UPDATE: Police have warned of potential flooding of Bridgewater Bridge.

SHIP building mastermind and pioneer of world-leading aluminium catamaran ferries, Bob Clifford, believes the future for the vessels is electric .. .. and he sees a world market for more than 1,000 of the type of vessels he plans to build at his new Boyer site.

LAST weekend the New Norfolk Licensed Anglers Association hosted the popular Derwent River Interclub Challenge trout fishing competition.

POLICE are renewing their call for public information on the anniversary of the disappearance of Lucille Gaye Butterworth, who went missing and is believed to have been murdered on August 25, 1969.

After a couple of false starts, because of the weather at Miena the Tasmanian Online Lions Club (TOLC) held their first changeover lunch at the Great Lake Hotel on Sunday August 18.

A $159 million project to factory-build high-tech homes and erect them in the Derwent Valley – along with an associated trade school – has moved from the planning stage towards realisation.

In what was a real old fashioned arm wrestle in wet and trying conditions, the Bothwell Football Club trumped the more fancied Triabunna by 10 points to take out the Oatlands District Football Association grand final last Saturday.

IF YOU notice an increase in boats and angler activity on the Derwent River this weekend that's because the New Norfolk Licensed Anglers Association is hosting one of the biggest trout fishing competitions of the year, the Derwent River Interclub Challenge.