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Getting back on track - the trots are back

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HARNESS racing will return to Wedderburn for the first time in three years on Australia Day. The meeting, which features cup races for both pacers and trotters on a nine-race card, will be the only one hosted at Donaldson Park in 2025...

9 hours ago

Summer sports reading: Keeper of the memories

By ANDREW MOLE NEED a fact checked at Bears Lagoon Serpentine Football Netball Club? Want to know who kicked that match-winning goal, or who was 19th man in the 1992 grand final, or who scored the most goals in any given season of those golden years...

20 hours ago

Father felled and forgotten without family

By KEN ARNOLD THOMAS Whyte’s dreams were many when leaving family behind for a golden adventure in colonial Australia. Leaving all he knew and loved in Scotland, Thomas Whyte boarded a ship bound for Port Phillip intent on making a living in...

20 hours ago

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Loddon Herald January 9 2025

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Community wraps family in love

09 Jan 2025

Funeral details released for Boort van fire toddler

THE name of the toddler who tragically died in a caravan fire at Boort a week ago has been released tonight.. He was Carter Geoffrey Keeble, 3, who had been staying with family in Boort over the New Year period. Details, including the funeral and...

Grandma’s genes: The ewe behind a modern stud dynasty

By CHRIS EARL GRANDMA is passing on good genetics for Norm Weir at his Dunluce stud. Two generations on from grandma winning Grand Champion strong wool ewe at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, Norm’s knack of consistently breeding quality ewes...

Summer reading: A tangled web at Murderer’s Hill

By KEN ARNOLD ON A gentle rise in the road between Tarnagulla and Dunolly sits a sign noting the place as Murderers Hill. The story of how it came to have that name is as fascinating as it is tangled. Robert Campbell Dunlop, born in June 1823 in...

Auxiliary’s 90 years of service and support

WOMEN united in supporting Boort have in September marked the 90th anniversary of the town’s auxiliary. Tuesday afternoon brought together present and former members of the Boort District Health Service auxiliary. They were praised for the care...