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Truck stuck in Coldstream
A stuck truck on Maroondah Highway caused traffic diversions in Coldstream. The driver was attempted to perform a U-turn just after 8.30am but the front…
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Wandin through students’ eyes
Wandin North children used their artistic talents and feelings about their home to brighten up a shopping strip. Flowers, footballs, basketballs, leaves and fruit, birds…
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Remembering Black Saturday
The State Government is offering grants of up to $5000 for community groups in 21 municipalities affected by the Black Saturday Bushfires in 2009. The…
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Spinning a yarn
The Healesville Spinners and Weavers are a multi-craft group whose common bond is creating beautiful things from natural fibres. “We call it fibre-craft and we…
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Linking art and nature
Leading visual and performing artists will unleash a Force of Nature in Lilydale. The exhibition will run until Sunday 14 October at Yarra Ranges Museum.…
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Des’s stories will live on
William ‘Des’ Morrish’s account of the devastating 1939 bushfires still makes riveting reading. Des told his part of the story 70 years after the event…
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Growing suburbs by $8.5 million
Major trail projects and a new soccer pitch in Yarra Ranges will become a reality following a significant cash boost from the State Government’s Growing…
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Healesville Sanctuary celebrates birth of endangered Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
Healesville Sanctuary is celebrating the birth of an endangered Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo – the first ever to be born at the Sanctuary. Mani and her…
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Rallying around in Toolangi
The Toolangi Forrest will be buzzing on Sunday 16 September when the Victorian Rally Championship and the Victorian Club Rally Series run through the area.…
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Lilydale man shot in Buxton
Emergency services responded to reports of a shooting in Buxton on Tuesday 11 September. Police understand two men were involved in an altercation at an…
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Career a happy accident
Well, after the longest apprenticeship in history, I signed off on Friday 7 September after 20 years with the Mail. It was an accidental career…
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Riding to remember Anne
For the past five years, the Jones family has been the driving force behind the annual Ride to Remember – Yarra Valley bike ride. Sisters…