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Fleeing for their lives

Echuca family watched in horror as a former twin towns’ resident filmed herself fleeing for her life, surrounded by fire during the catastrophic NSW bushfires. Subscribe to see the video and full article below...

Riverine Herald
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Mayor Weston elected for another term

CAMPASPE Shire Council mayor Adrian Weston will stay at the helm for another term after being re-elected on Tuesday. At the statutory meeting councillors re-elected Cr Weston for a fourth term and elected Cr Vicki Neele as deputy mayor, both for...

Lachlan Durling
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Next steps for Echuca headspace as group stops in town

MURRAY PHN and headspace National dropped into Echuca yesterday to meet with local health services, schools and colleges, primary health care providers and other interested community organisations as planning continues for the new Echuca headspace...

Charmayne Allison
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Work experience opportunity for Echuca job seekers with disability

ECHUCA employers will be able to connect with job seekers with a disability thanks to an obligation-free work experience day run by the Australian Government.

Charmayne Allison
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District RFS firefighters join the fight

TWO Moama district firefighters are among the throng of emergency services personnel tasked with combating the ‘Catastrophic Tuesday’ fire conditions in parts of NSW. Already in the Grafton area are RFS firefighters Kevin Barnes...

Ivy Jensen
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Bamawm Extension CFA captain leads fire strike team

GEORGE Calleja is no stranger to bushfire conditions. Serving as the Bamawm Extension Fire Brigade Captain, the lively identity continues to lead the 32-member 2092 strike team, made up of volunteers from Echuca, Bamawm Extension and Rushworth.

Ivy Jensen
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Echuca CFA firefighters to replace NSW strike teams

ANOTHER contingent of Echuca district CFA volunteer firefighters are heading north to fight the catastrophic fires in NSW. The volunteers from around Echuca, Rushworth and Loddon departed for Port Macquarie yesterday, November 14, and are expected...

Ivy Jensen
The Lead

The Lead with Charmayne Allison - November 14

Tonight on The Lead with Charmayne Allison, Three Rivers Festival is returning to Echuca-Moama for its sixth year of touch football, music, art and Aboriginal culture. For more infomation, vist the full story: Three Rivers Festival back for its...

Riverine Herald
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Three injured as car rolls on Cobb Hwy at Moama

THREE people have been injured in a car crash on the Cobb Highway on the northern outskirts of Moama. Police, ambulance and fire brigade units attended. The highway is not blocked to traffic in either direction. More to come

Riverine Herald
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Major collision at Curr Road intersection

POLICE have confirmed two vehicles are involved in a collision at the corners of Curr Road and Graham Road. Graham Road is currently closed to traffic between Scobie Road and Curr Road, and police are urging motorists to avoid the area. Ambulance...

Holly Tregenza
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Christmas by Candlelight calls for community singers

‘TIS the season to be carolling. And whether you’re a seasoned singer or a casual crooner, Echuca-Moama’s Christmas by Candlelight needs you.

Charmayne Allison
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St Mary’s Echuca holds parish expo to celebrate work in community

DID you know 25 ministry groups are run out of St Mary’s Echuca? That’s 25 bands of tireless volunteers visiting the sick, caring for the elderly, running soup kitchens and welcoming refugees.

Charmayne Allison
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Three Rivers Festival back for its sixth year

ECHUCA-MOAMA is the site where three rivers – the Dungala, Yakoa and Gaiyila – meet. Three Rivers Festival symbolises this intersection.

Charmayne Allison
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The power behind the pulpit: Christine Sebire

FOR Echuca’s Catholic priest, Father Des Welladsen, support in running St Mary’s is definitely all about a partner, not a spouse. And a platonic partnership at that; a working arrangement to keep the church and its congregation moving forward...

Ari Balle-Bowness
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The power behind the pulpit: Roslyn McAllan

ROSLYN McAllan is selfdeprecating, to the point of modesty, when asked to talk about her role within the church run by her pastor husband David. Waving it off with a simple “I help here and there”. It is not even close as a description of the...

Ari Balle-Bowness
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The power behind the pulpit: Sarah Hemmings

IT WASN’T exactly childhood sweethearts, but Sarah and George Hemmings confess they did meet at school. Sitting beside each other for their first class at Ridley’s College. A place, Sarah laughed, that is perhaps better known in the divinity...

Ari Balle-Bowness
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The power behind the pulpit: Robert Lees

WHEN Robert is not helping fix the church from its aPoocalyptic pigeon problem and cracks in the walls, he’s out supporting the lay preachers of the land. A carpenter and joiner by trade, Robert Lees is the right-hand man of Echuca Moama’s...

Ari Balle-Bowness
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The power behind the pulpit: Sage Wiltshire

DO UNTO others as you would have them do to you. It’s as biblically a simple mantra as you could find – and one with which we are all familiar. And, coincidentally, one which makes sense. A lot of sense. But does the message play out in life? In...

Ari Balle-Bowness

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Shepparton boxer Dwight Ritchie dies aged 27 in training accident

Shepparton’s sporting community is in shock after boxer Dwight Ritchie died tragically on Saturday in a freak training injury. The 27-year-old was sparring with WBA Oceania middleweight champion Michael Zerafa in Melbourne, when he was struck with...

Alex Mitchell
Riverine Herald

Echuca man arrested over wild car chase through five towns

A CAR ran headfirst into another vehicle in Echuca while allegedly driving at dangerous speeds, at times on the wrong side of the road while fleeing from police through five towns yesterday. Police from nine towns were involved in trying to corner...

Ivy Jensen
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Major collision at Curr Road intersection

POLICE have confirmed two vehicles are involved in a collision at the corners of Curr Road and Graham Road. Graham Road is currently closed to traffic between Scobie Road and Curr Road, and police are urging motorists to avoid the area. Ambulance...

Holly Tregenza
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Echuca police on wild chase as serial car thief goes on the run

POLICE are hunting a man who led them on a wild chase through Kanyapella, Tongala, Echuca and Elmore this morning. Detective Senior Constable Peter Colliver of Echuca criminal investigation unit said police were looking for man who had warrants out...

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