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  • Peter O’Roure steps down as Beaufort’s librarian

    USUALLY when your interviewee rings a few minutes before your scheduled meeting, you brace yourself for the worst. A cancellation? An eleventh-hour change of heart about speaking to the media? Thankfully it was no such news which would have sent the Advocate’s brains trust scrambling for another story. And I should have known better. I […]

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  • Third Nalder Tracey Trophy for Naomi Medlyn

    NAOMI MEDLYN became a Nalder Tracey trophy winner for a third time on Monday – sharing the award with Carisbrook’s Laura Hurse following a thrilling count. Medlyn polled three votes in the final match of the season to jump ahead of Natte Bealiba teammate Ella Tranter and equal Hurse on 25 votes to be named […]

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  • 400 of the best for Colleen Soulsby

    COLLEEN Soulsby dreamed of playing senior netball for Avoca alongside her favourite player. “As a little girl I used to sit there watching Colleen Drummond and idolising her, because she had my name, saying ‘I’m going to be in the seniors one day’.” Not only was Soulsby living this dream when she ran out onto […]

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  • Lexton on the look out for platypuses

    LEXTON residents are on the look-out for platypuses in the region as part of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s mission to document known sightings. While the platypus is not listed as an endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature upgraded their status to ‘Near Threatened’ this year, with researchers hoping to update the Living […]

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  • Wandering Walkers set for the ultimate adventure

    REMEMBER those 50-seat Gold buses which transported schoolkids to their excursions? Well, this is what the Walkers – Carla, Josh and their two daughters – are set to call home as they begin their tour around Australia. It was a dream Carla and Josh had held onto for eight years before deciding to act on […]

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  • Lexton on the look out for platypuses

    LEXTON residents are on the look-out for platypuses in the region as part of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s mission to document known sightings. While the platypus is not listed as an endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature upgraded their status to ‘Near Threatened’ this year, with researchers hoping to update the Living […]

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  • Parkrun off to a great start in Beaufort

    UPWARDS of 80 runners have braved the cold over the last fortnight to participate in the launch of Beaufort’s parkrun around the lake. The program, which consists of a five-kilometre course or two laps around the Beaufort lake, launched in the town a fortnight ago and has attracted participants from as far as Brisbane, Ararat […]

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