Almanac Life: In Memory of the Fallen

April 21, 2026 by 4 Comments

Sheralee Menz has a wonderful appreciation and understanding of her local community. Today she shares her life’s journey to better and more fully understand the words above the gates to a country football ground – ‘In Memory of the Fallen’. (Achingly beautiful – Ed.)

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Almanac (Barossa) Life: RITV on Assignment at the 2025 Vintage Festival

May 7, 2025 by 2 Comments

It’s a tough gig when you take on the assignment to cover the 2025 Barossa Vintage Festival, but someone had to do it. RITV stepped up to the plate (or was that the tasting bar?) to file this report.

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RITV Summer Series: 2024 Barossa Red Wine of Year

December 26, 2024 by 8 Comments

It was an arduous task for RITV each week of the footy season – having to choose a Barossa Red Wine of the Week! Today he announces the winner of his Best Barossa red of 2024.

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Almanac Photography: The park at Angaston

May 17, 2022 by 17 Comments

Theo Harms is in Year 9 at Faith Lutheran College in Tanunda. He recently completed a photography unit. He chose to go to the Angaston Railway Station Park in the late afternoon to put into practice some of the things he’s been learning.

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All hail, Tanunda Pines!

July 13, 2012 by 7 Comments

Each year I spend a few days in the Barossa Valley researching a story for The Rockford Rag. Rockford is a superb winery on Krondorf Road, on the Adelaide side of Tanunda and each year it puts out a little newspaper and in recent years I have been writing for it.

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