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Church doors close as congregations dwindle

ONE Anglican church on Yorke Peninsula is preparing to close its doors, while another faces an uncertain future. The churches at Curramulka and Maitland each have just one remaining parishioner — both elderly and struggling to maintain the ageing...

Michelle Daw

11 Jun 2025

News

From tennis whites to CFS yellows

PETER Pole vividly remembers his first call-out as a Country Fire Service volunteer, more than three decades ago. “I was playing tennis at Port Germein, which was where I grew up, and we heard that a fire had broken out near Port Pirie,” he...

Michelle Daw

11 Jun 2025

News

Algal bloom crisis: Testing flagged as key to forecasting blooms

SOUTH Australian Liberal MPs are seeking an independent investigation into the response to the toxic algal bloom in the state’s marine waters, following the latest detection in the Coorong. Opposition environment spokesperson, Finnis MP David...

Michelle Daw

11 Jun 2025

News

WELCOME DROPS, LONG ROAD AHEAD

Rain, rain come again MORE than welcome but not enough — that was the general response to much-anticipated showers that fell over the long weekend on Yorke Peninsula. Total rainfall recorded over the past seven days varied between 11.8 millilitres...

Michelle Daw

11 Jun 2025

Editorial

Act now to protect our seas

THE images were heartbreaking — slide after slide of lifeless marine creatures, cast up on beaches after suffering cruel deaths from suffocation and poisoning. Concerned locals, fishers, conservationists and ecologists gathered at Marion Bay...

Michelle Daw

03 Jun 2025

News

Algal bloom threatens entire marine habitats

ENTIRE marine habitats around Yorke Peninsula could be destroyed by the current algal bloom, a local marine conservationist has warned. Speaking at a community forum in Marion Bay on Sunday, June 1, Andy Cameron of Foul Bay said the full extent of...

Michelle Daw

03 Jun 2025