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Umpire shortage strikes at reserves, junior games

LODDON Valley football clubs have been told that they may have to supply their own umpires for reserves and under-18 matches this season. A critical lack of umpires has forced the league’s hand. While the Bendigo Umpires Association supplies...

19 hours ago

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One club will get first points in this weekend’s round

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TOMORROW’S Anzac Day football clash between Charlton and St Arnaud will see one of the North Central strugglers collect its first four points for the season. Charlton has lost its first two games by 171 and 188 points, which remarkably enough sees...

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Night-time action signals return from early break

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THE LODDON Valley league will hold its first ever Anzac Day football and netball matches tomorrow. Maiden Gully will host Newbridge in a night fixture at its Marist College home, with the other three fixtures taking place on Saturday afternoon. The...

19 hours ago

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Redbacks’ star sidelined

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STAR Wedderburn forward Mitch Jensen will be sidelined indefinitely with a fractured tibia. Jensen, who joined the Redbacks this season, was injured against St Arnaud in round two before the Easter break, leaving the field late in the game after...

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Anzac commemorations in our communities

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Boort: 10am Memorial Hall, Godfrey Street Bridgewater: 6am Memorial Hall, Eldon Sttreet Calivil: 10am Calivil Hall and Recreation Reserve Eddington: 5pm Eddington Hall Inglewood: 10.50am march to Inglewood Centopath, Grant and Verdon Streets, for...

24 Apr 2025

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Letters to the editor: Levee bank, energy

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Levee bank question Sir, Thank you for the very enlightening article about the Boort levee bank project (Loddon Herald, April 10). It is inexcusable that Indigenous approval delayed the project by three years as protection from flooding the township...

22 Apr 2025

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Triple-0 anguish: They sent a taxi

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TYSON Woodman has been left writhing in agony for almost three hours on Sunday morning as his family frantically tried to have the Triple-0 call centre despatch an ambulance. Grandmother Verneece said a scoliosis attack had left Tyson unable to move...

22 Apr 2025

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Old servo building coming down

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DEMOLITION of the former Inglewood Co-op service station is expected to start next week. Removal of the building will be the first step in the long-awaited town streetscape project. Loddon Shire’s acting operations director David Stretch said work...

21 Apr 2025

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Flushing little lake boosts irrigators’ water access

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THE flushing pump has been turned on to send water from Little Lake Boort into the the Number 3 Channel. Little Lake Boort committee member Paul Haw said the extra channel water could be used by irrigators. “In a small way this helps the farmers...

21 Apr 2025

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Alan recalls days living in historic mansion

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NONEGENARIAN Alan Addlem has memories of boarding as a student at Inglewood’s historic Nimmatabel rekindled. Alan stayed with his uncle and aunt. the stately home’s owners Jim and Maude Secombe, for five years while he finished study at...

21 Apr 2025

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Umpire shortage strikes at reserves, junior games

One club will get first points in this weekend’s round

Night-time action signals return from early break

Redbacks’ star sidelined

Honouring the fallen

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THE poignancy of the Last Post will reverberate around Inglewood Recreation Reserve on Saturday before fierce football combatants honour the Anzac spirit in Loddon Valley league’s match of the round. Inglewood will wear a specially-designed jumper...

25 Apr 2025

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