Tag: News
Help locate service badge plea
By JESSE GRAHAM
A FORMER Healesville soldier is calling for help to find a 50-year-old service badge, lost at last week’s Remembrance Day ceremony.
On Wednesday...
Government wheels in motion
By KATH GANNAWAY
MILLWARRA Primary School students have had a practical lesson in how the wheels of government turn. It can be a big leap...
Marathon riders are all heart
By JESSE GRAHAM
A GROUP of cyclists made their way into Healesville today, finishing off the second-last leg of a 1200-kilometre ride from Canberra to...
Silent tribute to their service
By JESSE GRAHAM, KATH GANNAWAY AND PETER DOUGLAS
AT THE 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, residents in the Yarra Valley...
429 booked in on Cup Day
By JESSE GRAHAM
POLICE have labelled driver behaviour over the Melbourne Cup Day weekend as ‘unacceptable’, slamming results that saw hundreds of people booked in...
Best bet for potable water
By JESSE GRAHAM
A HEALESVILLE Rotarian is campaigning for fresh drinking water for Kenyan children, setting up along the main street selling raffle tickets over...
Roping in valley and hills for relay
By JESSE GRAHAM
THE Yarra Ranges Relay for Life may return to the Dandenong Ranges next year, in an effort to draw teams from the...
Their own little miracle: family’s emotional battle with flesh-eating bug
By KATH GANNAWAY
A WARBURTON dad has told of his family’s rollercoaster between heaven and hell as a rare infection threatened his 12-year-old daughter’s life,...
Care cap off
By PETER DOUGLAS
THE Municipal Association of Victoria has defended Yarra Ranges Council’s approval of a policy amendment that will remove a limit placed on...
Three face drug charges
A GRUYERE man has been remanded in custody to face court next week, after being arrested in a police raid in Mooroolbark last month.
Yarra...
Ricky’s dignity restored
By JODIE SYMONDS
AN EAST Timor teen received dignity-restoring surgery, and got the chance to meet his favourite furry friends at Healesville Sanctuary last week.
Heldericky...
Man killed in construction site explosion
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
A HEALESVILLE MAN has died following an industrial accident in Harkaway this morning.
At 11.40am, emergency services were called to a Medley Close...