After three straight victories, Maryborough copped a hiding at the hands of an extremely competent Eaglehawk side on Saturday at Princes Park.

“Time dims the memory of ordinary events, but not the memory of great events.

“In a nation’s history great events - whether in peace or war - live in our memories regardless of time.

“They are deemed great, not necessarily because of what they achieve or whether they were victories or successes.

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The annual Under 14 Basketball State Championships were held over three days in Bendigo and the Maryborough boy’s team acquitted itself well at the event.

A Maryborough woman has died after returning to her burning unit to save her pet dog.

The black labrador cross, called Beau, survived the blaze and was picked up and taken to the shire pound.

Thirty-eight-year-old Karen Herrin alerted a neighbour to the fire at midnight on Tuesday night, asking her to call 000.

The pair then stood outside the burning Gladstone Street unit, before the woman re-entered looking for the dog.

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The Maryborough Magpies made it a hat-trick of victories for the start of the 2010 Bendigo Bank Bendigo Football League on Saturday with an impressive 23.15 (153) to 15.10 (100) win over Strathfieldsaye Storm.

There was action aplenty for the good crowd that turned out at Princes Park under lights but unfortunately at times the game was marred by over-umpiring and many majors came from free kicks.

A Mildura man was airlifted to the Royal Alfred Hospital in Melbourne after being hit in the face with a billiard cue in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The 39-year-old man was allegedly struck to the side of the head as he walked along Wills Street by another man wielding half a billiard cue at approximately 2 am.

The man was initially treated at the Maryborough Hospital for lacerations to his ear, but after his condition worsened, the air ambulance was summoned to transport the man to the Royal Alfred Hospital.

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Talk about comebacks! Newcomer to Maryborough, Peter Jackson, certainly has a tale to tell.

Peter, a karate exponent, finished second in the Japanese Karate Association event in Adelaide in 1986.

A month later, tragedy struck when he was in a tragic work accident in Melbourne.

Peter was working in a printing company and he was lifting a heavy chase (forme) when he broke a vertebrae in his spine (lower back).