Reception

THE Grand Ponderosa Training Day on Eildon Pondage was held by the Lake Eildon Rowing Club for the first time in its short history on last Saturday, August 31. Thirty-four scullers from rowing clubs in Melbourne made the trip with many staying overnight on Friday and some on Saturday night also. The course was a […]

JOHN Sinclair first came to Molesworth in 1968. He explained, “My father started me on 500 acres. Dad wasn’t a farmer, he was a doctor. I batted away here for a while and then I finished up going to Roseworthy College and did an agriculture course there for three years. I came home in 1961 […]

THIS Sunday, September 8, will see the fourth annual Suicide Awareness Walk commence at the Yea Railway Park. People attend from far and wide, including many from beyond the shire, and are registering to walk at 8.30am or have already registered online. Founder of the walk, Jacky Gilbee said the walk “is a great opportunity […]

LAST Sunday the Goulburn Murray Junior League held its presentation function in Shepparton for all grades of junior football and netball across the Seymour and Shepparton junior competitions. A number of Alexandra players were invited to attend the event, and the club achieved the following outcomes: Under 11 Netball Zoe Coller:  Runners Up Best and […]

A STRONG paced weekend saw a podium finish in the final on the second step at Rya Roberts’s first attempt at the red plate titles in Numurkah on the weekend. With what started off with an average qualifying of fourth, he managed to not steer away from that lucky number four all weekend. It was […]

WENDY Lee Jacobs was born in Randwick NSW on August 20, 1924, the only child of musical director Henry Osborne Jacobs and dancer Violet Lucie Maud Bishop. Given her parents’ occupations, her life was spent in and around theatres and theatrical people, and due to their evening work hours and travel, her grandmother M’liss Martha […]

IT was an anxious wait to see if the weather was going to hold off for the 15 and Under Netball Grand Final at King’s Park Seymour. The Tigers had won through and after a week of rest were looking forward to hitting the court again. The Seymour Lions had been building all season and […]

LAST Sunday the Alexandra Football Netball Club teams played in the grand final round in the Goulburn Murray Junior League, with finals played at Kings Park in Seymour. Football Under 12 Alexandra 2.0 – 12 defeated by Wandong 4.9 – 33 The club says well done to coach Ben Broadway, support staff, players, parents and […]

THE Buxton Progress Association (BPA) are conducting a survey to help assess local support for moving the 60km/h signs on Maroondah Highway, at the northern end of the township, further north. The township has grown to the north and there are now driveways and two other intersections outside the current 60km/h zone. Concerns have been raised […]

NOELLA Bannon is the new Senior Sergeant (officer in charge) for Murrindindi, and will also be undertaking the Municipal Emergency Response Coordinator (MERC) role. Noella grew up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and has had property in Murrindindi Shire for about 15 years. She’s been a member for Victoria Police for almost 33 years, […]