Local News
10 Mar 10 | Lock Area School will host a Crazy Hair Day on Thursday, March 18, where students have been asked to pay a gold coin donation to attend school with crazy or coloured hair and casual clothes.
10 Mar 10 | Wet weather failed to dampen spirits at the Cowell Crab Festival on Sunday.
10 Mar 10 | Cowell Ute Club will host its first Cowell Ute Muster next month, at the historic Cowell rodeo grounds on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
10 Mar 10 | Around 25 men from Cowell attended the Men in Communities program early this month.
10 Mar 10 | Farmers in the Cleve Hills have registered as much as 120mm of rain over two days following the spate of storms that washed across Eyre Peninsula on Saturday and Sunday.
25 Feb 10 | A series of nine stone walls has been completed at each of the town entrances to Kimba.
25 Feb 10 | Plans will be finalised this week for the Cowell community’s two-day crab festival on the March long weekend.
25 Feb 10 | Cowell Ute Club will host its first Cowell Ute Muster next month, at the historic Cowell rodeo grounds on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
25 Feb 10 | Supporting and buying Australian-made products is the theme for the Women in Agriculture and Business - Eyre Peninsula regional conference to be held in Kimba on March 17, 2010.
25 Feb 10 | In a community rocked by three local road deaths in as many years, the Cleve and District Road Safety Group is stepping up efforts to educate drivers and save lives.
18 Feb 10 | Isolated storms hit Mangalo on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, leaving fires, floods and damaged buildings in their wake.
18 Feb 10 | Members of the Cowell Art Group have been getting inspired to paint, in readiness for upcoming annual art exhibtion.
18 Feb 10 | Former Darke Peak man Peter Gerloff, 44, died in a single vehicle rollover near Cleve on Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
18 Feb 10 | Centuries-old red gum remnants around the Polda area on the West Coast are some of Eyre Peninsula’s most significant trees, according to a local native vegetation expert, who is concerned the dropping water table is pushing the population toward extinction.
18 Feb 10 | More than 300 people attended the Rudall Centenary Celebration at the weekend, where locals and former residents celebrated 100 years of settlement in the Hundreds of Rudall and Smeaton.
18 Feb 10 | Cleve Uniting Church volunteers hosted Pancake Day at the Cleve Centenary Park on Shrove Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
10 Feb 10 | Local farmers met with State Government agencies in Lock on Friday to discuss falling water levels at the Polda Basin.
10 Feb 10 | Mangalo farmers Mark and Andrea Hannemann are trialing an innovative water harvesting project this month in an effort to secure the long-term security of their property.
14 Jan 10 | Wilbur Klein hits the campaign trail again this year after being nominated by the Nationals for the State seat of Flinders.
14 Jan 10 | Tourism numbers are on the rise across Eyre Peninsula, despite the holiday heatwave sending some travellers home early.