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Huw Cushing | FOR the Saunders family it was the welcoming home of a loved one and the final chapter in a 70-year story. After travelling nearly 4000 kilometres, soil from thePort Moresbygrave of WWII soldier Harry Saunders, was returned to Gunditjmara country in a unique ceremony last Saturday. Private Saunders’ youngest brother, Glenelg Shire Councillor Ken Saunders, said the soil was placed where the ashes of brother and fellow WWII soldier, Reg Saunders were spread in 1990. “If somebody is buried away … Continue reading 0 Comments
Spectator-Observer Partnership | PORTLAND District Health (PDH) director of nursing Frank Megens has outlined the efforts the service’s surgical and accident and emergency (A&E) teams played in providing initial care last Monday to a 20-year-old man who has been shot in the stomach. … Continue reading 0 Comments
James Bourke | STUDENTS at Bayview College have been busy organising a FReeZa event that will take place on the eve of the Upwelling Festival. The students are apart of a Year 11 VCAL class that has been working in partnership with the … Continue reading 0 Comments
Scott Malcolm | TEENAGE Drumborg showjumping sensation Joseph Patterson has continued his success at his sport’s elite level. The 15-year old recently returned from representing Australia in the International Showjumping Competition in Mauritius. With fellow junior rider New South Wales’ Samantha Tripp, Patterson … Continue reading 0 Comments
Kristy McDonald | THE Spectator scooped the pool at Friday night’s Rural Press Club Victoria Awards, taking home five awards including the inaugural Media Outlet of the Year Award. Spectator journalist, Danielle Grindlay, won the major award for an individual when she was … Continue reading
Emma-Jayne Schenk | WE all remember going to the butcher with mum, the man behind the counter handing you a slice of chicken loaf, if you were lucky, with a nod and a wave. But the days of the friendly local butcher are … Continue reading
Sam Fleming | LAST Friday’s flash flooding gave some Hamilton residents an unexpected scare, but for other locals, lack of maintenance to drainage systems has been a problem they have dealt with all too often. Thanks to blockages at drains and undersized culverts … Continue reading
Huw Cushing | THE language of opera is a foreign one for most people, let alone young students. It’s stranger still, when sung in a language you’re never spoken, or for many, never heard. For a select group of Portland primary and secondary … Continue reading
Danielle Grindlay | A POT-belly stove kept nine farmers warm as they locked themselves in a shed for three days and had a crack at making their very own kangaroo-hide whip. Two tutors flew down from Toowoomba, Queensland, to share their expertise in … Continue reading
Lisa Cameron | BUGS made a special appearance at the Hamilton Library on Tuesday, but don’t worry – it was all in the name of education. Museum Victoria’s Discovery Program brought its Backyard Bugs session to the library to teach children all about … Continue reading
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