Tag: News
Acrobats eye top spots
By MARC MCGOWAN
SEVEN Healesville acrobats with golden dreams are set to take on Australia’s best at the Sydney Gymnastics Centre next month.
Three teams in...
Passion for environment
STEWART Kerr was a man passionate about a number of things, none more so than the family he lived with and the environment he...
Seatbelt interlock trial
By BEN CAMERON
The TAC is trialling new seatbelt interlock technology in SafeCar that takes existing seatbelt reminder systems one step further and prevents the...
Cindy turns principal
By JESSE GRAHAM
SEYMOUR MP Cindy McLeish took the time to step into a different job earlier this month, when she took on the role...
Old solution fights crime
By JESSE GRAHAM
SECURITY will be bolstered at the Yarra Glen and Healesville Railway stations with a $17,000 government grant lighting up platforms at night.
The...
Carbon clawback
By JESSE GRAHAM
A COMMUNITY group has called on the council to refund carbon tax cash collected through rate rises in the last two years.
But...
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Attempted school break-in
POLICE are calling on witnesses to an attempted break-in at Yellingbo Primary School on Saturday morning.
The school security alarm went off...
Ice challenge is refreshing charity change
By JESSE GRAHAM
A HEALESVILLE woman is putting the call out to Yarra Valley residents to take part in a worldwide phenomenon and raise money...
Blinky Bill’s baby
By JESSE GRAHAM
SAY hello to one of Healesville Sanctuary’s newest residents.
The new female koala, born on New Year’s Eve, has been hiding away in...
Guarded response
By JESSE GRAHAM
WARBURTON kids got a chance to hone their green thumbs last week, in a tree-planting excursion along the Yarra River.
Children from Warburton...
Batman woman’s raid caper
POLICE are searching for a woman who they say made off with hundreds of dollars in electronics from the Lilydale Marketplace Shopping Centre, and...
Garry loved his roses
PASSIONATE about family, community and his roses, father, grandfather and great grandfather Garry Holden will always be remembered by the ones he touched dearly.
Living...
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First machete ban in Australia passes parliament
The Allan Labor Government has implemented Australia’s first machete ban with the Terrorism (Community Protection) and Control of Weapons Amendment Bill 2025 passing Parliament...
