LETTER: Kids Helpline provides mental health support for youths
Tracy Adams, yourtown chief executive officer
MENTAL Health Month (October 2019) is a compelling time to raise awareness around the number of mental health related...
LETTER: Government committed to health
By Greg Hunt, Federal Health Minister
OCTOBER 1 is the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
It is yet another strong reminder to all Australian women...
LETTER: Wattle Range mayor responds to ratepayer criticism
Des Noll, Wattle Range Mayor
I REFER to a recent letter to the editor that was published in the Border Watch on Tuesday, September 24...
OPINION: Decades of friendship celebrated with cruise
A LITTLE girl with pig tails leant her stomach on the pipe fence flanking the Lucindale Area School oval and doing a somersault, started...
OPINION: Elected members giver Grant an alternative leadership voice
IT is rare for a council to complete the so-called "backflip" and change its stand on a particular community issue.
Sometimes it will almost arrogantly...
LETTER: ‘Lock the gate’ fundraising motives queried
By Anthony Maney, Mount Gambier
ACCORDING to Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission, Lock the Gate Alliance Ltd lodged its financial report and Annual...
LETTER: ‘Global warming’ not council’s role
Maree Thompson, Mount Gambier
I HAVE to take issue with the letter in Wednesday's edition of The Border Watch from Ralph Meznar regarding Mount Gambier...
OPINION: City Council gets it right on fossil fuel vote
MOUNT Gambier City Council made the correct decision last week when it voted not to condemn new conventional gas and oil exploration licences in...
OPINION: Festival puts Limestone Coast on map for thousands of music fans
HAVE you got a sleeping bag, toothbrush, towel and a tent organised?
That's about all you need to roll into Lucindale for Australia's 2019 Triple...
OPINION: Push for hub transparency praised
WHEN Steve Perryman won the mayoral election from John Allen following the death of mayor Don McDonnell in September 2002, it was regarded as...
OPINION: Doubts raised over ‘drier’ season as winter arrives
A SODDEN mat of multi-colour leaves lay across the grass like old wet carpet.
Officially, it is day four of winter and rioting tree tops...
LETTER: Reconciliation reflection
Father Chris Riley, CEO and Founder at Youth Off The Streets
THIS year's National Reconciliation Week will run from May 27 to June 3.
Every year...