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Sunraysia adventure turns sour
A SCOTTISH backpacker who came to Sunraysia for “adventure and fun” has fled town after her experience with a local hostel left her with “borderline…
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Costa grows kids’ interest
THE opportunities Sunraysia students have to connect to the environment far outweighs anything available to city kids, according to ABC Gardening Australia’s Costa Georgiadis.The popular…
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Football and art collide
IT’S not the most likely combination – art and football, but for Canadian-born Kendra Heil it’s a perfect match.VFLW player Heil was in Mildura this…
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Home court advantage
A PACKED Hothouse is like having “a sixth man” on the court for Mildura Heat players.With only game one of this grand final series at…
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Closing the city-country divide
BROADENING the perspectives of Australian students by connecting country schools with their city counterparts, that’s the mission of the NSW City Country Alliance.About 25 school…
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State MPs lobby feds
VICTORIAN Water Minister Lisa Neville has written to her federal counterpart David Littleproud urging him to look at ways environmental water can be traded to…
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Pride in town history
THERE is something special about having a lane called after your family’s name.Mildura’s Syd Nash, a direct descendant of the Nash bakery and a family…
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A mosaic of perfect art
A REVAMP of Merbein’s main street is now underway in an act of community spirit. Volunteers spent yesterday cutting, gluing and grouting colourful mosaic artworks which…
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The adventures of Banjo and Pepper
THE bizarre circumstances surrounding the mystery of two pet kelpies that went missing in July has left a Merbein family searching for answers. The Munn family’s…
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Appeal could go higher
THE Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) says this week’s Court of Appeal judgment not to increase the term of imprisonment handed to the killer…
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Abattoir cops council notice
MILDURA Council has issued a planning infringement notice to Meatco’s Mildura South abattoir. It followed a call by planning consultant Roy Costa last week for the…
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Rail behind connect crisis
SUNRAYSIA is dealing with social, economic and tourism factors that weren’t in place when passenger rail was cut 25 years ago and its return would…









