affecting visibility on our roads.

ROUND seven of the Hamilton Basketball Association (HBA) Division One competition produced some high-scoring results during the week with teams vying for a spot at the top end of the ladder as the second half of the season begins.

HAMILTON teenager, Rylan Pech is the latest in a long line of local sportsmen and women to have earned a Victorian Championship in their sports with Pech claiming the Under-18 Junior Boys Victorian Indoor Bowls Championships singles title at Warrnambool recently without being defeated.

FOR once, Western Victoria MP Beverley McArthur is seemingly on the same side as the Victorian Government over duck shooting, following the closure of three wetlands to shooters in the Surf Coast Shire.

EPA Victoria has warned residents that illegal waste dumping is on the rise, and has encouraged responsibility from locals to keep an eye on where their skip bin loads of renovation waste and hard rubbish are going.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD has held off a determined Caramut at Dunkeld Recreation Reserve on Saturday in round seven of the Mininera and District Netball Association (MDNA) 2024 A grade season in a game that ebbed and flowed between the two teams before the home side prevailed, 50 to 43.

SOUTH West Coast MP Roma Britnell has launched a parliamentary petition opposing the proposed merging of South West Coast health services.

ON SATURDAY we had the pleasure of playing golf using the recently completed, newly reversed seventh and eighth holes, as the new scrapes and tee blocks had their first official use.

FROM 8:30am - 9:30am this Saturday and Sunday, the Hamilton and District Veteran Vintage and Classic Drivers Club (HDVVCDC) cars will be on display at the Hamilton Showgrounds.

HAMILTON is one of more than 1000 locations across the country that will be safer thanks to improved mobile network resilience funded through the Federal Government’s Mobile Network Hardening Program (MNHP).