Corowa Free Press

Roos down Dogs

Seniors Corowa Rutherglen 9.7.61 defeated Wodonga Bulldogs 5.8.38 There was spring in the air and spring in the Roos step as they sealed an impressive victory against the determined Wodonga Bulldogs. It was an important win for the team, not just to...

Corowa Free Press

Councillor pay increase push

Federation Council wants councillors in geographical councils which may not have a 20,000 population to be “adequately compensated” by the State Government. Council wants the NSW State Government to determine new categories to reflect Local...

Robert Muir

27 minutes ago

Corowa Rutherglen Netball

A Grade Roos 78 def Wodonga 26 The girls found their groove again this week. Timing was great and the defensive and attacking teams were back on song, supporting each other and playing the ball with love. The A/B squad will take forward their...

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Corowa Rutherglen Netball

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Corowa Market Report

Agents penned higher numbers of sheep and lambs and the quality lifted across most categories at the Corowa Market on Monday. There were some excellent supplementary fed lambs particularly in the Merino run. Better numbers of new season lambs were...

Corowa Free Press

CDHBU Football and Netball

Seniors CDHBU 9.10-64 def by Henty 12.16-88 With Alex Lavis promoted to Seniors for his debut the Power came out firing, kicking 4-1 to 3-4 in the first quarter. Henty kicked 4-6 to the Power’s 2-0 in the second to lead by 15 points at half time...

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Drugs stolen in Echuca Amcal robbery

POLICE are investigating after Echuca’s Amcal Pharmacy was held up this morning. The Hare St robbery occurred about 8.55am where a man threatened staff members before stealing a large amount of pharmaceutical drugs. No-one was injured. The man was...

Ivy Jensen

20 Aug 2019

Campaspe News

Woman breaks neck in Rochester car crash

A ROCHESTER woman in her 40s has been flown from Echuca to Melbourne by air ambulance after suffering a broken neck in a Rochester car crash Saturday afternoon. The woman, in her 40s, was driving her Ford Focus with her daughter as a passenger when...

James Arbuthnott

18 Aug 2019

Police pursuit Benalla - Updated

A reported high-speed police pursuit has come to a dramatic end in Bridge St West. Police at the incident are investigating a small black hatchback. The driver, and/or passengers are no longer on the scene, presumably detained by police. The Ensign...

Simon Ruppert

19 Aug 2019

Man dead after mobility scooter crash

A Seymour man has died after crashing his mobility scooter earlier this month Emergency services were called to Station St on August 5 about 11.15am. The 89-year-old man was driving north west on the footpath when he collided with a public bench...

David Rak

15 Aug 2019

Education

Capital divide grows between local public and private secondary schools

Capital expenditure discrepancies across the region’s secondary colleges have been highlighted recently in data collated by ABC News.

Ashlea Witoslawski

15 Aug 2019

Murray Valley farmers take charge of energy

Local farmers will next week have the opportunity to gain new perspectives on energy generation and management at free Farm Energy Forums developed by NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), with support from Dairy Australia and NSW Farmers. DPI...

Corowa Free Press

Scammers rattle local nerves

Rhys Williams

Top ‘froggers’ wanted for local frog count

Corowa and Albury residents are being asked to eavesdrop on the critically endangered Sloane’s Froglet breeding calls during August. Dr David Hunter senior threatened species officer said the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, in...

Corowa Free Press

15 Aug 2019

EVENTS

Moira Film Group screening of Christoper Robin - Yarroweyah

Are you a movie buff? Gather your friends for a wonderful afternoon movie with the friendly community of Yarroweyah. Yarroweyah Memorial Hall committee host a movie on the third Wednesday of the month at the Yarroweyah Memorial Hall from 1:30pm to...

Cobram Courier

21 Aug

Social Art Sessions with Cobram and District Artist Society Group - Barooga

Cobram and District Artist’s Society meet every Thursday 10am to 3pm at Barooga Community Hall. Everyone welcome to share friendship and a common interest of art - if you like to draw, sketch, paint - acrylic, oil, water colour, charcoal, pen...

