Arty kids get creative
Local kids had a chance to get creative over the holidays with the very popular HG Kids sessions at the Hamilton Gallery. The children...
Happy return for Genesis
The gift that keeps on giving: due to an ‘unscheduled incident’ on a recent test car I was left with a gap on my...
Laneways lead to farm profits
Farm laneways are a great way to improve farm efficiency and reduce labour requirements.
Laneways can also provide a useful refuge area during natural disasters...
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and farewell…
GATHERED together are the staff of the Hamilton Spectator, outside the historic building in Gray St where the paper has been produced for 165 years. With a change of ownership, the masthead is taking a break and is planned to return as a weekly in 2025.
Local paper makes historic impression
I’VE been very privileged to have a run as editor of this newspaper and to add to its 165-year history, albeit in just a small way; 12 months is hardly a drop in the bucket of the many decades of news reported at the Hamilton Spectator, but my name will be on that list all the same.
Spectator Retro
A look back at previous editions of the paper 50 and 25 years ago
Handbook launched to tackle farmer mental health
THE Victorian Farmers Federation Making our Farms Safer Project (VFF MOFS) is aiming to tackle the scourge of mental health in rural communities by launching the new ‘Harvesting Change’ handbook for farmers.
WEATHER WORRIES FOR FARMERS
VICTORIAN farmer sentiment edged down this quarter – the third consecutive reading in “negative territory”.
Orford Vintage Rally
THE Orford Vintage Rally is on again on the weekend of January 18-19, 2025, at the little township of Orford.
Sunday ‘Music in the Gardens’
FOLLOWING the success of the first ‘Music in the Gardens’ session with the Evergreens, entertainment in the Hamilton Botanic Gardens will be back on January 5, 2025, from 2-4pm.
Christmas Window Competition winners
THE Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) Christmas Window Competition Judges Choice went to Brown Bird Haus, where owner, Deb Hintum said it has been...
Potholes in focus
WINDING up the year in Hamilton ahead of Christmas were Deputy Leader of The Nationals and Lowan MP Emma Kealy and her colleague, Leader of the Nationals and Shadow Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Danny O’Brien, on Tuesday.