TARRINGTON Lutheran School (TLS) was recently delighted to welcome a special visitor, Mr Jan Schürmann to educate Grade 5 and 6 students on his ancestor, Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann.

WITH high summer temperatures still persisting, Ambulance Victoria (AV) paramedics are urging Victorians to stay cool to avoid heat-related chest pains, and other related illnesses.

GRIEF is a subject many people avoid, but for Australian writer/director Ben Pfeiffer, his own journey through dealing with and facing the loss of a parent, and seeing his three older siblings each deal with it differently, has become the inspiration for his first feature-length film, ‘The Returned’.

MOBILE phone customers of Optus - and third-party telcos using their network - have been left without services in Hamilton over the last five days after a major upgrade to a local tower required a temporary outage, with full service not set to be restored until the weekend.

THE Nationals leader, David Littleproud has criticised the Australian Government for keeping farmers in the dark regarding the phasing out of live sheep exports.

THE National Rally Against Reckless Renewables led by farmers and regional communities last week at Parliament House in Canberra put the government’s 82 per cent renewables target by 2030, in the spotlight.

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

EXPERIENCING the resilient agricultural systems in Timor-Leste has not only made Campbell Watt grateful for living in a first-world country such as Australia but inspired a new passion to help others thrive.

FOR the seventh year, the Koonara Wines Summer Fiesta is back in Hamilton and will be held at the Hamilton Botanic on Gardens on Friday, March 15 from 4.30 to 9pm.

COLERAINE’S Peter Francis Arboretum has been buzzing with activity in the few months since its committee gained the right to independently manage it.