News
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Crystal crunch
By MELISSA MEEHAN Government backs anti-ice campaign as police call for more community involvement… POLICE, health experts and the government are on the right track,…
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Devastating storms
By KATH GANNAWAY IN A cruel twist of fate, Upper Yarra was lashed with storms last week, just one day into VICSES’s annual StormSafe Week…
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Melba would be pleased
By JESSE GRAHAM A TASTE of history – and some of the valley’s best produce – is on offer to visitors tomorrow, as a redeveloped…
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Child puts hand up for Eildon
By JESSE GRAHAM APPLAUSE rang out in the Yarra Ranges Council chambers last night, when councillor Jim Child announced he would stand for the State…
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Lucky escape as winds wreak havoc
By JESSE GRAHAM A COLOSSAL tree crashed through a Healesville roof last night, centimetres from a sleeping man, as wild winds ravaged the Yarra Valley…
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Smoke detector
By KATH GANNAWAY Strap: Life-saving kitty shares nine lives with owner CRAIG Geeves has no doubt he owes his life to his cat, Sully. “I’m…
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Vibrant voices
By JESSE GRAHAM IT was a vibrant morning for Yarra Glen Preschool’s kids last week, when the Valley Voices community choir came to say –…
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Shocking find
By KATH GANNAWAY THE Victorian Workcover Authority (VWA) is asking questions about how and why live electrical wires were left exposed at the base of…
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Night games to light up
By JESSE GRAHAM YARRA GLEN is set to light up for night-time games and training next year, with $160,000 in funding announced last week. Minister…
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Riding against cancer
By JODIE SYMONDS A SISTER and brother will cycle 200 kilometres in two days for cancer research in October. Seville East resident Robyn Hall, 43,…
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Upper Yarra Police
Court sequel to crash AN 18-year-old Hoddles Creek man will face court following a crash on the Gembrook-Launching Place Road in Hoddles Creek on Sunday,…
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Car flips, narrow escape
By JESSE GRAHAM A PREGNANT driver had a lucky escape after rolling her car in Yarra Glen last week. The driver, a 25-year-old Kinglake woman,…