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Picnic was the perfect meeting 65 years ago
KEVIN and Patsy Cleeland met on a Sunday school picnic with Swan Hill’s Church of England when they were teenagers. Their romance didn’t begin until…
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Parents get sloppy with sun protection
PEOPLE are getting sloppy with sun protection, according to alarming new data. To mark National Skin Cancer Action Week, Victorian adults and parents of young…
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Cafe owners want answers on parklets in Swan Hill CBD
THERE are mixed feelings amongst Swan Hill cafes about a proposal to create outdoor parklets. Parklets are an idea put forward by Swan Hill Rural…
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Header, crop destroyed in Ultima fire
A HEADER in its third season of harvesting was destroyed in a blaze that spread to crops across several properties in Ultima last week. Country…
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Victoria Police Deputy Commission is ‘impressed’ with Swan Hill’s summer bushfire preparedness
A TOP cop says the Mallee activates the most types of emergency preparedness for Victoria Police across the state. Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent visited Swan…
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Vic Government needs to invest in rail: VFF
VICTORIA’S peak farming body is calling on the Victorian Government to to head back to the drawing board after a disappointing budget result for regional…
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Fruit juice health rating plummets
CITRUS growers in north-west Victoria say a move to lower the health star rating of fresh orange juice from five stars to as low as…
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Murray Basin Rail Project caught in budget impasse
THE $440 million Murray Basin Rail Project is stuck in no man’s land after the political blame game over who is responsible for funding it…
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Digging in to lend a hand
A TEAM of skilled environmental workers has taken on the war against weeds across the Swan Hill and Gannawarra shires. Under the auspice of North…
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A life lived with community at heart
DENNIS Michael Cox was born in Sea Lake on October 19, 1973. The fifth child and second son to Nola and Henry Cox, and brother…
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