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Making Healesville’s Markers

Community engagement can work wonders and the Healesville Lions Club has shown that with their Coronation Park Markers Project, launched on Sunday 25 November. In...

Mezzanine Milestone

Badger Creek Men’s Shed President, Mario Herodotus, launched the club’s new mezzanine floor by declaring it was opening “in the fourth year of the...

Fighting to save wildlife

 School students shared how they were fighting wildlife extinction at a Healesville Sanctuary showcase. The kids from six local schools met at the sanctuary on...

Healesville to shine

The project to restore the former Healesville street decorations is nearing completion and it is expected they will back on show in the first...

Join in at Queens Park

The Healesville Community Carols are on Saturday 22 December and are the place to be for anyone who wants to add their voice to...

A supper on respect

A Healesville supper will hear how the community is fostering respectful relationships. Community members and services across the Yarra Valley are invited to have supper...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Skywhale.

We often look to the sky and wonder about our place in the world, and this is especially true when we see a whale...

Sharing and caring the key

People who’ve experienced homelessness will mentor others who are sleeping rough, in crisis accommodation or at-risk of losing the roof over their head. Lilydale not-for-profit...

Urgent appeal for toys

HICCI, a network of Christian churches in Healesville and Yarra Glen, has been handing out Christmas hampers and children’s gifts to locals for around...

Floored after 20 years

It may have taken two decades but Wandin Yallock Primary School has put the finishing touch to The Stadium, a very shiny new floor. Business...

Motorcyclist dies following Healesville crash

 A motorcyclist has died following a crash in Healesville on 11 November. The bike was travelling south along Healesville-Kooweerup Road in convoy with another motorbike...

Polio – the encore virus

In the last 20 years polio has been all but eradicated globally and today is prevalent in only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was...

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Study estimates saving Australia’s priority species could cost as much as...

A new study from Griffith University’s Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, with WWF-Australia and the University of Queensland, has estimated that preventing...