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NSW rises early and honours the fallen

Thousands of people commemorated the fallen at Anzac Day services across NSW with many going on to enjoy a game of two-up at pubs in the afternoon.

AAP Newswire

Yarrawonga Netball

A Grade Yarrawonga 57 def by Wangaratta 59 It was an absolutely stellar display of fast-paced and physical netball. The Pigeon’s best came out firing in front of the big Easter Sunday crowd at Mulwala against the reigning premiers to go into...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

In brief

Trio face court over aggravated burglary

Riverine Herald

11 hours ago

Pre-world conference workshop

At the request of Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), South Pacific Area President Gail Commens, Yarrawonga /Border CWA Branch “answered the call/volunteered” to help two ladies from Tuvalu Island to gain some new tailoring skills...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Pre-world conference workshop

Yarrawonga Chronicle

China, Saudi fail on IP rights, says USTR

The US has listed another Chinese e-commerce site and Saudi Arabia as “notorious” in its annual review of how intellectual properties rights are protected.

AAP Newswire

18 minutes ago

Trespass laws the priority to protect farmers

Shadow Minister for Agriculture Peter Walsh says the government is stalling on calls to fix farm trespass laws, despite Victorian farmers and farm businesses still being relentlessly targeted by extreme activists. Mr Walsh said the Federal Liberal...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Gold Stars for service

Four volunteer firefighters from northern Victoria have been recognised for a combined 157 years of service to their communities, including their significant dedication to district championships.

Country News

Finance

Shareholder group to reject AMP pay again

The Australian Shareholder’s Association says it plans to vote against AMP Ltd’s executive pay proposals for a second straight year.

AAP Newswire

China, Saudi fail on IP rights, says USTR

The US has listed another Chinese e-commerce site and Saudi Arabia as “notorious” in its annual review of how intellectual properties rights are protected.

AAP Newswire

18 minutes ago

Trespass laws the priority to protect farmers

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Gold Stars for service

Four volunteer firefighters from northern Victoria have been recognised for a combined 157 years of service to their communities, including their significant dedication to district championships.

Country News

Finance

Shareholder group to reject AMP pay again

The Australian Shareholder’s Association says it plans to vote against AMP Ltd’s executive pay proposals for a second straight year.

AAP Newswire

Most popular

Shepparton man caught travelling at 191km/h

Shepparton Highway Patrol officers nabbed a driver allegedly travelling at 191km/h in Shepparton about 11.50pm last night. The 20-year-old probationary driver was detected in an 80km/h zone on Goulburn Valley Highway. The Shepparton man had his...

Madeleine Caccianiga

20 Apr 2019

Shepparton family preserves fruit at its best

A Shepparton family’s business is set to slash water use in its apple and pear storage facility by up to 80 per cent and stop two tonnes of plastic going to landfill each year as a result of ground-breaking technology.

Alana Christensen

Dairy

Family fighting to stay afloat

The Clark family has always had firm plans for a future in the dairy industry.

Sophie Baldwin

Industry is broken

Steve Dalitz is officially a statistic — collateral damage.

Sophie Baldwin

Prepare for water Campaspe

UP TO 900 Ml of environmental water will be sent down the Campaspe River across six days this month, and then up to 40 Ml a day until winter.

Riverine Herald

22 Apr 2019

GoFish Nagambie event ambassador filming at event

Television fishing personality Paul Worsteling will drop in a line in Nagambie today, filming an episode for his series IFISH.

Tara Whitsed

16 hours ago

Yarrawonga power network maintenance

A planned power outage will occur in Yarrawonga, Cobram and surrounding areas early next month as part of electricity distribution business Powercor’s ongoing maintenance program to ensure the network continues to deliver safe and reliable power...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

14 hours ago

Terror arrest clouds Anzac Day services

Australians and New Zealanders have again paid tribute to veterans at Anzac Day commemorations.

