HAMILTON’S History Centre scored this week with a donation from a former Hamilton Courthouse employee, in the form of an old courthouse desk.

SALVATION Army Portland invites the community to help out families in need at this time of year.

TWO more men have faced the Hamilton Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday in relation to a brawl that took place in the early hours of Christmas Eve 2022 outside the Caledonian Hotel in Hamilton.

JAMES McCallum and Russell Murphy from the Hamilton Men’s Shed have supplied games and activities such as beanbag toss, noughts and crosses, and Connect Four to entertain all ability people at the Better Together Festival at the Hamilton Botanic Gardens on Saturday, December 2.

EVERY year for the past 30 years David Upton has played Santa for the people of Portland. He doesn’t arrive in town in the traditional way, wearing a jolly red suit or sitting in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, but rather, riding a Honda ST1300.

FOLLOWING the recent release of the Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) draft Small Towns Strategy (STS) and the invitation for community feedback on the document, residents of one of the towns covered in it have taken issue with multiple parts of it, one going so far as to call it “appallingly sloppy”, and another claiming parts were directly taken off Wikipedia.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC crowd turned up for the four-day Glenthompson Art Show to see some of the best creative work in the region.

HAMILTON has been named Victoria’s 10th highest hotspot for storm damage in the past financial year and with storm season upon us, the Bureau of Meteorology is warning Australians they’re in for severe weather this summer.

LAST week Ambulance Victoria’s (AV) Coleraine branch celebrated 60 years of operation.

SOUTHERN Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) and the Hamilton Regional Business Association (HRBA) are celebrating the start of the festive season by urging businesses and traders to get creative and take part in the Christmas Window competition, which is now open.