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Furious councillors knock back cash

Yarra Ranges Councillors knocked back an opportunity to apply for $4 million for a Powelltown project. At their Tuesday 13 November meeting, they debated a...

New Italian event in the valley

All things Italy are descending on Healesville and Warburton. The Ciao Yarra Valley Ciao event will culminate in the Festa di via Verde in Healesville...

Eildon candidates on the Maternity Push

ALP candidate Sally Brennan said giving birth was a life-changing experience, and the environment in which it occurred was so important for the well-being...

Pledge for FEM change

Liberal Eildon incumbent Cindy McLeish said new plumbing regulations were affecting fire equipment maintenance for CFA brigades. She said that under the Labor Government’s Plumbing...

Share the road and save the kids

Amy Gillett, an olympic athlete and world class cyclist, was tragically killed in 2005 while on a training ride in Germany. The Amy Gillett Foundation,...

Messing about in boats

A 13 day kayaking odyssey from Warburton to Williamstown in early 2018 is one way ‘to dare’ yourself to do something. Ivor Wolstencroft, a former...

Cross with care

The Mail recently wrote about the Maroondah Highway and Badger Creek Road intersection and on 28 September reported VicRoads as saying “the infrastructure already...

Colour explosion in Launching Place

Launching Place Primary School ended the week with a huge explosion - a colour explosion that is. In a fundraising effort on 16 November, that...

Wilde in the park

Yarra Ranges Regional Museum is breaking new ground with its first outdoor performance, Wilde Readings in the Park, on 21 November. The performance compliments the...

Liberals promise to restore reservoir park

If elected at the 24 November election, the Victorian Liberal Party has pledged $500,000 to return Maroondah Reservoir Park to its former glory. On 14...

Reservoir rendezvous

The state of the Maroondah Reservoir Park is such a sore point for many Healesville locals that the state Liberal party has pledged half...

Home delivery

 Carlee Tamme was born at Healesville Hospital. “I still see the same doctor that delivered me. He’s in Healesville too,” she said. She gave birth to...

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Road rehabilitation for Yarra Valley parks is in the process

In early October, Star Mail checked out the quality of the roads in the Maroondah Reservoir Park after receiving a report from a Warburton...