Jane’s bush kinder brings award
Family day care educator Jane Thomas has been named a regional winner of the 2019 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards for the third...
Brightening the patient experience
Palliative care patients at Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health will have access to two beautiful hand-crafted quilts thanks to a kind donation the...
Sign language at the sanctuary
Healesville Sanctuary celebrated the National Week of Deaf People from September 21-27.
A wide range of their wildlife shows and presentations featured Auslan interpreters to...
Funeral service to honour Aunty Dot
The Yarra Ranges community is mourning the passing of Indigenous Elder Aunty Dorothy ‘Dot’ Peters AM on Thursday 19 September.
The funeral service for Aunty...
4500 bees swarm car parked at Healesville Hospital
How many bees is an acceptable number to have living on your car?
For me, a number doesn’t immediately spring to mind, as I’ve never...
Hay fire causes havoc on highway
A truck transporting hay caught fire in Healesville causing the Maroondah Highway to be blocked for several hours on the morning of Friday 20...
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Operation Scoreboard
Victoria Police will be executing their game plan over the grand final long weekend and ask the community to consider theirs as police...
Gunning for glory
Cold weather greeted the competitors at the Woods Point Gun Club for the Maori Creek September Championships.
Shooters from as far as Bright, Morwell, Melbourne,...
Preschool helps social skills
Marysville Preschool held a special excursion on Friday 13 September when they visited Badger Creek Preschool for the day.
The aim behind joining the classes...
Push for better disability access
A Warburton resident is calling for changes to be made to the disability access at Warburton Police Station after an elderly man’s motorised scooter...
Healesville hosts music video shoot
Those who walked past the Healesville Hotel on Tuesday 17 September may have noticed the pub’s windows blacked out and other filming equipment in...
Women’s footy booming in the valley
Three new senior women’s footy teams could breakthrough to the AFL Outer East competition in what would be a huge boost for women’s footy...
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Keep an eye out and remove the invasive Ragwort weed
A local landcare group is calling for residents across the Yarra Ranges to take action to prevent the spread of a pesky pasture weed.
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