MACARTHUR & District Lions Club will be winding up after more than 50 years with the Market Street building freehold and a number of items up for sale.

ACCORDING to Agriculture Victoria, most of the state has experienced an extremely dry autumn and now even when rain has fallen, soil temperature may have become the main factor limiting pasture growth.

PRECEDING Refugee week that runs from June 16 - 22, the Hamilton Area Rural Australians for Refugees (HARAR) will be hosting a presentation by an Afghani migrant who fled Afghanistan in 2002 after the Taliban took control.

CALLING all environment lovers interested in helping to plant 2300 native trees.

ANIMAL collisions have increased by 22 per cent year-on-year according to new claims data from a national insurer.

TO celebrate its 40th birthday, Meridian Agriculture held a seminar last week in Hamilton, looking back at the past four decades and forward to the future of farming in Australia.

AMBULANCE Victoria (AV) has been experiencing a significant demand due to seasonal illnesses circulating throughout communities and has asked Victorians to help busy paramedics by saving Triple Zero (000) for emergencies.

LAST week, Year 12 Baimbridge College Vocational Major (VM) students organised a Biggest Morning Tea event with the goal of raising $1000 for cancer research and also to complete several outcomes to attain their VM VCE certificate.

AS we gear up for a long weekend, motorists are being reminded to take care when sharing the road with trucks, with statistics showing car drivers are at fault in more than three-quarters of fatal crashes involving a heavy vehicle.

THE light of early mornings and evenings, in particular, stirred Clarice Beckett’s soul.
She captured that essence in luminous paintings of silver ocean at moonrise and pink whispers of sunsets and, just as evocatively, wet nights and grey days, soft green trees and brilliant blue or storm-tossed seas.