Surprise, surprise …

Well surprise, surprise, we now have a new Mayor. Les McPhee has been given the Mayoral Robes and we will have a new 4 year Council term starting off with this change. Along with this is the appointment of an interim CEO, David Leahy, who replaces the old CEO Dennis...

Elections are over

Well the Council elections are over and the results are in. It would seem that the community have decided that the Bridge was an “overarching” issue after all and that we now have three new Councillors, two who definitely oppose the construction of bridge...

Well I’ll be buggered….

Well it nearly happened! Today we had a bridge in crisis. Good old faithful was opened and wouldn’t close again and because of this the Speewa Punt was getting a work out, along with the bridge at Nyah. So it seemed we might have been in for a new bridge earlier...

the saga continues….

Well at last nights Guardian Election Forum there was a lot of noise about the bridge coming from a vocal minority as usual. Seems everyone wants a bridge somewhere else except in Swan Hill. Can’t understand it. There’s a reason Swan Hill has gone...

The bridge debate

As one of the platforms of a group of candidates, the position of the proposed new Bridge seems to still be high on the agenda. What I find hard to understand is why our community isn’t as vocal as other townships along the river. There’s a saying...