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Options get the Sharp focus

BRIDGEWATER made it to the Loddon Valley preliminary final last season but limped out of the premiership race with a big loss to Marong. The team’s talisman, full-forward and co-coach Lachlan Sharp, limped his way through the latter part of the...

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Van Den Heuvel, Dupuy part of plan

Sport

BRIDGEWATER made it through to the preliminary final last season, losing to ultimate premiers Mitiamo after winning their first two finals against Bears Lagoon Serpentine and Newbridge. It was a strong result for the Mean Machine, which had finished...

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Midfielders grow Redbacks’ desire

Sport

WEDDERBURN finished third in coach Tom Metherell’s impressive debut season at the helm, but some key departures will test the Redbacks’ resilience in 2025. Star ruckman Jordan Hargreaves has departed for the Heathcote league, leaving a huge hole...

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Sport

New faces join dynasty club

Sport

WEDDERBURN is the juggernaut of the North Central netball scene. Last season the Redbacks won their 30th A Grade premiership in 70 years, an unparalleled record of success in the region. Premiership coach Emma Lockhart, who also played centre in the...

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RED HOT ANGER

Politics & Council

Collect your own tax, councillors tell Govt YOUR tax, you collect it! Angry Loddon councillors have blasted the State Government’s new emergency services levy. Weeks from the tax’s introduction, councillors on Tuesday said the Government was...

02 Apr 2025

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The catch with rise of snatching cheeky social Neds

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Businesses from far and wide becoming gamer than Kelly, writes Chris Earl IT WAS a little selfish to mention but desperate times and all that ... I thought it was worth a cheeky mention. So wrote a reader at the weekend after trying for an...

02 Apr 2025

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Underground plan has credibility

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Pause VNI West and have an open investigation, writes Bruce Mountain SYNCLINE Energy has publicised their proposal to build underground cables in place of the overhead Western Renewables Link and in place of about half of the Victorian side of the...

02 Apr 2025

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Students explore courses

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SENIOR students from the North Central region attended the Charles Sturt University Explore Day to learn more about agriculture and animal studies courses. Among the group were students from East Loddon College, Angus Addlem, Lyss Mulder and Blake...

02 Apr 2025

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Agriculture

February fleece tops market

Agriculture

GREG and Jo Bear have seen good prices paid for their February wool clip that went under the hammer last week. The Loddon Vale farmers were among the standouts at the Elders offering - their 157 bales with an average 20 microns picking up the...

01 Apr 2025

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Agriculture

Satisfied with risk reports, says council

Agriculture

GREATER Bendigo City Council is standing by its decision to allow a waste plant to operate within metres of the livestock exchange. “Biosecurity risks were considered at every stage of the approvals processes and will be appropriately managed by...

01 Apr 2025

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Options get the Sharp focus

Van Den Heuvel, Dupuy part of plan

Midfielders grow Redbacks’ desire

New faces join dynasty club

Exciting additions

Sport

WITH some canny recruiting and having retained most of last season’s key players, Boort is seen by many as a big improver this season. Coach Dale Cameron is of the view that the Magpies should have made the finals last year and is confident his...

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Loddon Herald 3 April 2025

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FOUR off to Kokoda, swimming pool passes popular after bank sponsorship and special 36-page Ultimate Quest supplement

03 Apr 2025

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Ultimate Quest 2025 - North Central and Loddon Valley sport

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Ultimate Quest 2025 - North Central and Loddon Valley sport special supplement

02 Apr 2025

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Loddon Herald 27March 2025

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YOUR LOCAL LODDON HERALD OUT TODAY Councillors give blunt message to Government over new emergency services tax, asbestos audit of Brooke Street fire building, five years on from the first COVID lockdowns, more candidates in Mallee, Professor Bruce Mountain writes on the underground powerline proposal. In sport North Central league has its season launch, six junior teams confirmed in Loddon Valley and more

27 Mar 2025

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Loddon Way Autumn 2025

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Your quarterly passport to discover in the Loddon Shire

20 Mar 2025

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