30 Sep 09 | BENDIGO Traders Association president Neil Athorn will step down as president of the group at its annual meeting, later this month.
30 Sep 09 | THE countdown is on to the 2009 Jayco Bendigo Cup. With Bendigo's great race brought forward to October 28 this year, it is now only 27 days until the Bendigo Jockey Club's day of days explodes from the barriers.
30 Sep 09 | BENDIGO residents are rubbish when it comes to recycling.
30 Sep 09 | A BENDIGO aged care centre will receive more than $17 million to update facilities built in the 1960s.
Mercy Health will redevelop the Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Golden Square over the next five years.
30 Sep 09 | STRATHDALE’S Ben Bergmeier will be vying for a national bodybuilding title this weekend.
Bergmeier, 20, has begun a five-week series of shows with consecutive wins at Victorian championships.
First place in the Mr Teenage division at last Sunday’s showdown earned a place in this weekend’s International Natural Bodybuilding Association national titles.
30 Sep 09 | Australia has been told not to mourn but to honour the 741 police officers killed in the line of duty since 1803.
30 Sep 09 | MARYBOROUGH honey producer Capilano Honey has been caught up in the sticky business of the global financial crisis.
30 Sep 09 | BENDIGO’S own world champion in BMX racing, Jaclyn Wilson-Thompson was in hot form in the weekend’s start to the BMX National Tour raced on the Ashmore track on the Gold Coast.
Competing in the elite women’s class, Wilson-Thompson raced superbly to be in front on the final lap.
Mermaid Waters-based Cherie Simpson powered to victory after Wilson-Thompson crashed just before the line.
30 Sep 09 | MIND-BLOWING fashions created from farmyard junk will turn heads at the Elmore Field Days next week.
30 Sep 09 | CLASSY half-forward Matt O’Toole took out Golden Square’s best and fairest award on Friday night.
O’Toole capped a superb season by polling 44 votes, four clear of speedy on-baller Mark Lloyd. Nathan Bell was third on 33.
O’Toole was one of the Bulldogs’ best in their grand final win over South Bendigo and he was named on a half-forward flank in The Advertiser Team of the Year.
30 Sep 09 | A PARTY pill that has already put at least one teenager in hospital is readily available in Bendigo.
30 Sep 09 | GOLFING ace Lucas Herbert is the third quarterly winner in the Bendigo Sportsmen’s Association Junior Sports of the Year award.
Herbert, 13, joins athletes Brigette Dillon and Sophie Taylor, and cyclist Braeden Dean in the running for the award, which is proudly sponsored by Coca-Cola.
30 Sep 09 | IT’S a dubious honour, but a White Hills teenager has been told he now holds the record for the shortest length of time to show “absolute stupidity”.
30 Sep 09 | OFFICERS from across the region marched in memory of fallen colleagues before a service at the Bendigo Town Hall yesterday.
30 Sep 09 | THE venues that pour our drinks, and the police who clean up the mess left behind by those who over indulge, have joined forces in Castlemaine.
30 Sep 09 | A NEW generation of armoured vehicles developed in Bendigo promises to give troops better protection from deadly improvised explosive devices, roadside bombs and ambushes.
30 Sep 09 | OUTGOING Essendon managing director Peter Jackson believes the next two years for the Bendigo Bank Bombers are make or break for the VFL club.
Essendon and Bendigo have agreed to a new two-year alignment, extending a partnership that began in 2003 after being born from the Bendigo Diggers, and ensuring Bendigo’s involvement in the VFL until at least 2011.
29 Sep 09 | HEAVY spring rain has pushed Coliban Water's storages to their highest levels since November 2007.
29 Sep 09 | THE City of Greater Bendigo will celebrate 150 years of local government in Heathcote next Tuesday.
29 Sep 09 | BENDIGO could become home to Victoria’s first regional Ronald McDonald House.
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