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Local four day forecast
Today Friday Saturday Sunday
It is forcast to be Mostly Cloudy at 10:00 PM EST on May 17, 2012
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Portland

Local four day forecast
Today Friday Saturday Sunday
It is forcast to be Mostly Cloudy at 10:00 PM EST on May 17, 2012
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It is forcast to be Chance of Rain at 10:00 PM EST on May 19, 2012
Chance of Rain
14°C/8°C
It is forcast to be Partly Cloudy at 10:00 PM EST on May 20, 2012
Partly Cloudy
15°C/9°C

Casterton

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Today Friday Saturday Sunday
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Chance of Rain
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It is forcast to be Partly Cloudy at 10:00 PM EST on May 19, 2012
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16°C/3°C
It is forcast to be Mostly Cloudy at 10:00 PM EST on May 20, 2012
Mostly Cloudy
14°C/5°C

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Dunkeld on the weather radar

15 May 2012 @ 11:44 AM

Kristy McDonald  |  DUNKELD was on Channel Nine’s weather radar on Sunday, as the network’s Today show broadcast live from the town’s arboretum at the foot of the Grampians. Grampians Tourism paired with the broadcaster to promote the region as a tourism destination, with the support of State Government flood recovery funding. Today show weather presenter, Emma Freedman, kept locals entertained for several hours, even taking up the opportunity to have a kick of the footy with victorious Dunkeld Rams under-12 side.  0 Comments

  • Grampians crash

    15 May 2012 @ 11:13 AM

    Kristy McDonald  |  A 40-YEAR-OLD Macarthur man escaped serious injury after his car hit a wallaby before rolling into an embankment on Grampians Rd on Sunday night. Dunkeld Police station commander, Leading Senior Constable Dave Walkley said the accident happened at Mirrinatwa Gap [...]  0 Comments

  • Call for race train to Hamilton

    15 May 2012 @ 11:01 AM

    Sam Fleming  |  LET’S get passenger trains back to Hamilton for the races! That was the message coming from Merino resident, Ian Whalley, who said that this year would be the perfect time to use the railway line to bring people from Melbourne [...]  0 Comments

  • A bloody good shire

    15 May 2012 @ 11:00 AM

    Danielle Grindlay  |  IT’S confirmed: Southern Grampians Shire is the heart of Victoria, where the most people gave blood in an Australian Red Cross Blood Service challenge. A campaign that pitted town against town saw local residents give 257 donations between March 19 [...]  0 Comments

Gray St go-ahead, despite objections 0

15 May 2012 @ 10:11 AM | General    Hamilton Spectator    Publications   

Emma-Jayne Schenk  |  GRAY St will be hit with an “urban menagerie”, according to objectors to a proposal to build six single-story dwellings on an empty block. They claim the project will devalue the area and create a plethora of problems for nearby [...]

Reward for emu killers 0

15 May 2012 @ 10:10 AM | General    Hamilton Spectator    Publications   

Wayne Drew  |  A HAMILTON couple is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the person who shot dead an emu last week in the Hamilton Botanic Gardens. David and Vera Lynch said that like police, they were appalled [...]

24-hour petrol hub mystery 0

10 May 2012 @ 5:31 PM | General    Hamilton Spectator    Publications   

Emma-Jayne Schenk  |  MYSTERY shrouds Coleraine’s 24 hour self-serve petrol station, which has been without petrol or gas for what is believed to be months. Residents and passers-bys who rely on this service have been unable to access petrol at the station, with [...]

Centre doomed? 0

10 May 2012 @ 5:28 PM | General    Hamilton Spectator    Publications   

Danielle Grindlay  |  NATIONAL Centre for Farmer Health staff were expecting its work to be rolled out on a national and international level, but were instead devastated by the program’s scrapping from last week’s State Budget. Staff redundancies and eventual collapse looms, but [...]

Robin Hood budget bites business 0

10 May 2012 @ 5:26 PM | General    Hamilton Spectator    Publications   

Rex Martinich  |  HAMILTON families could be $1000-$2000 better off in the Federal budget through family tax benefits and school student bonuses. Changes to the tax free threshold will keep more money in the average person’s pocket, at the expense of businesses and [...]

Banishing birds’ bad habits to avoid footballers’ injuries 0

10 May 2012 @ 5:11 PM | General    Hamilton Spectator    Publications   

Kristy McDonald  |  CORELLAS are causing headaches around the south-west, with the Branxholme-Wallacedale Football Club being the latest victim of the bird’s bad habits. The damage to the football ground had to be reviewed and meet health and safety regulations before the club [...]

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