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April Austen

New T20 girls team

SWAN Hill and District Cricket Association (SHDCA) will be entering a team into the Wimmera Girls Cricket League for the first time this February. The league is a T20 competition for girls aged 10 to 17 and has been running for two years. Head coach...

15 Jan 2021

News

Highest award to Boga sea scouts

TWO members of the Lake Boga Sea Scouts are set to receive Queen’s Scout Award badges later this month. The badge is the highest award in the venturer scout section (for scouts aged 15 to 18) and hasn’t been...

15 Jan 2021

News

Kitchen’s better infection control

SWAN Hill District Health (SHDH) has installed a new industrial dishwasher in the hospital kitchen as part of upgrades that will further improve food safety and infection control. The new dishwasher features...

12 Jan 2021

News

Lifelong sense of purpose

“ONE of the reasons I teach middle school here is I remember those years as formative years, but also difficult years. I realise what you try to go through as a human being of that age and dealing with all the...

12 Jan 2021

Sport

Ready to tip off

THE Swan Hill Flyers’ Country Basketball League (CBL) teams kick off their seasons this weekend against the Mildura Heat in Mildura. The Men and Lady Flyers teams were officially announced on Sunday. It will be...

12 Jan 2021

Sport

New year joy for trainer

SWAN Hill-based trainer Helen Burns has started the new year off on the right foot with a win at Kyneton on New Year’s Day. Five-year-old mare Capecain secured her first victory after 30 starts in the 2800-metre...

12 Jan 2021

Sport

Leading from the front

CRICKET season has hit its halfway point and Nyah District are sitting third on the A-grade ladder, equal in points with St Mary’s Tyntynder. According to Nyah’s captain Joel Walsh, the team is ready for a big...

12 Jan 2021

Sport

Scramble for tennis hosts

REGISTRATIONS for Tennis Victoria’s Country Week tournament in Swan Hill have surpassed the 200-team capacity, with organisers’ attention now turned to finding places for competitors to stay. The annual...

12 Jan 2021

Sport

Swan Hill fields regional tennis team

SWAN Hill tennis players are entirely making up the Northern Mallee region team for this weekend’s Tennis Victoria Inter-regional Country Championships. The championships are an annual three-day tennis...

12 Jan 2021

News

No alternative for NSW club

MURRAY Downs Golf and Country Club has cancelled their upcoming Reciprocal Golf Tournament due to border restrictions. The tournament was scheduled to be held January 29 to 31 but with many participants in the...

12 Jan 2021

Sport

Swing and giggle for army of dads

TWICE a week, all year round, members of the Dad’s Army golf group take to the course at Murray Downs. The group is for golfers over the age of 60, who can take the game as seriously or as casually as they...

24 Dec 2020

Sport

Funding to help Olympic dream

THE Mid Murray Pistol Club has received a $4000 community grant from Swan Hill’s Bendigo Bank branch. Pistol club president John Daniels said the money would be used to upgrade the club’s kitchen facilities.“We...

24 Dec 2020