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Eat or heat
By Nasik Swami: The vulnerable in the district are choosing between heating and eating this winter. If they turn on heating to keep themselves warm during the chilly nights, many say they will be faced with eye-watering power bills. So, what does the public do? The News asked our decision makers to explain why we […]
New budget, big plans
By Nasik Swami: The Naracoorte Lucindale Council has adopted its 2024–2025 Annual Business Plan and Budget, with a strong focus on the road network and Naracoorte Regional Livestock Exchange (NRLE). According to the council, the plan and budget that were adopted at the council’s June meeting also focus on keeping rates as reasonable as possible […]
Longridge help?
By Nasik Swami What’s the future of our community-owned aged care facility, Longridge Aged Care (LAC)? LAC is facing financial pressures due to the increased cost of business and is struggling to retain a stable workforce. While it has not considered exiting the...
Mpox alert
SA Health calls on those eligible to vaccinate now! By Nasik Swami SA Health is calling on the public to vaccinate themselves to protect against mpox. SA Health has been notified of three locally acquired cases of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in a man in his 20s,...
NLC rules out $35m sports hub
By Nasik Swami
A $35million sporting hub reliant on ratepayer cash has been officially ruled out by the Naracoorte- Lucindale Council. The council decided in its March meeting to handball the “project lead” back to the sporting clubs involved.
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Issue 193: 3 APR 2024: SPORTS ROUND-UP
Issue 193: 3 APR 2024: SPORTS ROUND-UP
Lucindale Golf Club
Lucindale Bowling Club
Naracoorte Table Tennis A&B Grade Autumn Season
Bordertown Gun Club
Lucindale Ladies Golf
Naracoorte Golf Club
Bridge@Bowls
SE Veterans golf AGM
Squash Autumn Pennant: round 8
Robe Bowling Club
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North Parklands survey on hold
By Chris Oldfield
TO avoid possible duplication, no ratepayer cash will be spent on a biodiversity survey of Naracoorte’s North Parklands “until further notice” following an 8-2 vote. Instead, Naracoorte Lucindale Council will have workshops to decide what to do with the parklands, particularly the pines which will soon be due for harvesting.
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Kingston SE Bowling Club
By Stephanie Capper
It was heartening to observe that many of our members signed up for the annual 100 Up on Wednesday October 11th. This event is a good occasion to practice draw bowling. We congratulate all our bowlers who entered this event. As the day wore on, the competition was whittled down to the […]
Telstra secrets
By Chris Oldfield
TELSTRA expects the SA Government will announce during its Country Cabinet meeting in Naracoorte a commitment to partially fund 27 mobile phone towers. The 27 towers form Telstra’s $40 million Limestone Coast Connectivity project, with each tower estimated to cost $1.5 million. The telco giant, which posted a $2.1 billion profit after […]
Bridge Club results
By Bridging the Gap
It was fantastic 28 ladies could play bridge at Naracoorte last week, we enjoyed having Julia Arnold back and seeing Chris McKenzie. Congratulations to Liz Ogilvie and Sue Hood (N/S) as well as Helen Stock and Jan Malpas (E/W), both pairs were winners in their respective direction for two consecutive weeks! […]
Frances is Thriving!
The small town of Frances on the South Australian / Victorian Border has been quite abuzz over the past few months with some major changes happening. The local football team, Border Districts, won theA Grade football premiership. A feat that hasn’t been achieved in over 30 years. The Border Districts Netball Club also had […]
Squash Spring Pennant: Round 7
By Jenny Dickenson
Hera are now equal top with Zeus after a big win 14-5 in last week’s spring squash pennant with Hades dropping to 4 th with a narrow loss to Hermes by 7 points, Posiden winning against Athena and Apollo got off the bottom with a win over Aphrodite which shows how things […]
Naracoorte RSL Bowling Club Pennant results: Round 3
By Linda Prentice
Naracoorte RSL had another good outcome for the teams playing this week, all at home. Friday, the ladies hosted Lucindale in very warm conditions with both rinks having the win. J Mark, L Prentice, S Green and M Neilson won 30 shots to 14 against C Ferguson, and L Mark, H Brody, […]
Fuel tax bite
By Nasik Swami.
Motorists in the South East are paying eye-watering fuel prices at bowsers as the end of the 22c per litre discount excise bites. Many drivers in the district this newspaper spoke to say they are paying record-high prices for their fuel when they can least afford it, and the surge is not […]
Naracoorte Rangers Baseball report
By Martin Wirper.
Games have begun again in the Mount Gambier and Districts Baseball League. After last season’s tough run in division 2 the Naracoorte seniors are now back in division 3. Our first game was away to Millicent on Saturday. Naracoorte batted first and secured two runs courtesy of Brady Fox and Ken Sisson. […]
Boost for community groups
By Nasik Swami.
A total of $7,500 will be distributed to various community groups as part of the Naracoorte-Lucindale Council’s Community Chest Program for 2023-2024. Revealing this, council manager for finance and corporate, Alex Edmonds, said they received seven applications requesting a total of $16,257, but only four were approved. The distribution of funds for […]
SE Veteran golf results
By Max Clifford
On a bright sunny day the field at Penola was 78 players including 4 Glenelg vets. The First div winner was Greg Sinclair, Robe with 38 points, from Kerry Scales, Heywood, 37 and Mark Pilmore, Mill, 34. Second Div was won by the local, Trev Williams with 38 points from John Kirby […]
Walk for cancer
By Nasik Swami.
It’s quite rare to see a human Lego-Man walking along the highway on a casual day. And if you do, you might wonder why. Meet Alex McIntyre, 36, and he is the South East’s Human Lego-Man with a purpose. Mr McIntyre promised his mother, Livvy Reiter, that he would walk the 100km […]
Lower South East Bowls Association
Midweek Pennant results round 2: 11th October 2023: By Heather Richards.
Division 1: Mt Gambier RSL Red 47/4 drew Mt Gambier Blue 47/4. Mt Gambier Red 62/8 defeated Mt Gambier RSL Blue 35/0. Naracoorte 55/6 defeated Millicent Red 43/2. Port MacDonnell Red 59/8 defeated Millicent Blue 39/0. Robe 50/8 defeated Port MacDonnell Blue 36/0. Friday […]
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