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Local MPs join the petition push

Two local Members of Parliament with shadow health portfolios have offered their collective support to The Leader’s petition for a new regional Barossa Hospital, which is ramping up in momentum. Member for Schubert, Mrs Ashton Hurn MP, Shadow...

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Mel Siri

12 Feb 2025

Community News

Giddy up! Horses returning to Tanunda Show

Horses are an integral part of country shows, and after a few years’ hiatus, they are sure to be a major drawcard for riders and the community at Tanunda Show next month. Preparations for the 2025 Tanunda Show are in full swing, as it prepares to...

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Mel Siri

07 Feb 2025

Community News

Students Vines and Wines success

Nuriootpa High School’s Vines and Wines program continues to make its mark, with students proudly launching their latest award-winning wines, now available for purchase. The program offers students hands-on experience in every stage of winemaking...

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Mel Siri

31 Jan 2025

Local Business

The flavours and friendliness of Vietnam, at Kapunda

It was a combination of circumstances that saw Maggie Truong and her husband Graham Bosankoe open Com Viet restaurant on Kapunda’s main street – a craving for Vietnamese food was at the top of that list. Having grown up in seaside Haiphong in...

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Mel Siri

29 Jan 2025

Community News

Freeling farmer wows again

It’s almost 12 months to the day that Freeling farmer, Harrison Schuster surprised the country with an enormous map of Australia complete with giant flag, tilled into the family farmland. Now he’s wowing the community again. Harry told The...

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Mel Siri

29 Jan 2025

Community News

Leading through positive action

Some leaders have big personalities that almost precede them into a room, they have a loud vibrancy that is equal parts electric and exhausting. Tali Pipe has none of those things – yet he is a natural-born leader. Tali’s is a calm, mature and...

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Mel Siri

22 Jan 2025

Community News

Greenock Park gets the green light

By Melissa Siri and Matt WebsterRudimentary facilities at Greenock Centenary Park will this year be improved by Light Regional Council, with budget funding for, ‘grandstand, canteen and shelter renewal’. The project was allocated $300,000 in the...

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Mel Siri

15 Jan 2025

Emergency Services

A firey start to 2025: Multiple fires across Barossa and surrounding areas

With a number of grass fires already requiring CFS response in the first week of 2025, residents are being reminded to have a bushfire plan ready, particularly in light of the current hot and dry summer. Regional Commander Matt Davis informed The...

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Mel Jaunay

08 Jan 2025

Community News

Fun and frivolity at Freeling Christmas Street Party

By Melissa SiriIt’s a rare sight to see streets packed with people at the small town of Freeling, but the streets came alive on Friday, December 13 for the Freeling Christmas Street Party. With the top part of town cordoned off to traffic, locals and...

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Mel Siri

18 Dec 2024

Free to Read

Barossa Vintage Festival

Program launch highlights Festival choices

By Melissa SiriThe unveiling of the 2025 Barossa Vintage Festival Program last week paid homage to long-held traditions while introducing some exciting new events to the line-up. With the Festival scheuled for April, an official program launch was...

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Mel Siri

18 Dec 2024

Barossa Leader

Barossa Park a Gather Round sell out

General Gather Round tickets for Barossa Park are among the ‘public allocation’ that was ‘exhausted’ on the AFL website last week, with access officially sold out. According to the AFL, more than 195,000 Gather Round Festival of Footy...

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Mel Siri

13 Dec 2024

Community News

Freeling welcomes back ‘Epic’ street party

By Melissa SiriThere’s a buzz in the town of Freeling at the moment, with a countdown to the much-awaited return of the Christmas Street Party, on Friday, December 13. The first street party to be held since 2019, there are about 40 stalls organised...

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Mel Siri

04 Dec 2024

Barossa Leader

From Bondi Rescue to Barossa Rex

GOswim at Barossa Aquatic Fitness (The Rex) has partnered with Bondi Rescue lifeguard Bruce ‘Hoppo’ Hopkins as part of the country’s largest learn to swim water safety campaign of the year. The ‘Float to Survive with GOswim’ initiative...

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Mel Siri

22 Nov 2024