A corroboree 140 years in the making
After 140 years, a familiar sight returned to Strathalbyn over the weekend, as the Strathalbyn Aboriginal Action Reference Group (SAARG) held a corroboree
Sport
Boat club celebrates 50 years
The River Murray Boat Owners Association is marking 50 years since its first initial meeting at the Terminus Hotel in Strathalbyn.
Adelaide Hills Basketball Carnival headed our way
An inaugural basketball carnival organised by three local associations is headed our way in December.
Serving up award-winning pies and Judo moves
Goolwa Bakery owner Chris Taylor has a finger in many pies, including judo.
Friends and netball
Marlene Megaw, Bev Clark and Hellen Ness confess to being in their 80s, enjoying a friendship that spans back to the early days of Strathalbyn netball.
Rural
Honey, check this out
An avid gardener recently started a bee-rilliant new hobby, of beekeeping, to improve his crops, and has been reaping what he has sown. Goolwa’s Phil Sargent has planted about 200 native species with his brother on their Goolwa property over the...
Milang farmer’s hopes rained on due to unseasonably wet weather
A Milang farmer estimates the unseasonably wet summer has caused about 25 per cent of income loss for grain farmers in the region. His neighbour has recorded 150mm of rain since harvest started since the end of October, and as reported in this...
Advancing women in agriculture
When Currency Creek farmer Belle Baker was growing up, women weren’t always accepted as farmers. These days Ms Baker, with help from her partner Patrick O’Driscoll, is tailor-making courses to help women on the land fill gaps in their knowledge...
A healthy distance advised for livestock welfare
Hazards for livestock and the best methods to protect their health were the subject matters of a recent Milang Agricultural Bureau meeting. Many of the actions undertaken by governments in the early days of COVID parallel methods used by livestock...
