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Thyme is right for Timorese

By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN A UNIVERSITY project has developed into a passion to help East Timorese women who want to further their education. Warburton resident Amy Stevenson...

Labor pushes NBN links

By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN THE UPPER Yarra will soon have faster speed internet connections after Woori Yallock and Warburton were named as two of the newest...

Who’s really pulling the strings?

By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN CHUCK Wood, the charming and witty 12-year-old puppet, is out to take over his master’s mind with plans of puppet mutiny. The posters...

Mums network for business

By JESSE GRAHAM MUMS who want to learn essential skills to run their own businesses now have a supportive, positive environment to learn in with...

Hearty harvest

By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN GLADYSDALE Primary School celebrated the harvest season with its annual Apple and Wine Festival on Sunday 5 May. It was a chilly day...

Fireguards earn reward

By KATH GANNAWAY MT RAEL Community Fireguard Group has been recognised by the CFA for an outstanding commitment to community fire safety. The Mt Rael CFG...

Big skate day sizzles

FOOD, music, skate ramps and fun were the order of the day for a recent skating event in Warburton. Many young people went down to...

Fire tale a legacy in the telling

By KATH GANNAWAY FOR historian and author Dr Peter Stanley writing living history has weighed heavily. His book Black Saturday at Steels Creek will be launched...

Pokie appeal before tribunal

By KATH GANNAWAY THE VCAT hearing to determine whether Healesville will have a further injection of electronic gaming machines will continue on 22 May. Pink Hill...

Miner leads search for metals

By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN A MINING company has lodged an application to search for gold and antimony in Steels Creek. Australasian Antimony Mines is seeking to explore...

Scheme offers fresh hope

By KATH GANNAWAY POLITICS aside, the beneficiaries of bi-partisan support for a national disability insurance scheme, and a levy to help fund it, are people...

Fire break

By KATH GANNAWAY THE State Government will remove the ‘tax on tax’ component of the new Fire Services Property Levy (FSPL) which comes into effect...

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Double take: record number of twins start at Mount Lilydale

Seeing double at Mount Lilydale Mercy College will be a common occurrence for the next six years with the largest cohort of twins to...