AAP Newswire

Galleries

Enjoying the outdoors at Victoria Park Lake

News photographer Megan Fisher visited Victoria Park Lake yesterday and caught up with some of the children enjoying the playground facilities.

Shepparton News

UK services honour Anzacs’ grim fortitude

Thousands of Australians, New Zealanders and Britons have commemorated Anzac Day in London, with a special focus on the shattered men who returned from WWI.

AAP Newswire

1 hour ago

Tatura moves into goat milk powder

Tatura Milk has begun processing goat milk, signing a five-year deal with premium infant formula company Bubs Australia to convert fresh goat milk directly from the farm gate into infant formula. Bubs Australia founder and chief executive Kristy...

Dairy News

Local

Pre-world conference workshop

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Trespass laws the priority to protect farmers

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Yarrawonga Netball

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Yarrawonga power network maintenance

Yarrawonga Chronicle

14 hours ago

Council’s new directors

Federation Council’s new look senior organisation structure: from left, Director Corporate and Community Services Jo Shannon, General Manager Adrian Butler, Mayor Pat Bourke, Director Development and Environment Susan Appleyard and Director...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

More past players, more the merrier

There might be a new entrance into the football at the JC Lowe Oval this season but many of the same faces will be greeting players and supporters at the gate. For several decades a loyal band of club stalwarts from the Yarrawonga Football and...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

We need to become electricity neutral – Cr Miegel

Cr Paul Miegel wants the Federation Council area to commit to becoming electricity neutral – generating electricity equal to, or greater than, its consumption by June 2025. “Let’s set an agenda for direction. I’m looking for a team effort...

Robert Muir

16 hours ago

Local teenager umpires big game

One of the three field umpires in last Sunday’s big Easter football clash between Yarrawonga and Wang Magpies at Mulwala was town resident 17-year-old Judd Hooper. It was his third Ovens and Murray league senior match this season. “It was my...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Coffees for a cause

By Cliona Ingram A double decker bus in Yarrawonga Mulwala would be an unlikely sight but last week that was a reality as Lawrence Norton made his way through the twin towns as part of his journey around Australia in ‘Corazón’, selling coffee...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

17 hours ago

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EVENTS

Alexandra on Perkins Market

The Alexandra on Perkins Market – after more than a decade away, the monthly market makes a welcome return to the heart of the Alexandra township. Just a short leisurely stroll from the local shops and cafes, visitors and locals can now enjoy...

Simone Dunne

Benalla Lakeside Market

Wide range of fresh fruit, vegetables, plants, gifts and much more. Live entertainment each month. This market is organised and managed by the Rotary and Lions Clubs of Benall

Simone Dunne

Kilmore Scout Market

Welcome to The Kilmore Market it is held on the last Saturday of each month at Hudson Park in Kilmore, Victoria from 9am-2pm and managed by 1st Kilmore Scouts. Standard stall 3x3 fees are $15 your car is left next to your stall and will need to have...

Simone Dunne

Rochester Town Market

The Rochester Town Market is held on the fourth Saturday of the month at the Shire Hall/ Skate Park

Simone Dunne

Australians walk against melanoma

Jay’s Longest Melanoma March will make its way through Yarrawonga this Sunday, April 28 with Aussie celebrities and Australia’s melanoma community uniting to help end melanoma. ‘Jay’s Longest Melanoma March’ will see melanoma patients and...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

18 hours ago

Pacy Pies pounce on Pigeons

Senior SCORES Yarrawonga Pigeons 1.2 5.4 5.10 8.11 59 Wangaratta Magpies 6.5 8.8 11.14 17.18 120 Goals: Yarrawonga: B. Symes 3, M. Casey 3, M. Gorman, X. Leslie. Wangaratta: M. Newton 5, L. Hourigan 2, J. McClounan 2, M. Hedin 2, B. Speight 2, W...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Real Estate

Find your place

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15 Coco Crescent, Yarrawonga

For Sale | $825,000 - $907,000

59 Anchorage Way, Yarrawonga

For Sale | $329,000

34 Robinson Way, Yarrawonga

Regional

GoFish Nagambie event ambassador filming at event

Television fishing personality Paul Worsteling will drop in a line in Nagambie today, filming an episode for his series IFISH.

