THREE reunions for Loddon communities will be held in early 2025.
Former students of the closed Newbridge Primary School are being invited to a luncheon at the town’s hotel on March 1.
The school opened in 1861 when Newbridge had a population of 5000 and boasted up to seven hotels, a flour mill, a cheese factory, two breweries, five churches. Newbridge school was closed in 1993.
The same weekend, the annual Pyramid Hill reunion will be held in Bendigo with a Saturday night dinner and social afternoon the next day.
Wedderburn’s annual reunion will be held the previous week, moved from Melbourne to Bendigo this year for the 100th anniversary of the event first being held.
“We have purposely moved it to Bendigo from this year on, as the numbers were dwindling and we needed to refresh it. There are many ex-Wedderburn residents now living in Bendigo and with the ‘Burn only half an hour away,” said an organiser Doug Steel.