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Sunehra Ahmed

Planning proposal delayed

BALRANALD Shire Council has deferred making a decision on the renaming, rezoning and heritage listing of a number of properties in the municipality. A planning proposal to amend the Balranald Local Environmental Plan (LEP) was brought to a council...

13 Nov 2024

News

Have a Murray Little Christmas

SWAN Hill Rural City Council has joined forces with Swan Hill Incorporated to encourage not-for-profit groups and organisations to register Christmas events across the region in 2024. The initiative aims to bring the community together to celebrate...

12 Nov 2024

News

Getting spicy at Euston salami festival

SALAMI connoisseurs gathered by the Murray River at Euston for the annual Great Murray River Salami Festival on Saturday. Salami-making demonstrations and salami vendors aside, the festival had something for everyone with various market stalls, food...

12 Nov 2024

News

Crafting a difference one stitch at a time

A NEEDLE and thread are Dr Tal Fitzpatrick’s weapons of choice when fighting for social justice. Currently on display at Swan Hill Regional Library, the travelling exhibition Changemakers: crafting a difference, displays eight of Dr Fitzpatrick’s...

09 Nov 2024

News

Flush golf chip a bowl lot fun

PEOPLE attending the New South Wales Open golf tournament will have an opportunity to fire off their best golf chip into a toilet bowl for a chance to win a $1000 Swan Hill Incorporated gift card. From November 14 to 17 at the Murray Downs Golf and...

08 Nov 2024

Community

Punjabis celebrate Festival of Light

INDIANS and South Asian diaspora all over the world celebrated their biggest holiday ‘Diwali’, also known as the festival of lights, last week. In Swan Hill, Diwali celebrations took place at the Anglican Church on Saturday October 26. The event, with...

08 Nov 2024

News

Tasty affair as salami festival returns

THE Great Murray River Salami Festival is coming back to Euston this Saturday. Located on the Murray River at the Euston Club Resort’s Riverfront Reserve, the festival grounds will have a variety of food and drink vendors, market stalls and salami...

08 Nov 2024

Arts and Entertainment

Black Sorrows play at Town Hall

FRONTMAN of The Black Sorrows Joe Camilleri is getting ready to perform in Swan Hill on Friday night, which is his second show of the band’s current tour around the country. However, Camilleri doesn’t consider it a tour.“It’s just what I do,”...

08 Nov 2024

Community

What’s on in the district

Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows at Swan Hill Town Hall. Tickets are available online: swanhilltownhall. com or in person from Swan Hill Town Hall booking office or Swan Hill Region Information Centre. All evening: live music featuring...

07 Nov 2024

News

Leftover metal sculptures take flight

GOODNIGHT artist Steve Cole has been making sculptures from anything he can find for a long time, but now he doesn’t even have to look beyond his own backyard.“People around here know what I’m doing now and they give me all sorts of stuff,“ he...

06 Nov 2024

News

Hatchback, tipper truck head-on collision

A DRIVER of a small hatchback was airlifted to Melbourne with critical injuries after a head-on collision with a large tipper truck last Tuesday on Leitchville-Kerang Road. The vehicles collided at approximately 5:40am on October 29 between Mead and...

05 Nov 2024

News

Juniors have write stuff

YOUNG writers from 10 local schools in Swan Hill and surrounding areas interpreted the theme “Flood” for this year’s Young Writers competition. On Wednesday evening at Swan Hill Regional Library winning and highly commended entries were...

02 Nov 2024