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By VINNIE RODI ‘PEOPLE power’ prevailed for Irymple residents when Mildura Rural City Councillors voted on Tuesday night to refuse a planning permit for construction of an advertising billboard on the corner of Fifteenth Street and Karadoc Avenue. The application, made by Melbourne-based company Total Outdoor Media, proposed to construct a 12.66 metre wide and six metre high major promotion sign in the area. It was the intent of Total Outdoor Media to use the sign to advertise local business interests and potentially attract larger clients, like the Transport Accident Commission, to utilise the site. Irymple residents, led by...

By VINNIE RODI A PROPOSAL to re-establish a concrete reprocessing and materials recycling operation in Koorlong has been refused by Mildura Rural City Councillors after 19 objections were lodged by nearby residents. The site, located two kilometres from the Koorlong township on the Cowra Avenue Extension, is owned by Lower Murray Water (LMW) and is currently utilised by Water Excavations Pty Ltd. Water Excavations had previously operated a similar materials recycling, stockpiling and waste reprocessing site at the LMW-owned land, securing a 12-month permit from Council in 2015. That application did not receive any objections due to the short-term...

AWARD AFTER AWARD FOR BOTANICAL WATER: Koorlong beverage-maker, AquaBotanical has just been awarded Best Aqua Drink and Best Technology Innovation for their botanical water. This is the fourth year in a row that the company has been acknowledged on the world stage for their innovative product. The brains behind the company success, Dr Bruce Kambouris is pictured with one of his award-winning bottles of water. By JOHN DOOLEY WHEN it comes to competing on the world stage, it seems AquaBotanical is an ever-enduring star, with the local beverage-maker picking up two more prestigious accolades at the year’s Zenith’s InnoBev...