Braw day out for the Highland Games
South Australian athletes Lachlan Page and Lexie Kermond are this year’s Tria Prima Highland Games State Champions – after a day of events at the Callington Show last Sunday.
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Christmas hampers campaign kicks off
The countdown has begun for one of Strathalbyn’s biggest community support campaigns, the annual Christmas Hampers drive.
Sport
Braw day out for the Highland Games
South Australian athletes Lachlan Page and Lexie Kermond are this year’s Tria Prima Highland Games State Champions – after a day of events at the Callington Show last Sunday.
Boaters set sail on new season
About 100 people celebrated the start of the new boating season on the weekend at the Goolwa Aquatic Club’s open day. The program was launched for the clubs that operate out of the Barrage Road building: the Goolwa Sailing Club, Goolwa Vintage...
Strathalbyn Storm Shine at Murray Bridge Carnival
Over the long weekend, Strathalbyn Storm hit the courts in Murray Bridge for the opening basketball carnival of the 2025/26 season - and what a start it was. Across three big days of competition, the club made its presence felt with incredible...
Goolwa Sailing Club’s season launch
Goolwa Sailing Club’s racing season kicked off on Sunday in challenging conditions for sailors who were perhaps a little rusty after the winter break. Eight boats sailed, including the maiden voyage of Ben Kelsey’s newly acquired Fireball...
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...
