New menu at Gardens Bistro
N0W approaching its second birthday, Gardens Bistro, at the Dorset Gardens Hotel, continues to offer a point of difference to other similar venues in...
Boost for transport
By Dion TeasdaleTHE Shire of Yarra Ranges has joined forces with the cities of Knox, Maroondah, Monash, Greater Dandenong, Manningham and Whitehorse to form...
Food choices
Food choices
YARRA Valley Community Health Services is conducting a Supermarket Tour for Christmas food shopping on Thursday, 15 December at Coles in Healesville. Take...
Study numbers stack up
By Melissa DonchiANYONE who’s completed VCE will know what it’s like.
The intensive studying, those last-minute cramming sessions and then that all too brief exam...
It’s official! No relief for farmers
By Kath Gannaway
YARRA Valley farmers have failed to prove a case for ‘exceptional circumstances’ drought relief.
The Department of Primary Industry (DPI), in a letter...
Upper Yarra kids to go to Games
UPPER Yarra Secondary College’s commitment to its community has been rewarded with tickets to see the squash competition at the Commonwealth Games during the...
Power play for a day
By Kath Gannaway
HEALESVILLE High School student Robert Cameron had a taste of life in the municipal fast lane last week and he carried out...
Lifestyle for village people
IMAGINE playing snooker three times a week, being driven shopping on Tuesdays, practising tai chi on Wednesdays and enjoying a game of bowls on...
On full alert for bird flu
WITH the world’s attention focused on the possible outbreak of avian influenza, more commonly called bird flu, the Australian Government is on full alert.
Historically,...
Globetrotter Rob makes partner
By Dion TeasdaleA FORMER Healesville resident has been made a partner in a one of the world’s leading global business consultancy companies.
Rob Tyler, 35,...
Field Days a dream
By Melissa MeehanTHE 38th annual Wandin-Silvan Field Days was held over the weekend at the Wandin East Recreation Reserve with organisers touting it as...
Bank profits build better community
WARBURTON Community Bank has handed out almost $120,000 to Upper Yarra community groups as part of its latest community grants program.
Twentyfour school, sports, arts,...
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Violi, Coalition remain forthright in housing debate as Help to Buy...
Housing, or the lack of, has been a topic of discussion in Federal Parliament as the debate over how to provide affordable buy and...
