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4 days ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsNorthern Grampians Shire Council will advocate for an alternative to the VNI West project. Councillor Murray Emerson moved a motion at council’s Monday meeting that ‘council does not support the State Government’s VNI West project in its current form’.
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4 days ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsHorsham hairdresser Heather Block has retired, after trimming and redefining her cutting and styling skills across five decades. Leaving school to start her career the week after she turned 15, Mrs Block said she had always wanted to be a hairdresser. “I finished the school year and worked over the January school holidays. They said if I didn’t like it, I could go back to school,” she said.
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1 week ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsNorton Estate winery’s Chris and Sam Spence are looking at an exciting future – they have their packaged home and business on the market, and are set to launch two new wines. One is a carefully planted 200-year-old cultivar from America, the other an incidental fire season-dedicated rosé. Mr Spence said this season was the first they have had grapes affected by smoke.
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1 week ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsCarman’s has outgrown its premises for a second time, moving its windscreen, towing and car rental services from Horsham’s Hamilton Street to Haven’s Hamilton Road. Beginning in 1953 at Ward Street, panel beater Ivan Carman bought his first tow truck in 1962. Business picked up after a survey of potential clients found the need for a 24-hour windscreen service – in the pre-laminate days of shattering glass – and the expanding business moved to Hamilton Street in 1966.
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1 week ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsGrain receival centres across the country could be equipped with new technology to grade grain more quickly and uniformly by harvest, after further commercial trials of an artificial intelligence system at Horsham and Minyip last week. Cropify co-founder and chief executive Anna Faulkner, who gave several on-site demonstrations using lentils at Shannon Bros and Wimpak with co-founder and chief operating officer Andrew Hannon, said the device had been met with positive reviews.
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1 week ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsHorsham business Crop Opti is giving Wimmera and Mallee growers fertiliser choices closer to home, and the positive response is seeing the business expand after its first full sowing season. Supplying just urea at its start, the business now has most starter fertilisers – monoammonium phosphate, MAP, and granuloc, as well as spreading fertilisers urea, super, and sulphate ammonia, fungicides, as well as house-made liquid fertilisers.
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2 weeks ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsVolunteer firefighters at Stawell, Horsham and Ararat will ‘go live’ as first responders for cardiac arrest incidents from May 29. Trained firefighters will be dispatched at the same time as paramedics as part of the Fire Medical Response, FMR, program. Stawell Urban Fire Brigade’s fifth lieutenant Joseph Stubberfield said the desire to assist the community motivated the brigade’s members to complete the program.
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2 weeks ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsHindmarsh Shire Council has adopted its draft Budget 2025-26, which includes roads, footpaths and tourism development, with a capital works expenditure of $7.033-million. Mayor Ron Ismay said the draft Budget had been developed to balance the retention of existing community service levels, maintenance and renewal of assets and new initiatives to improve the amenity and make Hindmarsh a better place to live.
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2 weeks ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsYarriambiack Shire Council’s draft Budget for the next financial year is comparatively ‘particularly constrained’, impacted by pressures of waste costs and the reliance on grants. Council chief executive Tammy Smith said 44 per cent of council’s revenue was obtained from grant funding. “Only 50 per cent of our funding is generated from rates and associated charges,” she said.
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2 weeks ago | 
theweeklyadvertiser.com.au | Bronwyn Hastings
By Bronwyn HastingsWest Wimmera Shire Council has endorsed its 2025-26 draft budget, with a community focus balanced with financial sustainability, critical infrastructure renewal, and core service delivery. The 2025-26 draft budget includes a capital works program of about $4.26-million.
