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Sun shines brightly for Summer

If a star is born, so, in almost every case, is an artist. Very few, however, get both options in their DNAs – artists who will be stars. But one who is already well on her way is 16-year-old Summer Lewis, who has just taken out the $500 people’

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Band on the Rise

It’s rock and raw. It’s rock that roars. It’s rock and it’s really loud. And it’s all good old fashioned, gritty, garage based rock and bloody roll. Well, good old fashioned gritty spare bedroom based rock. Where an Echuca bedroom, with a lot of DIY

This farmer really, really, wants a wife

Roger Brewer really wants a wife, and all his mates have told him he needs to better sell himself. No self-respecting girl, they have told him, would be interested in a plain farm boy. None of them, however, could have realised the lengths to which Roger would go in

‘Get checked’ warns dying mum

HARVESTING HEALTH EVENT Date: Thursday, August 13 Time: 10am-2pm Location: The Gunbower Butter Factory, 34-36 Main St, Gunbower VIC Cost: Free (bookings/tickets are essential) Full details from www.harvestinghealthevent.com.au   Gaby Clark-Grundy is just 31 and has everything in the world to live for. Her

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Napier joins star studded Asian basketball tour

Victoria’s next generation of basketball talent is set for another exciting international opportunity, with two Select teams preparing to test themselves against some of Asia’s best young athletes.  And Echuca-Moama rising star Elise Napier is one of those in South Korea to stake a claim on their

Adam slipped one past council

Adam Auditori is essential to the smooth running – and sailing – of the Murray River’s paddle steamer fleet. Not to mention the hundreds of houseboats which ply the waters between Mildura and the Barmah Forest. Because he is the keeper of the Moama slipway and if he wasn’t here

Gunbower Racing Club set to strike more gold

The Moama Bowling Club Gunbower Gold Cup is one of the premier picnic meetings on the Victorian racing calendar and it’s on its way to striking even more gold. In what has been a huge 12 months for the club, it has now been nominated for the prestigious ISLA

Nice one Col, really nice one

You just want to wrap Col Pearse up in your arms and hug him better. Except he doesn’t really need that, he just wants to think about the next race because he knows he can’t do anything about the one he just finished. Even when he loses, the

Niall scoops the pool in golf championship

Frankie Niall has blitzed the Western Riverina District Rich River Golf Club Open Tournament – taking out both the men’s and junior scratch titles. He was competing against a strong field of competitors who made the most of the excellent winter playing conditions and beautifully presented West Course. In the

Known Unto God – and a schoolgirl

Kyabram’s Shylee Donaldson doubts her world will ever look quite the same again. Which seems bizarre, because the event she describes as lifechanging lasted just nine days from start to finish. And she spent much of that time gasping for breath as she trudged up steep mountains and trying

Century 21 boss says ideology is not economics

Property investors continue to shy away from regional Victoria and its onerous battery of state government taxes. And now that confidence crisis has been severely compounded by a federal budget determined to meddle in commodity markets. Century 21 Rich River Real Estate director Andrew Lochhead says where he is seeing

Like bats out of hell

It’s a huge stage for such little machines but when Adrian van der Sluys and his Screaming Diamonds team-mates launch their Pitt Specials into the sky above the Gold Coast in two weeks all hell will break loose. In the Pacific Airshow the sky might be the limit

EMTC's Moana Jr. cast sets sail

Echuca-Moama Theatre Company (EMTC) is ready to make waves with Disney's Moana Jr., announcing a talented cast ready to answer the call of the ocean. It follows two days of auditions which attracted 64 hopefuls from across the region. The final cast of 43 performers, aged between

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What the fog is going on?

Wonder why you have been waking up most mornings and can’t see your hand in front of your face? In plain English, it’s been foggy. In Bureau of Meteorology speak, Echuca, Rochester, and Kyabram have had so much persistent fog because we’re slap, bang under a massive

Pearse primed and ready to swim – and win

Col Pearse has been in a German-based Commonwealth Games training camp and has spoken exclusively to Red Gum Review about his preparations and his hopes for his medal swim on Friday. Swimming star Col Pearse says he is in the best shape of his life as he looks to

The Kokoda proves an ‘incredible’ confrontation

Hannah Finn travelled to Papua New Guinea in the school holidays with four other Year 11 students from the Murray Plains electorate of Nationals MP Peter Walsh. They each received a Colin Sinclair Kokoda Scholarship, to walk the historic Trail where they were immersed in the history of Australia’s

NSW Police report on Moama Grammar incident

A man will face court over an alleged domestic violence incident following a police operation at a school in the state's south yesterday. On Saturday 11 July 2026, officers attached to Murray River Police District commenced an investigation following reports a 27-year-old woman was assaulted by

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