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06 Feb 2025

Cricket

Super support for Strathalbyn Strikers

The Strathalbyn Strikers Football Club is heading into the 2025 season with bumper numbers and an expectation that its A Grade men team will improve on its sixth-place finish in 2024. Club President Nick Brook said numbers were already “looking...

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06 Feb 2025

Sport

Strath basketballers up the ante for new stadium

The Strathalbyn Basketball Association is upping the ante with its push for a new multi-court stadium in the town. In recent weeks association members have been meeting with local members, Basketball SA officials, Shadow Federal Finance Minister...

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06 Feb 2025

Langhorne Creek

Former Creek pilot loops to a new world record

Former Langhorne Creek pilot Dave Scutchings APM has celebrated his best Australia Day yet by setting, with son Max, a world record for the most loops done in a glider. As previously reported in The Southern Argus, Superintendent Scutchings gave...

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30 Jan 2025

Community News

Four of Macclesfield’s best honoured with awards

Four Macclesfield RSL Sub-Branch members were honoured with Certificates of Achievements at Sunday’s Australia Day event in the town. John ‘Neil’ Wright, Nat Lemar, and joint nominees Bev and Clyde Slack were all bestowed the honour, accepting...

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30 Jan 2025

A lifetime of service lands Brian an OAM

Strathalbyn’s Brian Knill cannot remember a time in his 84 years that he hasn’t had a passion for conservation and the environment. It is this passion that has seen Mr Knill awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in this year’s...

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30 Jan 2025

Strathalbyn scouts make memories

Seven Strathalbyn scouts and three leaders arrived home recently from one of the biggest celebrations on the scouting calendar – the Australian Jamboree. The Jamboree, returning for the first time since the pandemic, attracted more than 10,000...

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New chapter for garden fundraisers

In 2010, Cynthia and Graeme Nicholson bought 2.5 acres of barren land on Marchant Road at Strathalbyn. Little did they know then that the purchase and subsequent transformation of their Sgorra Bhreac Garden would help so many people and charities...

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Yesterday’s Power Rally feels the heat

“They did actually cancel the last run because it was too hot, but otherwise, they had excellent numbers on there, and the bus driver said it was probably the most he had ever taken to the Oscar W

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Langhorne Creek

Creek pilot takes aim at world record

A former Langhorne Creek resident and now a SA Police Superintendent will attempt to set a world gliding record on Australia Day. Superintendent Dave Scutchings APM, along with son Max, has given himself the challenge to undertake 50 loops in...

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Busy volunteer awarded Young Citizen of the Year

A Strathalbyn teenager has been awarded Young Citizen of the Year for the town and its surrounding areas, following her busy commitment to several volunteer causes. Natasha Osmond took out the award for her involvement in the arts, her commitment to...

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16 Jan 2025

Community News

Ducks causing issues for Hills sprout farmer

While you may have seen ducks around town, spare a thought for Eastbrook Farms at Mount Barker where the birds have taken a particular liking to brussel sprouts. The farm features brussel sprouts, kalettes, hay, and cattle, but the sprouts are their...

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16 Jan 2025

Goolwa

No stopping Goolwa and Surrounds’ Active Citizen

Mount Compass local Corey Anderson might be non-verbal and live with cerebral palsy, aplastic anemia and graft versus host disease, but that doesn’t stop the 38-year-old contributing to the local community. Mr Anderson’s energy to get things...

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