General News
1 April, 2025
Let the season begin - Ultimate Quest '25
LET THE SEASON BEGIN Winter sport kicks off for 2025 in the North Central and Loddon Valley this weekend. And your local Loddon Herald has the inside information on the clubs and the players as they take to local fields and courts in quests of...
LET THE SEASON BEGIN
Winter sport kicks off for 2025 in the North Central and Loddon Valley this weekend.
And your local Loddon Herald has the inside information on the clubs and the players as they take to local fields and courts in quests of ultimate glory this season.
This week’s Loddon Herald has a 36-page supplement to guide you through the season.
As we know, sport intrinsically strengthens country communities and none more so than across the North Central and Valley where clubs are the standard bearers for the hopes of our towns and districts. Football, netball and hockey will be the fore over the next five months as colours that have generated pride in communities for generations are donned once more.
Fierce rivalries on the fields and courts, ringed by supporters travelling barrack for sons, daughters, neighbours and friends. Good sports during the game and greater friends after the final siren has sounded when players and supporters gather to discuss much more than sport - there’s the trends in farming, achievements in schools and community.
Ultimate Quest ’25 is a collaboration of three local newspapers committed to their communities, The Loddon Herald, Buloke Times and North Central News. All part of the region’s committed team reporting on local sport every week where the news of local communities and local people are to the fore.
Winter sports are the lifeblood connecting our people, pumping a heartbeat that benefits the wellbeing of rural Victoria. As it has been since those first games of football played on the goldfields and any available paddock more than 150 years ago, your local newspapers report the fates and fortunes every week of local clubs and players.
The Loddon Herald, Buloke Times and North Central News are local businesses invested in our towns every week sharing with readers that snapshot of sport, helping you celebrate or look to a better result next week.
North Central and Loddon Valley leagues and associations and the clubs have supported our collaborative Ultimate Quest supplement. Like the clubs, we too need support to ensure the news is published very week. We are three small but proud local newspapers and we hope the spirit of co-operation between our three businesses reflects those same bonds that tie the sporting communities across our regions. Come September, there will be premiers in each of the codes and across the playing grades. But, every week your local newspapers will be there for every community. We’re part of that very special social fabric that can only be found in our part of the world.
Pick up your copy of Ultimate Quest ’24 with your local Loddon Herald out Thursday.