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Hello possum – feds weigh in
By JESSE GRAHAM UPDATE: Thursday, 23 April THE FEDERAL Environment Minister has said upgrading the status of the Leadbeater’s Possum to critically endangered may push…
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Driver treated after ute flattens fence
By JESSE GRAHAM A 52-year-old Kallista man has being taken to Maroondah Hospital after crashing his car into a fence in Healesville today, Wednesday. Police…
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Women, children injured in crash
By JESSE GRAHAM UPDATE: 12.05pm. TWO WOMEN and two children have been taken to hospital after a serious car crash this morning in Gruyere. Emergency…
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Course is clear for injured koala
By JESSE GRAHAM VET surgeons at Healesville Sanctuary were a sight for sore eyes for an injured koala earlier today, which had its eye removed…
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Lost in a Flanders field
By JOLLY READ ALMOST 100 years ago, a 21-year-old Warburton man lay gravely wounded and fighting for his life on the other side of…
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Remember this day of days
By KATH GANNAWAY THIS year marks the centenary of Gallipoli, a landmark campaign of WWI, and a defining event in the history of Australia.…
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Place of peace
By KATH GANNAWAY GALLIPOLI Park: For decades the Anzac Day march in Marysville has finished at the park which bears the name of a…
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Safety lights for CFA
By JESSE GRAHAM YARRA GLEN CFA received a generous community donation from a local restaurant, which will go towards safety lights to protect children. The…
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Fitting tribute for VC recipient
By PETER DOUGLAS THE Yarra Valley’s sole Victoria Cross recipient, Captain George Ingram, will soon be honoured further with a memorial established at his hometown…
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Avenue of Honour reinvigorated
By PETER DOUGLAS RIGHT in time for the Anzac Centenary, the Healesville Avenue of Honour received a boost on Friday with the unveiling of…
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Nurse’s role of honour
JESSIE McHardy White’s name takes pride of place on the Dixons Creek Primary School Honour Board. Born in 1870, her distinguished career as a…
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Private Halford Leonard Platt
Private Halford Leonard Platt, of Millgrove, enlisted on 30 June, 1915. He embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Star of Victoria on 10 September, 1915.…
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