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Getting fighting fit for a battle with depression

IMAGINE this for a moment. A long, deep, black hole, irresistibly drawing you, guiding you, pulling you, into its depths. It’s cold, but it’s also strangely, even seductively, comforting — it increasingly presses its dead weight on you, all...

Jared Prestwidge
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Businesses “court” up in construction woes

BUSINESSES in Annesley Street are feeling the pinch as lack of foot traffic dwindles due to nearby roadworks.

Alex Gretgrix
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The Lead with Charmayne Allison - September 22

TONIGHT on the The Lead, Moama Anglican Grammar Grade 6 student Digby Newman has the disadvantaged in his heart as he does his part to support the Echuca Foodshare by donating food and other items to the cause

Ari Balle-Bowness
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PV Amphibious returns to Echuca after 143 years

THE PV Amphibious has made a long-awaited return to Echuca’s side of the Murray River recently.

Jared Prestwidge
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Pharmacy to raise money for Pink and Blue

DISTRICT residents are encouraged to support a community initiative fundraising for an Echuca early learning centre.

Ivy Jensen
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Echuca man pleads guilty to hit-run

AN ECHUCA man pleaded guilty to three offences stemming from a serious hit-run that left a man hospitalised earlier this year. Fairfax reported Joshua Abbott, 23, pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates Court this week to negligently causing...

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Thirty-five per cent of Veolia’s waste being sent to landfill

AS MUCH as 35 per cent of Echuca’s recycled waste is still ending up in landfill because too many people either don’t understand what should go in yellow topped bins — or don’t care.

Jared Prestwidge
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Murray River and Campaspe Shire councils sign Memorandum of Understanding

COUNCILS both sides of the border have officially recognised their collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) last week.

Lachlan Durling
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Blood van coming to Echuca

BLOOD donors are being reminded the mobile donor centre will be in Echuca next month.

Ivy Jensen
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Police crack down on rural crime

POLICE are cracking down on rural crime across the Murray River Police District.

Ivy Jensen
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Egg-cellent find as Echuca man cracks four double yolkers

IT’S about a one in a 1000 chance of cracking a double yolker egg. The odds are even higher if you manage to find two or even three.

Ivy Jensen
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The Lead with Charmayne Allison - September 18

Tonight on The Lead with Charmayne Allison, Billabong Ranch previewed their latest live show, Where the Long Paddock meets the Murray, which will open to the public this school holidays

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Council boundary restructure looks to stay the same

THE Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) doing away with separate wards in Campaspe Shire is looking unlikely as the latest representation and subdivision review for Campaspe Shire draws to a close.

Lachlan Durling
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No place like home: Missing house possibly in Echuca

A MELBOURNE family has lost its home. Literally. The much-loved childhood home of Tim Perdix stood in William St, Box Hill, for years but in 2006 was sold, pulled up and transported north. To Echuca. Where it has apparently disappeared, as surely as...

Alex Gretgrix
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Victorian Seniors Festival is fast approaching

IN PREPARATION for the Victorian Seniors Festival in October, a festival program of discounted events, entertainment and activities as well as a performance from theatre and TV icon Colleen Hewett has been released.

Lachlan Durling
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Echuca women encouraged to apply for sports leadership scholarships

ECHUCA women looking to pursue leadership and development roles in sport and active recreation can now apply for Victorian Government scholarships of up to $10,000.

Charmayne Allison
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Echuca Cenotaph walls to come down

CAMPASPE Shire Council has said it will remove the three memorial walls surrounding the Echuca Cenotaph this Thursday due to their instability.

Riverine Herald
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Rochester woman to be registered sex offender for life

ROCHESTER’S Andrea Yvonne Emmerson has entered a guilty plea in Bendigo’s County Court after grooming a teenage boy online. And has been told she will be a registered sex offender for the rest of her life. However, the boy at the centre of the...

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Man dead in suspicious circumstances

A man was located with life-threatening injuries on the Murray Valley Highway in Cohuna. It is believed the incident happened about 6am but the man was unable to be revived and died at the scene. More to come

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Echuca man charged with murder over Cohuna shooting

Homicide Squad detectives have charged an Echuca man with murder following the death of another man in Daltons Bridge near Cohuna yesterday. A 29-year-old Daltons Bridge man was located with life threatening injuries at an address on Easton Rd...

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Fatal collision on Goulburn Valley Highway

Emergency services are responding to a major collision on the Goulburn Valley Hwy near Gillespies Rd. The highway is closed in both directions and is under Victoria Police control. It will re-open when it is safe to do so. Drivers have been asked to...

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Nestle Tongala to close

Nestlé today announced plans to close its Tongala factory meaning all 106 roles at the factory will be made redundant. The closure of the factory, which primarily produces tinned milk products, will be staged progressively throughout a period of up...

Riverine Herald