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Cockerell wins NCFL reserves best and fairest

BOORT has been given a fillip heading into North Central football finals with reserves forward Alex Cockerell taking out the league’s best-and-fairest award. In a late swoop, Cockerell shared the Goldsmith Trophy win on 15 votes with Sea Lake...

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Sport

Grand standard bearers - Redbacks rule

Sport

THE Redbacks ruthlessly ripped apart the struggling Saints ... simply no other way to sum up the final game of 2025 for the North Central Football League’s unluckiest side of a lop-sided season. Wedderburn had easily accounted for the league’s...

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Sport

Woodies ruin Mellington’s push for party

Sport

WITH Bears Lagoon Serpentine closing to within 13 points halfway through the last quarter of Saturday’s elimination final, Inglewood decided enough was enough. The Woodies forced ball up after ball up, contest after contest, spending the best part...

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Bridgey bonds of brotherhood

Sport

By GARY WALSH THE MESSAGES from the rival coaches at three-quarter time of Bridgewater and Pyramid Hill’s qualifying final on Saturday could not have been more different. Bulldogs boss Nathan Fitzpatrick, having seen his team fight back from...

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Agriculture

Breeding for flock profitability: Kedleston Park ram sale Friday

Agriculture

RAMS from award-winning Calivil Merino stud Kedleston Park are boosting profitability for farmers across central Victoria and into New South Wales. John and Rosemary Humbert’s dual-purpose offering is recognised by graziers for genetics that...

21 Aug 2025

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Reader’s on the legal driving age

News

THE PUSH TO LOWER VICTORIA’S DRIVING AGE HAS SPARKED COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS. Bindi Long wrote: Why are other states 17, yet Victoria is 18. Aren’t we a country? Each state should have the same laws/Rules in my opinion. Less confusion when...

20 Aug 2025

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Missing link to tracking future

News

Rail revival has place in corridor growth, writes Chris Earl LOOK at government policies and there’s usually the mention in growth, development and service provision frameworks for good and accessible transport options. Looks good on paper but...

20 Aug 2025

By Loddon Herald

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More than pulling weeds

News

WHEN many people hear the word Landcare, their first thoughts often go to tree-planting days and pulling weeds. Familiar activities that symbolize community effort and environmental stewardship. For some, that may be where their understanding ends...

20 Aug 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Merino ram season off to good start

News

A LAST-MINUTE inclusion in Terrick West’s on-property Merino catalogue has topped the state’s opening ram auction of the year. Stud advisor Chris Bowman bought the opening lot for Craig and Tessa Johnston, Austral-Eden Merino stud (West Wyalong)...

20 Aug 2025

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Politics & Council

Seeing red: shire rate notice says blame government

Politics & Council

RATES notices with thick red boxes have started appearing in Loddon letterbox as the shire council rams home its message that it has been forced to collect the State Government’s controversial new emergency services tax. The tax is tipped to add...

19 Aug 2025

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Cockerell wins NCFL reserves best and fairest

Grand standard bearers - Redbacks rule

Woodies ruin Mellington’s push for party

Bridgey bonds of brotherhood

Wendy back on field

Sport

WEDDERBURN hockey stalwart Wendy Smith filled in at Saturdays game to support the team to clinch a spot in the 2025 North Central finals Back in the early years Wendy clinched 12 goals in one game as was name in the paper as Wendy the Weapon Wielder...

16 Aug 2025

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