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Theatre group wants to make new star

TALENT scouts are looking for the Loddon’s latest undiscovered stage star. BBAC Productions, the Boort, Buckrabanyule and Community amateur company billing itself as a group of crazy amateur actors, wants a man for a small but key role in its 2025...

By Loddon Herald

Summer reading: Rats from the Hill

FOR 240 days, Australians were holed in the desert sands of north-west Libya refusing to surrender to the might of Rommel’s Afrika Corp. It was the darkest of days in World War Two as British and Allied forces from Commonwealth countries were on...

By Loddon Herald

BOOK REVIEW: Jacka joins a new elite

By CHRIS EARL THE bravery of Loddon’s greatest war heroes Albert Jacka and Albert Borella has been the stuff of stories and legends for more than a century. Both were awarded the highest medal for bravery - the Victoria Cross, both from...

By Loddon Herald

Serenity & tranquility - Michael’s ideal studio

MICHAEL Ghalayini often finds what he needs by chance. Working as a volunteer counsellor for a grief helpline, Michael wasn’t expecting to find a love of painting through his job, but an art therapy workshop sparked the creativity inside him. Now...

By Loddon Herald

Spinning the yarns: comic writer’s Aussie visit

SPIDERMAN, the superhero alter ego of Peter Parker, has been fighting crime since 1962. His superhuman strength and agility weaving webs across New York has outfox dastardly crooks in hundreds of comics penned and illustrated by artists with...

By Loddon Herald

Summer reading: When the circus came to town

LONG before internet stream and social media fads like Tik-Tok, entertainment was live and real in Loddon communities. The treats came from visiting entertainers - roving minstrel musicians and music hall revues, even magicians like the modern-day...

By Loddon Herald

Power, speed and the novelty of radio in 1924

By ALAN MULRANEY RESEARCH has uncovered similarities and parallels between today and a century ago. Over the past couple of years Darryl Arnott and I have been working on the Wedderburn Express newspapers, reading every article in each edition from...

By Loddon Herald

Summer reading: For the love of words

By CHRIS EARL PASSION for the English language of Boort District School literacy specialist Sharon Pickering triggered the arrival last week of authors, songwriters and journalists to inspire students. Sharon’s plans for the school’s first...

By Loddon Herald

Destination sketches - Len’s brush with Vegemite

By CHRIS EARL BEHIND the narrow shopfront on Wedderburn’s High Street, two dreamers and hard workers are planning and painting a path to the ultimate in Aussie destination dining. What started as a wall mural by one-time Melbourne street walk...

By Loddon Herald

Jennifer’s accept the challenge and claims top award

FESTIVE decor was crammed into Wedderburn Mechanics’ Institute Hall for the patchwork group’s annual community Christmas and arts festival. Hundreds of quilts, decorated Christmas trees, artwork and photographs were on display last Friday and...

By Loddon Herald

FitzSimons comes to the town of Jacka to promote book

THE legend of Albert Jacka was revered from the moment he became Australia’s first Victorian Cross recipient in World War One. The bravery of the young man from Wedderburn would be honoured at his death in 1932 and for another 62 years by the...

By Loddon Herald

Hall stories all true: tin shed’s 70th anniversary

COUNTRY halls are not bricks and mortar, they are the people who gather within the walls. That epiphany is what set comedian, actor and writer Damien Callinan on his never-ending journey of discovery of community hubs scattered across rural...

By Loddon Herald

Thousands get that Alive! feeling at festival

BROOKE Street was buzzing and jumping on Sunday when an estimated 4000 people soaked up the fun of Inglewood Alive! The town’s annual one-day festival brought together local businesses and organisations to promote the community. Businesses were...

By Loddon Herald

Elias picks up BLG top gong

LODDON singing sensation Elias Lanyon has picked up another golden gong. Elias collected BLG Loddon Shire youth of the year award on Friday night applauding his work advocating for mental health and rural communities. North Central LLEN chair Dan...

By Loddon Herald

Large crowd attends anniversary book launch

MORE than 150 years of Wycheproof and surrounds’ history has been encapsulated by Alan ‘Prof’ Milburn. Alan’s book, ‘Wycheproof and District the Way it Was’ was launched on the 150th anniversary of the founding of Wycheproof and...

By Loddon Herald

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