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Switching their emerald green jerseys to purple and black, Sale United's best junior players represented the Latrobe Valley Soccer League in the 2022 Country League Football Association Junior Championships over the Queen's Birthday long weekend.

Gippsland Grammar wrote the names Anthony Smith, Billy Osborne, Cameron Rule and Lindsay Hamilton in the history books following the school's most successful Nationals campaign to date.

Thanks to COVID, all of us have struggled in one way or another, mentally, physically or financially. For many of those who were hit hard financially by the pandemic, the only way to ensure their children would have a gift to open on Christmas Day was by using layby. On the last Saturday of November 2021, almost exactly one month until Christmas, Sale's own Secret Santa made her way down Raymond Street, stopping into Toyworld Sale and Toys Galore & More. Kerryn, better known as 'Secret Santa', approached the counters at Toyworld Sale and Toys Galore & More with a generous gesture of good faith that would change Christmas for many unsuspecting families.

For the first time, the Briagolong Mechanics' Institute committee hosts 'History at the Hall' on Sunday, June 19 from 1.30pm.'History at the Hall' offers the Wellington Shire community the opportunity to immerse themselves in local history as the Briagolong Mechanics' Institute committee opens the doors to one of the oldest standing buildings in the region.

Winter. Some love it, some hate it, and in the chilly, wet, windy months from June through August, not a day goes by when you don't say the two words, 'it's' and 'cold'. The East Gippsland Winter Festival started on Saturday, with the commencement of the F/LAMP Exhibition marking the first of many collaborative events in Gippsland's east this winter.

Gippsland Grammar's rowing team are drying their paddles and boarding a plane, first stop the UK, second stop Italy.

North Gippsland Football-Netball League, East Gippsland Football-Netball League, Sale Netball Association and the Gippsland League were among the 64 teams competing in Netball Victoria's Eastern Association Championships Competition in Traralgon last Sunday.

Not even severe winds and bitterly cold temperatures could stop Sale United in Latrobe Valley Soccer League action on Sunday.

In 2019, Cameron Churchill and Ross Bennell recognised the limited opportunity for the Sale and surrounding community to play competitive basketball that would cater to those with all different abilities. So, the two men in their 20s created their own league, The Little Apples Basketball League. Turnbull Toyota and Morelli's Furniture and Bed went head to head on Wednesday night in the Little Apples Basketball League Season 6 grand final.

Maffra Football-Netball Club is celebrating after Wellington Shire Council Mayor Ian Bye officially opened the new, modern netball facilities at Maffra Recreation Reserve on Monday.

This season is turning out to be the year for women’s football, with the Youth Girls Female Football League expanding to a 14-team competition, a significant upsurge from the four-team league that started in 2012.

In partnership with Wildfighter Boxing, The Wellington Shire's Middle of Everywhere campaign is bringing a star-studded event to Sale.