BAYVIEW College students had a whale of a time participating in the 2024 Tournament of Minds regional and Victorian state finals recently. The set challenges were sent out six weeks before the regional finals, and a team of six Year 7 and 8 students had to invent a device to deal with plastic pollution, and […]

IT’S one of life’s great pleasures to watch birds and hear them whether they are up in the sky or darting from branch to branch in a garden, or out in the bush.

WESTERN Victoria Primary Health Network chief executive Craig Wilding recently said that work is continuing on the headspace Hamilton centre and will be able to commence early 2025.

HAMILTON’S Georgina Morrison has been nominated for a 2024 Victorian Community Achievement award for demonstrating leadership and innovation with her pioneering project, The Creative’s Toolkit.

MONIVAE College Year 9 student, Shannon Mhasho demonstrated an outstanding effort last Wednesday when she won first place in the Legacy Junior Public Speaking State Finals in Ballarat.

THE Hamilton CBD Parking Policy was put forward at last week’s Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) Ordinary Council Meeting regarding changing the times of paid parking in the CBD.

UNEXPECTED, but pleasant news has arrived at Bolwarra Primary School - they have been gifted $50,000. The generous donation is from the estate of Bolwarra resident and former Bolwarra Primary School student John Hanlon, who passed away in August last year. Acting principal Julie-Ann Kelly said the school was delighted to receive the very generous. […]

LAST week Glenelg Council conferred Australian Citizenship on 11 Shire residents. The ceremony, which took place at Glenelg Council’s Portland office, saw Mayor Karen Stephens formalise the residents’ transformation into Australian citizens. The newly minted citizens were supported by family and friends as well as attending councillors. Dr Rakesh Patel, who originally hails from India, […]

SUBJECT to town planning approval, provision for a new café near the current playground at the Lakes Edge development site is an exciting new prospect for Hamilton.

IN a world of ceaseless chatter, clarity of expression is priceless.