Kyabram had received 43.2mm of rain this month up to Monday morning.
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This is more than the monthly average of 36mm, with almost half the month remaining.
On November 4, 16.2mm was registered and 0.2mm on November 11. A further 7mm was recorded last Friday, 16mm over the weekend and 3.6mm on Monday.
The wettest November on record was 142mm in 1887, the first year official rainfall figures were kept.
Over 100mm was also recorded in 1949 (106mm), 1971 (104mm), 2008 (101mm) and 2010 (123mm).
There was no rainfall recorded in the Novembers of 1895 and 2019.
Kyabram has received 409.2mm so far in 2021, which is creeping up to the average of 440mm.
Rochester pushes back
Rochester is a town that won’t lie down.
It has suffered body blows that would knock out any lesser town, but has rebounded on the back a vigorous tourism push that is a credit to all concerned.
Many of its attractions and coming attractions are rather ironically highlighted at night on the former Murray Goulburn factory, which delivered the heaviest blow to the town when it closed its doors in 2018 after a workforce peaked at 200.
Its colourful nightly display is advertising the next stage of one of Rochester’s main tourist attractions, the third silo painting by Jimmy Dvate. The artwork is being eagerly anticipated and has created a guessing game as to what it will be.
Locals won’t have to wait long, as Dvate was expected to start weaving his magic paint brush as early as this week.
And anyone wishing to enter in another of the town’s drawcards, the Rochester Mural Festival in March next year, better be quick because applications close today (November 17).
The theme for the festival is ‘Paint Us A Song’.
Megan makes Cobram CFA history
History has been made at Cobram with a woman being appointed to the position of Lieutenant of the Cobram Fire Brigade.
Megan Klippel is the first female to hold the position in that brigade’s history.
Murray River bird trail
Ulupna Island has a new feathered friend on the Murray River Bird Trail.
A joint project from Shepparton’s Tank Art and Longwood’s Steve Tobin has created a kookaburra named Kenny to join three large and impressive cockatoos (one of which is pictured) named Ned, Rosie and Mathilde.
The imposing sculptures stand four metres tall.
Cobram is expected to join the bird trail soon and it is hoped more towns along the Murray get involved to encourage increased tourism to visit the area.
Trawool double murder
Tatura police arrested a man in 1917 who was later hanged for a double murder in Trawool near Seymour.
Arthur Oldring (also known as George Blunderfield) met Margaret Taylor in North Melbourne during time off from the Seymour military camp.
When he returned to camp Margaret followed him to Seymour with her 12-year-old daughter, Rose, to be near him.
She wanted him to leave the Army and marry her but he had had a chequered past and wanted to get some respect back by fighting on the front line in the war raging in Europe at the time.
They arranged to meet at the Trawool Bridge on November 11, 1917. Margaret and her daughter were never seen alive again.
A soldier found Rose’s battered body in a snag in the Goulburn River on November 18 and three days later her mother’s body was discovered, with her head believed to have been smashed by a tomahawk, which was found nearby.
On the discovery of the bodies Arthur fled the Army camp and found work in the Byrneside and Tatura areas for some time.
He was eventually arrested by police at Smalls Orchard in Tatura and charged, and later was found guilty of both murders. He was hanged on April 14, 1918, when it was reported he ‘‘suffered a horrific death on the gallows.’’
Information for this article supplied by Seymour and District Historical Society curator Dianne Davey.
Counterfeit $100 notes
Three $100 notes accepted by a business in Tocumwal have been found to be counterfeit.
The fakes were discovered when the business owners attempted to deposit the notes into their bank account.
Police are working with the business owners to try to identify where the notes came from.
Muto controversy continues
Former controversial City of Greater Shepparton councillor Milvan Muto has been fined $1000.
The 61-year-old appeared in Shepparton Magistrates’ Court last week to seek a sentence indication from Magistrate Peter Mithen over a drug find.
Police discovered the methamphetamine in 2019 after gaining a warrant to secure a hard drive from a security camera after a fire behind the Shepparton Hotel. Muto originally said he couldn’t remember the access number to the camera.
Muto accused his lawyer Manny Nicolosi of not listening to what he was saying and received a warning from the magistrate about staging a debate and criticising his counsel.
Big line-up at Deniliquin
Deniliquin’s Play on the Plains festival has some big names lined up for its second annual event next March.
Amy Shark and Spacey Jane, who are hot property in the Australian entertainment scene, have been booked to perform at the March 12 gig.
Destrends, Skeggs, Northeast Party House, Graace, Beddy Rays and The Rions are also on the card to perform at the show, which is being organised by the same team that produces the iconic Deni Ute Muster.