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Andrew Paloczi

Local libraries reopen

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auGANNAWARRA Shire Council is cautiously easing COVID-19 restrictions, having opened three of its four library branches and its two customer service centres on Wednesday. The Leitchville Library branch will...

03 Jul 2020

Sport

Kerang players in CVFLW team of the year

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auCentral Victorian Football League Women’s (CVFLW) Team of the Year for 2020 was announced recently despite community football’s COVID-19 enforced absence, with a couple of Kerang players featuring in the...

03 Jul 2020

News

Tailored COVID restrictions

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auTHE Andrews Government’s required change of tack, intensifying its COVID-19 restrictions for Melbourne coronavirus hotspots, shifts focus from a consistent Victoria-wide approach to a willingness to...

03 Jul 2020

News

Capital works increase in shire’s 20/21 budget

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auGANNAWARRA Shire Council’s budget for the 2020/2021 financial year is set, featuring a $17.5 million Capital Works program, up from a budgeted $10 million for last financial year. The expanded Capital...

03 Jul 2020

News

Covid ups and downs

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auBLANKET COVID-19 restrictions across the State are jeopardising jobs in regional Victoria, including Gannawarra shire, Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh believes.“Our local workers and business owners...

26 Jun 2020

News

Popular local Op Shop relocates

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auKERANG’S Bus Stop Recycle Shop, which recently marked its fifth birthday, has further cause for celebration as it settles into new, bright and spacious premises on Bendigo Road. Bus Stop president, Carol...

26 Jun 2020

News

Loddon CWA group fold

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auAN inability to fill key administrative posts has forced the Loddon Valley group of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) to draw the curtain on its long and proud history. The Loddon Valley group’s 1936...

26 Jun 2020

Sport

Warming winter Blues

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auFOOTBALL is on hold, but fundraising efforts for Kerang’s junior footy players are firing up as the winter chill bites. Firewood is the key, and lots of it, with the club having already taken delivery of...

26 Jun 2020

News

Rate increase of 1.5% approved by council

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auGANNAWARRA shire’s average rate increase for the 2020/2021 financial year is locked in at 1.5 per cent, with councillors voting not to impose the 2 per cent average rate rise permitted for that period by...

26 Jun 2020

News

Good bloke Stuart remembered

Stuart Joseph Bowman1/5/1933 - 15/5/2020KOONDROOK born and raised Stuart Bowman, known as Bowie, loved family, beer, mates and a laugh. He devoted lots of time to those passions, living to the age of 87, by which stage he and wife Kath had been...

26 Jun 2020

News

Creating employment opportunities

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auCREATING employment opportunities for community members who have lost work or recently had income significantly reduced is a key focus for Loddon and Gannawarra shires, with both municipalities keen to...

26 Jun 2020

News

Gannawarra first

ANDREW PALOCZIapaloczi@gannawarratimes. com. auKOONDROOK will be home to Gannawarra shire’s first ‘all abilities play space’ with the assistance of a $390,000 grant from Regional Development Victoria’s Regional Infrastructure Fund. Other such spaces...

19 Jun 2020