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Strange Country heads roundup
STEVE Messer’s Strange Country band will feature in the Little Yarra Roundup at Powelltown on 14 November. The Tamworth Country Music Festival award winners are…
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Milk of human kindness
By Monique EbringtonROTARY Club of Healesville members have returned home after donating three cows to widows in Uganda. Healesville Rotarians Sally Browne, Bruce Damman, Wilma…
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Plastic fantastic at Healesville
By Kath GannawayHEALESVILLE races got off to a brilliant season start on Saturday with 3500 people flocking to the course for Derby Day – country…
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An appetite for drama
FOOD for thought will be on the menu at the Upper Yarra Arts Centre in Warburton on Saturday, 21 November. Beyond Cuisine is an evening…
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A hard lesson from fires
Toolangi CFA, back row, left to right: Maria Lissenburg, Michael Van De Ven, Robert Van De Ven, Kelley Walker*, Peter McMahon, Bruce McClements and Brian…
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This is serious, baby
By Kath GannawayAMANDA Duncan and partner Adam Easton take their roles as team manager and assistant coach for Yarra Glen’s premiership under-11s very seriously. In…
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Take the path to award winner – The 100 metre wisteria and rose arbour is a feature of the gar
WHAT was once an occasional opportunity to discover John and Prue Van de Linde’s outstanding Alowyn Gardens is now an every weekend event. The 1.5…
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Shakes at Waters’ edge
By Steve BrownWITH veteran paceman Paul Wilson a late withdrawal because of injury, Upwey Tecoma’s emerging medium-fast bowler Sam Waters stepped up on day one…
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Right turn allowed
By Kath GannawayRESIDENTS of King Street in Yarra Glen have won the right to turn right into Bell Street. The Yarra Glen Township Group and…
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Hostel to close
Residents will soon be moved out of Schofield Supported Residential Service. By Kath GannawayCONFIRMATION that Schofield Supported Residential Service in Healesville will close in December…
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Bats put runs on the board
By Keith Thompson, YVCA secretaryTHE start of Round 4 was played in wonderful cricket weather all over the Yarra Valley. In the D.J. Strachan Shield,…
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Kids do hard yards for bikes
By Monique EbringtonMILLWARRA Primary School students are fed up with their bikes being stolen, pulled apart or dumped in waterways by heartless thieves and vandals.…