Tag: News
Candles for bushfire victims
By Kath GannawayA ROLL-CALL of the men, women and children who died in the 1939 bushfires was held at St Marys Anglican Church in...
Badger Creek was Eve’s Eden
obituary
Evelyn Frogley
Born: 12 February 1917
Died: 9 December 2008
GARDENING, cooking and, of course, family, were the threads which connected Evelyn Frogley to her much-loved Badger...
Fire horror remembered
By Kath GannawayFORESTS Commission employees Charles Demby from Toolangi and John Barling from Pascoe Vale were the first of 71 people to perish in...
Sky the limit for farewell
Above: Mr Jones was joined by By Kath Gannaway
LEAVING school was an uplifting experience for Healesville Primary School principal Howard Jones.
There were tears,...
Looking back at the year that was, the Mail this week takes a look...
POLICE continue their search for missing bushwalker Warren Meyer who went missing on Dom Dom Saddle on Easter Sunday.
YARRA Ranges Shire calls on...
Man killed in bike head-on
By Monique EbringtonTWO motorcycles collided on the Black Spur last Wednesday killing a 49-year-old Mooroolbark man and leaving his 45-year-old wife and a 32-year-old...
From the
By Kath GannawayVICTORIA was in the grip of a hot, dry summer when in the second week of January 1939 the state erupted...
Tourists attacked
By Kath GannawayLILYDALE Criminal Investigation Unit is appealing for witnesses to an alleged assault in Queen’s Park in Healesville in December to come forward.
Senior...
Book in for rhythm
By Kath GannawayTHE inaugural Rhythm and Red concert was a sell-out success in December and Healesville’s newest music event is, it seems, on a...
Lions’ pride dented
THE Lions Club of Healesville will have to dip into hard-earned funds to replace a trailer stolen between Christmas and New Year.
The trailer and...
Call for speed change
By Kath GannawayTHE DEATH of a 57-year-old Eumemmering truck driver on Wednesday has led to renewed calls for a reduction of the speed limit...
Brigades had baptism of fire
It was Sunday 8 January 1939. Forest Officer John Barling went to check on a fire, which had been burning for several days near...