Tag: News
Ceiling smashed
By JESSE GRAHAM
Top jobs for women make council history...
FOR the first time in the shire’s history, two women have been elected to the top...
Tramway’s rich history recalled
By KATH GANNAWAY
THERE were hundreds of timber tramways throughout Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, but the Powelltown tramway was unique.
Built...
Rear hit pushes car into traffic
By JESSE GRAHAM
A THREE-car collision in Coldstream last weekend has left two men in hospital with serious injuries and police looking for witnesses to...
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By KATH GANNAWAY
GIRLS from around the Yarra Valley showed they are just as keen as the boys when it comes to cricket, defying the...
Pay up say anti-loggers
By JESSE GRAHAM
ANTI-LOGGERS are demanding more than $60 million from VicForests as unpaid dividends for logging forests, although the timber company said its payments...
Cash splash for bowls green
By JESSE GRAHAM
A $100,000 funding kick-start will see Healesville Bowling Club breathing new life into an old green, with players ecstatic about redevelopment at...
Help yourselves
By KATH GANNAWAY
UPPER Yarra residents need to plan for their own survival in a bushfire.
That is the unfaltering message being driven home by the...
Down memory lane
By JESSE GRAHAM
A CELEBRATION of Marysville through the ages hit the Community Centre on Saturday night, as those with links to the town dressed...
Relay lives on
By KATH GANNAWAY
TEN years on from the first Yarra Ranges Relay for Life, hundreds of people came together on the weekend for the anniversary...
Thousands of reasons to remember
By KATH GANNAWAY and JESSE GRAHAM
COMMUNITIES around the Yarra Valley commemorated Remembrance Day on Monday attending local cenotaphs at 11am to remember those who...
Jet ski rider injured in crash
By KATH GANNAWAY
A JET SKI crash in which a Woori Yallock man was seriously injured has sparked a warning from water police for jet...
Food for the soul helps out
By JESSE GRAHAM
HOT meals and warm smiles were just a few of the features on offer at last week’s Dinner at Darron’s event, which...