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Sixty years of entertaining
THE Lake Charm hall hadn’t seen such a turnout in a very long time. Packing the seats and crowding the entrances, they had come from near…
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Connecting to country
BOORT and the surrounding marshes, lakes and rivers are culturally and spiritually rich.For thousands of years the area was home to the first people of…
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Performances with a splash
ARTISTS are packing their bags for touring across the State and Australia, as Regional Arts Victoria’s 2019 touring roster gets moving.Some of them are coming…
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Wildlife refuges in dry times
THE current community focus is rightly on the state of water quality and the health of fish across the northern Murray-Darling Basin, but important work…
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Bridge windfall for hospital
THE triumphant staging of the new-look Bridge to Bridge sporting carnival has provided a healthy windfall for Cohuna District Hospital.The hospital has received a donation…
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A ‘new way’ of politics
INDEPENDENT candidate for Mallee Cecilia Moar, who visited Kerang this week, has been travelling the vast electorate advocating “a new way of doing politics in…
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NSW food fight
THE defeat of The Nationals’ incumbent in the New South Wales electorate of Murray represents a major victory for food producers and has sent shockwaves…
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Roaming Rove back home
ROVE, a 6-year old male golden retriever and his human family, who have been apart since January 23, have been reunited some 250 kilometres from…
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Nationals’ pledge to ‘listen’
MALLEE candidate, Anne Webster pledges to “listen to the locals” if she is elected at the Federal election.The endorsed Nationals candidate said during visits to…
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‘Ad hoc decentralisation’
THE announced relocation of Murray Darling Basin Authority jobs to Mildura, Griffith and Murray Bridge has been labelled an act of desperation by independent Mallee…
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Xterminator dominator in canoe race
A DOUBLE kayak named Xterminator was guided by John Young and Dominic Scarfe to overall victory in the inaugural Black Swan paddling marathon along the…
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Gay Charmers entertaining 60 years
MUSIC has taken them around the nation, entertaining countless numbers of people with their own unique brand of old-time dance music over the past six…