Australia
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Cooper to represent Australia
Local basketballer Cooper Duff-Tytler has been selected to represent Australia at the U17 Asian Championships in Qatar. Cooper extends the recent success of local basketball, with Woodend producing a number of junior players that have achieved state representation, but he is the first to be selected to represent Australia. Cooper started his journey in the…
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Tributes flow for ‘Deano’
Shockwaves have reverberated around the cricketing world and elsewhere with the sudden untimely death of Romsey resident Dean Jones, aged 59, in India on Thursday. Tributes have poured in after news spread of Jones’ death in Mumbai, where he was commentating on the Indian Premier League. He is believed to have suffered a major heart…
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Valuer-General calls Woodend home
Woodend residents could be forgiven for taking pride in the knowledge that Victoria’s Valuer-General also chose the area to call home. Robert Marsh has lived in the district with his family – wife Victoria and daughters Lucy and Sophie – since the late 1990s, originally on a farmlet just out of town but now in…
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Oz Day gong for Ken
Citizen of the Year for Mount Alexander Shire, Ken Maddern has not let having chronic fatigue stand in his way. Instead, the passionate local volunteer, sports administrator and junior sports promoter has done more to benefit his local community than many achieve in a lifetime. It’s a fact that on Saturday saw Ken named the…