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In a major blow to Karlene Maywald's re-election hopes, Family First Chaffey candidate Jack Papageorgiou will direct his preferences to Liberal hopeful Tim Whetstone on March 20.
More than 800 people gathered near Barmera on Friday to farewell Aboriginal singer Ruby Hunter, who died last month.
Riverland towns should unite to develop a Sports Hall of Fame as a tourist attraction according to Independent MLC David Winderlich.
Berri sisters Karri and Merinda McMahon will both represent South Australia next month.
Renmark toddler David Van Amstel is a happy little boy today, but as a baby it was a different story.
Renmark's Nicole Seekamp turned heads at the recent Australian under 20 women’s basketball championships in Gawler.
After hours hospital services will return to Renmark if the Liberal party comes to power at the March 20 state election.
A Loxton teenager was airlifted to hospital in Adelaide after he was thrown from a car during a rollover near Taldra early Sunday morning.
A Glossop woman who allegedly fled the scene of a Winkie stobie pole vehicle crash has been found.
Hopes of a 'great debate' between Chaffey’s six election hopefuls are fading fast, with voters heading to the polling booths in just 10 days.
10/Mar/10 KARLENE MAYWALD's call for compensation to irrigators whose licences will be reduced as a result of the risk assignment determined by the new Murray Darling Basin Authority is total hypocrisy.
10/Mar/10 IF YOU'RE a rusted-on political animal, there’s not much point reading on, because all a political animal seeks is power for the party.
10/Mar/10 I AM delighted to see the dunny block in Berri finally open for business.
10/Mar/10 THE BUREAU of Meteorology has got a lot to answer for following the severe thunderstorm that swept through parts of the Riverland on Sunday afternoon.
10/Mar/10 THINK BACK over three years. Growers were cut back to 13 per cent use of their water, and at this moment it is still only 55 per cent.
10/Mar/10 I WAS told last week that in Mildura gardeners are allowed to use their automatic pop-up garden sprinklers twice weekly.
10/Mar/10 THESE ARE the reflections - political and social comment – on the chance meeting of two very old Renmark West residents (one 95 and the other 92).
10/Mar/10 WHAT HAS become very clear to us all in the Riverland is that no matter which major party is in power South Australians are going to have to fight for every drop of water we need.
5/Mar/10 School teachers are best positioned to pass judgement on the Federal Government's new national teaching curriculum.
5/Mar/10 I FIND Tim Whetstone's advertisement, 'My plan for Chaffey’, interesting and would like him to clarify some points on ‘more water’ for the area.
5/Mar/10 MALCOLM HILL (The Murray Pioneer, 2/3/2010) paints a picture that would have us all believe that our current water predicament and all associated circumstances are due to Labor governments.
5/Mar/10 AT THE recent Waikerie town hall public meeting, Karlene Maywald said election promises are mainly funded by increasing taxes/levies, or reducing services.
5/Mar/10 I WOULD like to extend a big thank you to The Murray Pioneer and ABC Riverland for the generous coverage provided in advance of the Paringa CFS Brigade's bushfire preparedness presentation night.
5/Mar/10 DESPITE INFLOWS to the southern Murray basin - 2730 gigalitres (GL) – being the highest in four years, the pumping of River Murray water to Adelaide metropolitan reservoirs was cut in half because of good rainfall in the Adelaide Hills this year, and the Darling River in flood for the first time in eight years, Riverland irrigators are only at 55 per cent of their high security allocations.
5/Mar/10 IT IS pretty obvious from the media activity over the past few weeks that we have another long weekend upon us.
5/Mar/10 AS A former resident of Broken Hill I watched with interest the construction of the Menindee scheme which commenced in June 1949.
5/Mar/10 LAST WEEK Liberal Party politician Stephen Wade advised on talkback radio that the Liberals think it's good policy to utilize unoccupied public housing in country towns to accommodate post release prisoners from Adelaide.
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