Tara Whitsed

16 hours ago

State award ‘was a delightful surprise’

LOCAL dairy producers Camel Milk Co have found joy in the toughest of times, claiming a spot among the state winners in the 2019 Delicious Harvey Norman Produce Awards for their products last Tuesday.

Kyabram Free Press

Nuclear petition calls for council support

Hundreds of locals have petitioned Benalla Rural City Council asking them to endorse The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

Benalla Ensign

In brief

Trio face court over aggravated burglary

Riverine Herald

11 hours ago

Homegrown produce

Some of the delicious citrus fruits we purchase from the supermarket come straight from the Mowbray Farm near Berrigan.

Southern Riverina News

Creating volunteering opportunities for people with a disability

Creating meaningful volunteering opportunities for people with disability is something Cobram Youth Op Shop’s Debbie Johns is passionate about.

Cobram Courier

Searching for Easter eggs

On Good Friday, Neil Beer Seymour hosted its first community Easter egg hunt at their Holden and Mitsubishi dealership.

Seymour Telegraph

Council cools on pool decision

CAMPASPE Shire Council has granted four outdoor pools in its smaller communities a stay of execution.

Tyla Harrington

Help Rosie find her way home

DESPITE multiple sightings in Central Victoria and repeated attempts to catch her, Rosie the Maremma remains on the run.

Vanessa Wiltshire

Exhibition opens soon

Weaving Our Stories Together and Stories Through Clay were two free community art activities designed and delivered by members of Splinter Contemporary Artists at Converge On the Goulburn last month.

Tatura Guardian

Community invited to Action Plan’s launch

Intereach is inviting community members to join with staff in launching the organisation’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2018 to 2020.

Deniliquin Pastoral Times

We need to become electricity neutral – Cr Miegel

Cr Paul Miegel wants Federation Council area to commit to becoming electricity neutral – generating electricity equal to, or greater than, its consumption by June 2025. “Let’s set an agenda for direction. I’m looking for a team effort...

Robert Muir

Sport

KDL netball Violet Town takes on Murchison

This weekend the Kyabram District League netball season returns after the Easter weekend bye and all 14 sides playing will be out to restart their campaigns.

Aydin Payne

Rural

Gold Stars for service

Four volunteer firefighters from northern Victoria have been recognised for a combined 157 years of service to their communities, including their significant dedication to district championships.

Country News

Water

Burke urged to visit

In a attempt to summon Federal Shadow Water Minister Tony Burke to experience firsthand the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, State Member for Shepparton Suzanna Sheed travelled to Sydney to declare her concern for the region.

Country News

14 hours ago

Animal Health

Proof how critical calf care is

Half of a cow’s lifetime height and growth is achieved in the first six months of its life, according to a visiting American calf-rearing specialist. David Kuehnel was raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, which reared 1200 specially-fed veal...

Dairy News

Tatura moves into goat milk powder

Dairy News

Livestock

Success at Sydney show for Yambuna stud

Yambuna stud Redgums Red Angus has tasted success on its first trip to the Sydney Royal Easter Show, winning Champion Interbreed Bull last Monday.

Country News

Markets

The rise of dairy alternative drinks in Australian supermarkets

Australians love dairy products and consume more dairy per capita than most other developed countries. In 2018 Australians drank close to 102 litres of milk per person with a proportion accounted for in coffees. More recently there has been an...

Sofia Omstedt

New art unveiled

Members of the Devenish community gathered on April 14 to host a special ANZAC tribute and street parade, which also marked the official opening of the town’s latest silo art.

