Guitar festival takes a road trip
The Adelaide Guitar Festival hit the road last week, visiting Helping Hand aged care homes at Jamestown and Clare, where residents enjoyed a special...
Skate park takes shape
The much anticipated design for the proposed Eudunda Skate Park has been released.
The site for the skate park will be within the Eudunda Recreation...
Silo project’s search for funds
Balaklava Area Committee chairperson Kevyna Gardner said that the Silo Project Sub Committee is investigating means of raising $10,000 needed for the pre-paint engineering...
Funding for grassroots efforts
The regeneration of an Indigenous ochre quarry, removal of feral olive trees along the Riesling Trail and the rehabilitation of Bundaleer Creek are all...
Lally family celebrates 175 years
When Gerald Lally’s great great grandparents Michael and Bridget Lally arrived in the Mid North in 1847, Balaklava was not yet an established town.
They...
Door slams on last branch standing
The announcement of the closure of Peterborough’s BankSA branch – the town’s last remaining bank – is a “rotten blow” to the community, according...
Cody wins state ambassador award
Twenty-year-old Cody Jones of Leighton has been named the 2022 State Young Rural Ambassador.
Representing the Northern Agricultural Shows Association, and Clare Show, Cody was...
Fauna park farewelled
A fauna park will no longer be operated at the Clare Caravan Park site after the Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council voted to remove...
Music to our ears
Venues across Balaklava are rolling out the red carpet as the town gears up to host the annual Eisteddfod this August.
Last year, an outbreak...
Mid North high schools in pilot program
A mental health practitioner will be hired to work at Balaklava and Clare high schools as part of a new state government pilot program...