Cobram Courier

22 Aug

Kenny Broberg - Piano Recital

Kenny Broberg, finalist at the most recent Sydney International Piano Competition, returns to Australia as part of a major recital tour. This is a wonderful opportunity to witness this outstanding musician as his reputation continues to grow. In...

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Alana Christensen

23 Aug

Cafe Culture series

Sharp musicianship and silken four part harmonies fuel this acoustic driven band who presents a flashback to 70s radio sound with impressively penned originals inspired by the big names of the era, America, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, The Band...

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Cobram Courier

30 Aug

Regional

Top finish for GVGS students

Three Goulburn Valley Grammar School geography students are among the best in Australia.

James Bennett

Kyabram Free Press

Victorian Welsh choir to visit Ky

HAVE you ever seen a choir so good you immediately joined?

Holly Tregenza

20 hours ago

Dramatic end to Police Pursuit

A high-speed police chase ended in dramatic fashion in Benalla when police forced a car from the road in Bridge St West.

Simon Ruppert

Robber steals drugs in Echuca pharmacy hold-up

POLICE are hunting for a man who robbed Echuca’s Amcal Pharmacy this morning.

Ivy Jensen

Finley High School send representative to ‘Secretary for a day’

Finley High School student Megan Marsden has spent the last two days having an input into education system development as part of a Department of Education program.

Southern Riverina News

09 Aug 2019

Canyon to mark 50 years since Woodstock at Yarroweyah Hall

August 1969, Woodstock Music Festival presents the newly-formed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young debut concert. Fifty years later, a four-piece, Melbourne-based band Canyon marks Woodstock’s 50th anniversary with a sold out concert at Melbourne’s Caravan Club. In keeping with the Woodstock vibe, the band will continue to share the love touring 18 regional Victorian towns as part of the Cafe Culture Series during August and September. Canyon’s line-up includes singer, songwriter and guitarist Peter Chapman, singer, co-song writer and percussionist Louise Dempsey, Bruce Packard on vocals, bass and mandolin and Josh Bennett on vocals and multiple guitars.

Cobram Courier

20 hours ago

Jonathan Dick arrested in Melbourne

Seymour’s Jonathan Dick has been arrested in a bloody scuffle after spending more than two years on the run, following the murder of his brother at a Melbourne shopping centre.

David Rak

Landmark effort in fight against kids’ cancer

Lankmark Elmore has raised $5000 for the Shearing for Kids with Cancer fundraiser after Bayer group committed to donating one dollar to the cause for every lite of herbicide sold. Starting in 2015 when two families joined forces to help kids through...

James Arbuthnott

Preps are just getting started

TWO weeks ago Foundation students at Heathcote Primary School celebrated their first 100 days of school. Last week it was Holy Rosary’s turn. Teacher Stephanie Slayter said she was enormously proud of her students and that it was “incredible” to...

Vanessa Wiltshire

12 Aug 2019

Blessing of the Bikes to continue in Tatura

The All Saints Anglican Church in Tatura put the wheels in motion for a new tradition at the weekend with the town’s first Blessing of the Bikes service.

Madeleine Caccianiga

29 Jul 2019

Combating the rise in family violence

Family violence is alarmingly on the rise in the Moira region almost doubling in the past five years. Statistics from the Crime Statistics Agency show in Moira in 2013-2014, 285 cases were recorded compared to 496 in 2017-2018. In family incidents...

Emma Prior

Judy’s league honour

The emotion of receiving a Picola & District Football Netball League life membership was evident when Judy Plattfuss was brought to tears on Saturday.

Zoe McMaugh

14 Aug 2019

Deniliquin Rovers end finals drought

A hoodoo of epic proportions was broken yesterday when the Deniliquin Rovers’ seniors won their first final in 11 years, nullifying Picola United to take a 37-point elimination final win.

Alex Mitchell

19 Aug 2019

Rural

‘Really good’ crop dependent on September rains.

September may be an important month when it comes to football codes, but it is set to play a huge role in the outcome of hay, silage and grain crops this season.

Rodney Woods

Water

Irrigation allocations increase

Allocations in the Goulburn-Murray Water irrigation system have taken a substantial move upwards.

