Last Sunday, a good crowd turned up to see the final Maryborough Motorcycle Club day of 2009 at the Alma Recreation Reserve.

Norma Brumby of the Maryborough Highland Society, has won the Maryborough District Ladies Bowling Association division of the state singles.

In the opening round of the competition last week, Norma defeated Jenny McHugh of Dunolly 25-11 after getting off to a blistering beginning.

Fond memories will come flooding back when Chris Alford heads to Maryborough for Monday’s $25,000 Central Goldfields Shire Maryborough Gold Cup.

The 2690 metre standing start event marks the 20th anniversary of the champion reinsman’s first win in the race, which came via Bronski Beat. Alford has gone on to win it three more times, with Windsor Royal (1995), Ari Vance (1996) and Tromos (2005), to equal the great Vin Knight as the most successful reinsman in Maryborough Cup history.

The decision on whether or not Australia’s parallel book importation laws will be scrapped has been postponed until late November.

The decision was expected to be made at this week’s Labor Party caucus meeting, however a motion was passed at the meeting opting to delay the decision until Tuesday, November 24, when Federal Cabinet has finalised its position on the contentious matter.

Water restrictions to be eased from Sunday.

Stage 4 water restrictions for Maryborough and district will be eased from Sunday.

Under new Stage 4e water restrictions, residents will be able to water their home gardens twice weekly for one hour on an “odds and evens” basis, according to house number.

Stage 4e water restrictions will come into effect from Sunday, November 1.

MKM won an exciting match against Laanecoorie Dunolly in A grade of the Maryborough and District Cricket Association on Saturday.

MKM batted first and opener Sam Bartlett again led the way with a great knock of 80.

Dunolly Blue thrashed Talbot Gold in division one of the Midlands Bowls Association on Saturday 77 shots to just 46.

The Melbourne Cup might be the race that stops a nation, but the previous day’s Maryborough Cup is the race that stops Victoria’s Goldfields.

Next Monday will see the running of the Central Goldfields Shire Maryborough Gold Cup for 2009.

The $25,000 feature is the headline act of the Maryborough Harness Racing Club’s annual two-day carnival, which this year again takes in a twilight Sunday program.

A Maryborough woman is in a critical but stable condition in Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital following a single-vehicle accident near Craigie on Sunday morning.

The blue Ford station wagon the 35-year-old woman was driving, carrying a male passenger in the front seat and a two-month-old infant travelling in a baby capsule in the back seat, left the Majorca Road and skidded in loose gravel, before the woman over-corrected, lost control and the car rolled up to six times.