Jeff Evans with horse Kaboom. The Wistow man recently received an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Southern Country Show Association. - Read more.
Some of the world’s top modern musicians have tickled the ivories on Graeme Hollis’ Hammond B3 organ. - Read more.
A vision to create a local wellbeing centre for palliative and cancer patients has been given a boost with a Hills nurse winning a 2012/13 SA Nursing and Midwifery Premier’s Scholarship. - Read more.
The RAA wants learner drivers to spend more time behind the wheel before receiving their provisional license. - Read more.
Alex Raymond changed people’s lives through his daily life and has continued to do so after his death. - Read more.
The Adelaide Hills Council wants a regional approach to commuter parking to prevent towns such as Crafers and Aldgate from being turned into “giant carparks” during the business week. Elected members have directed staff to hold discussions with State and Federal authorities to create more park n rides. The park n ride at Crafers and the informal ...
A plan to take freight trains out of the Hills is “doomed” after funding in the Federal budget was instead set aside for fixing rail crossings in Adelaide, according to a State politician. Greens MLC Mark Parnell said the Federal Government’s plan, unveiled in the budget last week, to spend $443m on fixing freight train cross-overs ...
A plan to build a new 4km power line along a scenic Hills road and across private properties near Hahndorf has outraged local property owners. ETSA Utilities wants to construct the line as part of a $10m project to upgrade electricity supplies to about 16,000 homes in the region. It plans to use 40-year-old easements on 11 ...
Pickles the pet pig is missing, presumed stolen, from her family home near Kanmantoo. The grey miniature breed sow is also pregnant which is adding to the distress of her owners, the Franson family, who discovered her empty pen on Friday afternoon. Brian Franson said Pickles was the size of a Labrador dog and “extremely friendly”. “If you’ve ...
The State heritage-listed Morialta Barns property at Norton Summit is about to go on the market. Local Government Minister Russell Wortley has approved a request from the Adelaide Hills Council to revoke the community land classification on the council-owned property to allow private sale. No one objected to the land classification change when the proposal went to ...
Alex Raymond changed people’s lives through his daily life and has continued to do so after his death. The 18-year-old, who died from injuries sustained in a head-on crash near Wistow in March, touched the lives of many at Cornerstone College and through the Soul Factor Gospel Choir. With his “life of the party” and fun-loving nature, ...
If Jill Sanderson ever reaches the stage where she is unconscious and under medical care, she has left instructions for the boys choir Libera to be piped into her ears via her iPod. It’s a small thing in her own advanced care plan but it’s important to the Mt Barker Palliative Care Unit volunteer. Mrs Sanderson and ...
The RAA wants learner drivers to spend more time behind the wheel before receiving their provisional license. The motoring body has called for the number of required supervised driving hours to be increased from 75 to 120 before drivers are eligible for their P plates. The RAA’s senior manager of road safety, Wendy Bevan, said evidence showed that ...
Timed parking will be introduced this month on a Mt Barker road after traders petitioned the town’s council for the change to stop bus commuters taking up customer carparks. The six Dutton Road business owners called on the Mt Barker Council in a petition tabled at a meeting last week to apply a three-hour time limit ...
A vision to create a local wellbeing centre for palliative and cancer patients has been given a boost with a Hills nurse winning a 2012/13 SA Nursing and Midwifery Premier’s Scholarship. Palliative care clinical practice consultant Frances Watkins was recently named the recipient of a $12,000 scholarship to travel to the UK, Ireland and Canada to ...
