By Chris Oldfield
UNITED by grief, leaders of 26 community groups gathered last Monday at the Lucindale Police Station. Their highly respected police officer Brevet Sgt Jason Doig had gone to a job 120 kms away, and never returned.
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Welcome to our new website, where we’ll keep serving independent news to Naracoorte and the surrounding communities, but also offering new opportunities to get involved.
By Chris Oldfield
UNITED by grief, leaders of 26 community groups gathered last Monday at the Lucindale Police Station. Their highly respected police officer Brevet Sgt Jason Doig had gone to a job 120 kms away, and never returned.
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Midweek Pennant results round 8: 22nd November 2023
By Heather Richards
Division 1
Millicent Red 52/6 defeated Mt Gambier Blue 47/2
Robe 44/4 drew with Port MacDonnell Red 44/4
Mt Gambier Red 59/8 defeated Naracoorte 40/0
Port MacDonnell Blue 55/8 defeated Millicent Blue 32/0
Mt Gambier RSL Red 53/8 defeated Mt Gambier RSL Blue 27/0
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By Chris Oldfield
BLACK armbands, a minute’s silence, half mast flags, Adelaide State buildings lit up in blue and wreath laying all tell the same story.
Lucindale Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig, 53, went to work and never came home.
Now a State funeral is being planned for the highly respected police officer.
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By Michael Waters
Fireballs had an 8-4 win over Volcanos in the latest round of matches in the A grade last Monday night. Troy Harris won 3 singles, Michael Williams and Harry Schroeder won a single each, and Fireballs teamed up well to take out all three doubles games.
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By Chris Oldfield
Thunder, lightning, rain and hail last Friday dumped up to 170mm on Naracoorte, causing stormwater to gush into homes, businesses and service centres. Flooded buildings, fallen trees causing blackouts to 300 homes and hailstones the size of marbles to golf balls wreaked havoc. Most rain fell Friday between 5pm and 7pm.
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By Zoe Williams and Sophie Matters
The first game for Tuesday night was played by the Yetis and the Pegasi, the very first game was between Dean Dunsford and Helen Grady, the scores were 9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 8-11 and 5-11, and it was Helen who won.
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By Kristin Murdock
Naracoorte High School’s Agricultural Studies students and staff had a busy show season competing at both the Royal Adelaide Show and Royal Melbourne Show in September. The dedicated teams trained once a week after school and were involved in the whole process.
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By Valma Jennings
Robe Bowling Club held a Bowling Arm Tournament on Monday 20th November, in balmy conditions, with 14 teams attending and playing 4×10 ends of 2 bowl triples. Players attended from Woodville, Blyth, Salisbury, Jervois and across the South East. The day was sponsored by Ann Moore, John Maybe and Ian Bruce and Family.
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By Graham Pymer, MLA
Cattle: LWB 11 – LWY 576 – LWC 182 – OAY 24
Cattle numbers declined to 795 this week at Naracoorte, that’s a drop of 445 head on last week. Quality was mostly good with few plainer cattle through the offering.
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By Linda Prentice
The Naracoorte RSL ladies had a delayed start for their Round 8 at home last week against Millicent. Fortunately the Hurn Green was playable by the regulation wait time, as the new green was still well under water.
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A new State Government-funded initiative will support the Limestone Coast timber and forestry sectors to address current skill gap shortages and develop the ‘workforce of the future’. Minister for Education, Skills & Training Blair Boyer officially opened the Mount Gambier Skills Centre this week, which will have a specific focus on timber and forestry, with an accompanying field based role working directly with industry.
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By Jenny Dickenson
Zeus has finished on top of the ladder 1 point ahead of Hera and will battle it out in the grand final on Wednesday night which is sure to have some great matches and will be interesting to see who will win as they have been so close all pennant.
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