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Local news and sport for Loddon Shire communities.

Pre-tax profit jumps 75%

COBRAM Estate Olive’s pre-tax profit has jumped 75 per cent in the half-year to December compared with the previous year. Investors were told on Friday the profit in the six-month trading period was $14.5 million with sales of Australian packaged...

8 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

Sport

Bulldogs sign star tall timber

Sport

HIS YOUNGER brother might be earning $US6 million a year in the NBA, but Kai Daniels’ sporting aspirations for 2025 are a little more modest. Bendigo-born Daniels, 24, has signed with Pyramid Hill in the Loddon Valley league in a major coup for...

8 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

Sport

Borrowing bats, balls with town libraries

Sport

PYRAMID Hill and Tarnagulla are to get free sports equipment libraries to encourage communities – especially children – to be more active, more often. Healthy Loddon Campaspe, a Victorian State Government-funded initiative aimed at improving...

8 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

Sport

Plucky Zayde targets championship success

Sport

By GARY WALSH ON HIS first day at Little Athletics Bendigo in 2023, aged 10, Zayde Williams threw a javelin more than 21 metres. “I picked it up and wanted to see how far I could throw it,” Zayde said. “I just threw it like a tennis ball.”...

8 hours ago

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Flavour team plan twilight riparian repast

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FLAVOURS of Loddon will bring award-winning local produce to Bridgewater for the first time on the March long weekend. Fresh from success in Boort last month, the ingredients of artisan food and beverage makers will be showcased on the banks of the...

04 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

Agriculture

Hosking ups ante in fight to end fire ‘levy inequity’

Agriculture

THE STATE Government was insulting farmers and burdening them with potential a 400 per cent tax hike with its new emergency services levy. Victorian Farmers’ Federation president Brett Hosking said the Government needed to find a better solution...

04 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

Agriculture

New supply link emerges

Agriculture

MORE grain could be leaving Boort by train next year with a rail siding upgrade expected to be finished within weeks. Boort Grain Co-op has been in talks with V/Line for two years on track improvements and access to the line. The co-op of district...

04 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Magnifying turning point in learning

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Initiative goes beyond traditional delivery of curriculum, writes Stephen O’Shannessy IN 2025, Catholic Education Sandhurst embarked on the largest multi-organisational school initiate in Australia. The introduction of Magnify across schools in...

04 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Day bridge came crashing down

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TWO support posts are all that remain of the bridge that once straddled the Wehla Creek. Farmer Barry Finch last week recalled the day when the crossing crumbled. He recounted the day to the Loddon Herald during what Barry described as “some...

03 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald