Farming, furry friends, fun and ferrets were on the agenda at Saturday’s Foster Show. Gate admission was up on 2024, with more than 3,000 people attending this year’s event, enjoying warm conditions and a spectacular array of competitions, delicious food and drink, and fun and games. Numbers

My heart will go on? The sun floats high overhead in a cloudless sky… a gentle breeze drifts in over Mt Oberon to the south and ripples across the sparkling waters of Corner Inlet as two fishermen slog through the knee deep mud of Foster Beach dragging their kayaks behind

Love and kisses in the Wren World You don’t have to go haring off into the bush to see really interesting things happening in the bird world. A while back I was watching the test cricket. Because nothing had happened for a couple of hours my attention wandered, and

The first cab off the ranks in our previews of the 2025 West Gippsland football and netball seasons are last year’s senior’s footy grand final winners, the ever-resilient Fish Creek Kangaroos. The Fish Creek Kangaroos will kick off the 2025 campaign by unfurling the senior premiership flag during

The Foster U15s are through to the finals after a rain interrupted match against Leongatha Town/Koonwarra LRSL which resulted in a win for Foster. LK were 5-82 and Foster 2-166. Pedlow opened for LK and made a tidy 33 runs before being caught by Gee at mid on. Lund

A misty morning did not deter attendees to Toora’s Pear Party last weekend. The annual event is held in the Toora Heritage Pear Orchard park on Mill Street, and seems to be going from strength to strength with as yet unconfirmed record numbers turning out for a fun day

Overnight storms did not deter owners of a healthy mix of classic and collector cars from turning out at the annual Fish Creek Show n Shine last weekend. It was still firm under foot, so with no chance of bogging down, everything from a split window Morris Minor to a