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10 Jul 2025

Battery storage facility to integrate with Strathalbyn substation

A proposed facility providing an “essential service” to the community is looking to integrate into an existing electricity substation just outside the Strathalbyn town centre. Lunio Energy has lodged a development application for the...

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10 Jul 2025

Council News

Mount Barker adopts rate rise

Mount Barker District Council formally approved a general rate increase of 3.5 per cent as part of its 2025/26 Annual Business Plan, Budget and Rating Policy on Monday night. This marks the final year of council’s three-year plan to smooth out...

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10 Jul 2025

Football

Roosters take home the Cooney Cup

Strathalbyn’s Senior Colts defeated Langhorne Creek on Saturday to take home the ‘Cooney Cup’ for another consecutive year as part of the two clubs’ annual memorial game. The Strathalbyn and Langhorne Creek Football Clubs come together each...

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09 Jul 2025

Sport

Strikers score first win of the season

The Strathalbyn Strikers hosted Brothers United on Saturday, hoping to secure their first win of the season after a tough start to the year. Coach Dan Moore had a fully fit squad to choose from for the first time, opting for a pacy front four of...

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09 Jul 2025

Digital editions

The Southern Argus - July 10, 2025

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09 Jul 2025

Community initiative turns into small business

The idea for Strathalbyn’s newest business Hills Meals started years ago, when a local cook Nicola Boss philanthropically donated home-cooked meals to vulnerable community members, particularly the elderly or people living alone. With a career...

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04 Jul 2025

Goolwa

Council considers dirt jumps feedback

Alexandrina Council is calling on riders who use the dirt jumps tracks at Mount Compass and Goolwa to provide their feedback on upcoming maintenance works to the popular recreation facilities. The maintenance work is scheduled to start in July, with...

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Artists sought for Town Square project

Mount Barker District Council is seeking expressions of interest from artists to create a public artwork for Mount Barker’s new Town Square. Up to $150,000 has been allocated by council to commission a piece of public art marking an exciting step...

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Football

Pink ladies put on a show

A parade of pink adorned the Strathalbyn Football Club on Saturday for its Ladies Day. This year’s event had patrons dressed in pink to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation, along with a preloved clothes rack for people to peruse...

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Sport

Southern Fleurieu boys and girls bring home a gold

Teams of young netballers came together from Monday to Wednesday last week for the annual SAPSASA State Netball Carnival at Netball SA Stadium. The days were filled with incredible netball, despite the downpour of rain that fell. The girls’...

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Sport

Goolwa competes in Wharf to Woolshed

Twenty Goolwa Rowing Club members participated in the annual Wharf to Woolshed Long Row at Renmark on Saturday, June 21. The row, which consisted of three stages, commenced at the Renmark Rowing Club and concluded 36kms upstream at the Woolshed...

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Weather burst causes localised flooding

A heavy downpour combined with wild winds early last week caused several coastal properties along with Strathalbyn’s basketball stadium to be inundated with water. A cold front moved over South Australia, including its coastal waters, from late...

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