Simon Ruppert

Horticulture

GV apples have wide appeal

My Kitchen Rules contestants Mick and Jodie-Anne Barlow teamed up with Ardmona orchardist Rocky Varapodio last week to support the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.

Madeleine Caccianiga

Bega Cheese suffers profit decline

Bega Cheese has taken a huge hit to its bottom line, with profits almost halving in the first half of the 2018-19 financial year as a result of the poor season and the purchase of Saputo’s Koroit factory. The company said the figures, which were...

Dairy News

Fresh or salt fuels river fight

Central to the argument over the health of the Murray River and its environs is the demand from South Australia that the Lower Lakes, where the river meets the sea, must be maintained as freshwater lakes.

Geoff Adams

17 hours ago

Machinery & Products

For sale: wear and tear on patience

Buying things is easy, most of the time. Not as easy as it should be, of course. I for one have had far too many experiences along the lines of “Sorry mate, is me coming here to spend my money at your establishment an inconvenience to you?” In...

John Droppert

Management

Spot on with grazing management

Jan Giliam focuses on grazing management and benchmarks profit by how much of that home-grown pasture feeds his milking herd. To do that, he relies on an annual rainfall of about 1000 mm to produce grass and 2000 wrapped bales of pasture silage. He...

Jeanette Severs

Water

MDBA says plan helps lakes

Some signs displayed around the Coorong warn of impending disaster for the wetlands and identify the Murray as a ‘‘dying river’’.

Geoff Adams

Cropping

Call to cut pay risks

Grain traders must institute shorter payment terms across the industry, according to Victoria’s peak farming body.

Country News

23 Apr 2019

From the Experts

Summer heat advice

PROVIDING LIVESTOCK with shade and water during extreme heat is ‘‘paramount’’ according to an owner of a northern Victorian veterinary practice. Keith Fletcher, of Rochester Veterinary Practice, provided some tips on the best way to handle...

Dairy News

18 Feb 2019

Bluey immortalised

The oldest dog to have lived has been immortalised with a mural painted in Rochester.

Country News

National & World

NSW rises early and honours the fallen

Thousands of people commemorated the fallen at Anzac Day services across NSW with many going on to enjoy a game of two-up at pubs in the afternoon.

AAP Newswire

Finance

Shareholder group to reject AMP pay again

The Australian Shareholder’s Association says it plans to vote against AMP Ltd’s executive pay proposals for a second straight year.

AAP Newswire

China, Saudi fail on IP rights, says USTR

The US has listed another Chinese e-commerce site and Saudi Arabia as “notorious” in its annual review of how intellectual properties rights are protected.

AAP Newswire

18 minutes ago

UK services honour Anzacs’ grim fortitude

Thousands of Australians, New Zealanders and Britons have commemorated Anzac Day in London, with a special focus on the shattered men who returned from WWI.

AAP Newswire

1 hour ago

Horse Racing

Dale has sights on Wagga with Dark Eyes

Trainer Matt Dale will aim Dark Eyes at the Wagga Wagga Cup after his return to winning form in The Les Carlyon at Flemington.

AAP Newswire

7 hours ago

AFL

GWS call up Greene, Corr for AFL derby

GWS and Sydney have each made two changes for their AFL derby, while North Melbourne and Brisbane have opted to swing the axe after underwhelming losses.

AAP Newswire

6 hours ago

Terror arrest clouds Anzac Day services

Australians and New Zealanders have again paid tribute to veterans at Anzac Day commemorations.

AAP Newswire

Entertainment

Elvis Presley’s private jet up for sale

Hound Dog, a private jet once owned by music legend Elvis Presley, may no longer look high class but is still attracting attention in a disused corner of an airfield in New Mexico where it is up for sale. The Lockheed Jetstar, once a favourite among...

AAP Newswire

26 Jun 2018

Search for missing Qld man scaled back

Emergency crews have scaled back the search for a man who wandered away from Queensland’s Rabbits Eat Lettuce dance festival, where two people died this week.

AAP Newswire