29 Oct 08 | Decked out in multi-coloured flags, Lockhart celebrated the Spirit of the Land festival with fantastic farm sculptures and scarecrows hanging all over the place.
Festival chairperson Marie Van Stein said the quality of exhibits has just blown people away.
29 Oct 08 | TRYC FIRST UP WIN OVER HENTY
TRYC have made a perfect start to its 2008/09 season with a convincing win over Henty at The Rock, winning by 81 runs and going to top spot after round one.
The Swampies found the imposing TRYC total of 276 to hard to chase down, but were not disgraced in reaching 195 all out.
22 Oct 08 | Prized collections of historical objects once used as everyday items were exhibited at the Holbrook Lions Collectors Fair on Saturday.
“Collectors from Sydney, Wollongong, Goulburn, Canberra, Tumbalong, Wagga Wagga, Temora, Cootamundra, Albury, Melbourne and Holbrook set up their exhibits and traded in the Holbrook town hall,” Collectors Fair co-ordinator John Lynch said.
22 Oct 08 | Some thrilling sets of tennis were played in section one on Saturday. In the Barrandana White versus YC Ryan Match, the Whites led by 4 in the men’s sets. Whites increased the lead to eight games going in to the mixd but YC Ryan won the first three mixed sets 18 games to six to lead by four games with one set to play. Whites won this set 6-2 and the match ended in a draw each winning eight sets. Result 8/75 each.
15 Oct 08 | The Fred Wilson Memorial Bowls Day was played at Lockhart last Saturday with forty bowlers participating, including members of the Wilson family with their mother, Biddy being a keen spectator.
15 Oct 08 | Lockhart is set to establish an Eco industrial park that aims to attract industry working in partnership with each other to provide solutions to energy, raw materials and waste.
A forum held on Thursday by the town’s leaders was the beginning of a community awareness campaign to investigate and support the concept.
01 Oct 08 | Holbrook Women’s Bowls president Joan Papworth welcomed nearly 90 lawn bowlers to the Holbrook tournament on Thursday.
Fine weather for this year’s carnival was a bonus for the bowlers as “last year’s tournament was a wash-out,” secretary June Cookson said.
01 Oct 08 | An outbreak of gastroenteritis at the Holbrook Hospital has restricted access to emergency cases only.
On Monday afternoon 5pm, the Holbrook Hospital public car-park was deserted except for the odd plover hitting the hospital’s glass entrance doors with its beak.
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