Geoff Adams

16 Aug 2019

Animal Health

Preventing lameness in your herd

LAMENESS IN cattle can occur at any time of the year but extremely wet conditions are associated with higher rates of lameness in dairy cows. This is because prolonged exposure to moisture causes the hoof to soften and increases the risk of...

Gemma Chuck

Dairy

Lachlan Marshall starts the process of destocking

Lachlan Marshall’s Blighty dairy farm has hit the trigger point he was hoping it would never make.

Sophie Baldwin

14 Aug 2019

Livestock

Ram sells for $35,000 in Hamilton

A ram by the name of Moorundie 219 sold for a top price of $35,000 at Sheepvention in Hamilton last week, eclipsing the previous record of $31,000.

Sophie Baldwin

12 Aug 2019

Markets

Australian milk production continues to slide, while global markets present opportunities

THE 2018–19 season will most certainly be remembered as an exceptionally challenging season for the Australian dairy industry. Universally high feed costs, record high temporary irrigation water costs and widespread dry seasonal conditions have...

Sofia Omstedt

Viticulture

With love from Italy: Mario and Madeleine Marson pour soul into every drop

Had the cards fallen differently, Mario Marson could have an Argentinian passport.

Vanessa Wiltshire

Horticulture

$10m to help combat pest

A further $10million has been invested into sterile fruit fly research as part of a three-year Hort Innovation-managed project.

Country News

24 Jul 2019

Dairy

‘Bold new measures necessary’

More than 130 delegates representing all Australian states and elements of the supply chain in the dairy industry met in Melbourne on July 30 and 31 to frame the key elements of the Australian Dairy Plan.

Country News

09 Aug 2019

Viticulture

The quiet rise of Heathcote’s new reds and whites

Viticulturalist Hugh Jones is a fan of reds — in more ways than one.

Vanessa Wiltshire

Machinery & Products

Air drills integrate seeding technology

BUILDING ON the best features of the 1990CCS Air Seeder that has been the standard for small grains seeding for the last decade, John Deere has introduced the redesigned N500C Series Air Drills for 2019. These new air drills integrate the latest in...

Dairy News

Management

Looking for a reason to smile

HAPPY COWS mean happy farmers and young Western District farmer Rachael McGrath is doing her best to keep smiling. At 25, Rachael is taking over management of her family farm which has endured years of adversity and setbacks. With a good 2019...

Rick Bayne

Water

McKenzie and Drum talk about water

Country News caught up with Federal Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie and Federal Member for Nicholls Damian Drum last week at the University of Melbourne’s Dookie Campus. Reporter Rodney Woods put the topic of water on the agenda.

Rodney Woods

14 Aug 2019

Cropping

Survey into skills project

NSW grain and cotton growers are being encouraged to have their say in a statewide survey to gather critical information about the impact of the AgSkilled initiative in meeting the training needs of their respective industries.

Country News

08 Aug 2019

From the Experts

California faces similar dairy issues

MULTIPLE DEMANDS on irrigation water, stricter environmental controls and pressures from animal activists are some of the issues that are similar for Californian dairy farmers and those in Australia. Animal scientist Dr Russ Hovey drew some...

Dairy News

14 Jun 2019

Agent Tony Pianto’s funeral

The death of life-long livestock agent Tony Pianto was marked at the Shepparton Regional Saleyards on Tuesday.

Geoff Adams

18 hours ago

National & world

National

Vietnam ties never been stronger: Morrison

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has heaped praise on Australia’s ties with Vietnam ahead of an official state visit, the first of its kind in 25 years.

AAP Newswire

6 minutes ago

Finance

Hello World profit up 24% as bookings rise

Travel agency Hello World has increased its dividend after its profit rose 23.8% to $38.2 million in the 12 months to June 30.

AAP Newswire

17 minutes ago

World

Trump not losing sleep over Aust report

Donald Trump says China or any other nation does not come close to challenging the US military.

AAP Newswire

World

Migrants disembark rescue ship in Italy

A stand-off between a Spanish charity and the Italian government has ended with African migrants allowed off a rescue ship at the island of Lampedusa.

AAP Newswire