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Did you know?
It’s a gastronomic gestimate, but according to Bruce Adams, Coldstream produces around 50 million sprouts a year. To help visualise, that’s 50,000,000 of the little…
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Did you know?
There were five stations on the Healesville railway line which opened in 1889 – Coldstream, Yering, Yarra Glen, Tarrawarra and Healesville. The current Healesville railway…
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Did you know?
The ‘Bendy Bridge’ over Myrtle Creek between Don Valley and Healesville is thought to have been built around 1930, probably replacing an earlier World War…
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Young people today!
Young people are a force to be reckoned with in the Yarra Valley and two who stand out, among many others, are Healesville’s Jayden Crozier…
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Women protecting the catchments
Melbourne Water’s female fire fighters made the Mail’s front page in January as the fire season moved into the new year. Along with visiting American…
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Best of Yarra Valley – Your Say
What do you love most about where you live? The wide open spaces and the local community. Dan Board, Woori Yallock. What’s your…
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Watch out for wombats
Healesville Sanctuary has treated 82 wombats in the past 12 months, and around half are due to road trauma. As they deal with a winter…
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Artwork honours Memorial Hall
An artwork that re-uses pieces of the parquetry floor of The Memo in Healesville will pay homage to the hall’s layered history as a Memorial…
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Plan for timber transition
The group of six saw millers known as ‘the G6’ have put forward a proposal to transition to plantation timber. In an open letter to…
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Green light for play precinct
Work on the Warburton Community Recreation Precinct is set to commence next year following approval of the planning application for stage one by Yarra Ranges…
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A lifeline at last
The Bowness family of Healesville have been thrown a life-line with the listing of cystic fibrosis (CF) medication Orkambi on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme earlier…
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Rewarding community kindness
Healesville’s first Random Acts of Kindness week is on its way. Beechworth Bakery’s Kylie Bray said the idea for the project had been in her…
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