Tag: News
One stop community
By Kath Gannaway
Name one place where you can check out your local history, get behind the wheel of a billy cart, have a shot...
Plea to save platypus
By Derek Schlennstedt
A platypus has drowned after it became trapped in an opera house net in the Wandin-Yallock Creek and was found by a...
$4M tank upgrade for Healesville
By Kath Gannaway
Yarra Valley Water will spend $4million on a major upgrade of the Cornish Hill Reservoir water storage tank in Mt Riddell Road,...
Raining cats and dogs
By Derek Schlennstedt
A pet for Christmas is often a popular choice, though as they become bigger and harder to control their appeal suddenly begins...
Stop, Revive, Survive
By Kath Gannaway
Healesville SES’s Driver Reviver van has been a welcome and familiar sight over the years for drivers coming home over the Black...
Op Shops not defacto tips
By Kath Gannaway
Volunteers at Healesville opportunity shops have returned from their Christmas break to piles of rubbish on their doorsteps.
Dumped in the guise of...
Action aplenty at rodeo
By Peter Douglas
The Yarra Valley Rodeo was back to its bucking best at the Healesville Racecourse over the weekend, with another huge turnout supporting...
Tourism boost a golden chance
By Peter Douglas
The Yarra River alongside Warburton has the potential to become a tourism gold mine, quite literally, according to a long-time prospector.
President of...
Representatives support 26 January
By Peter Douglas, Derek Schlennstedt
Australia Day is more likely than not to remain on 26 January, if the Yarra Ranges’ state and federal representatives...
Deadly nets not on
Setting ‘opera house’ nets to catch yabbies is not only inhumane, it may be illegal, with hefty penalties attached.
The Department of Environment, Land, Water...
2017 revisited
By Kath Gannaway
2017 … it’s done and dusted now, but on reflection it was far from uneventful as the pages of the Mail recorded.
It...
People Power pays off
By Kath Gannaway
2017 was the year that ‘People Power’ paid off.
In Warburton and in Healesville, community members reaped the benefits of actively railing against...
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Healesville Biggest Morning Tea is back
An annual fundraiser to support the Cancer Council is coming back to Healesville on Wednesday 22 May.
The Healesville Biggest Morning Tea was first organised...
