News
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Focus on homeless youth
By KATH GANNAWAY CHANGES to planning laws in Yarra Ranges could go a long way in helping get homeless young people off the street, off…
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Helping out in Cambodia
By JESSE GRAHAM YARRA Valley women banded together to raise thousands for disadvantaged families in Cambodia last month, as part of a 10-day retreat. The…
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Bollards take a walk
By JESSE GRAHAM THE WARBURTON community remains mystified as to why four steel bollards were stolen earlier this year, and people with information are being…
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Jumping school goes places
ATHLETES from Launching Place Primary School will head off to Queensland on Friday to represent the school in the National Schoolaerobics Championships. The school has…
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Eagles lap up spotlight
By PETER DOUGLAS YARRA Junction Football Netball Club took centre stage over the weekend as Worksafe Victoria launched its latest advertising campaign at the club’s…
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HICCI appoints new chief
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS ALISON Gommers, a Healesville local for the last 13 years, is the new leader of Healesville Interchurch Community Care Incorporated (HICCI). Ms…
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The fight to farm
By KATH GANNAWAY CHANGES to planning rules that would pave the way for intensive farming in Green Wedge zones may come too late for a…
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Boys and girls out to play
By KATH GANNAWAY WAS there ever a better time for aspiring young cricketers to step up for Australia? MILO Cricket is a great introduction to…
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Wine heart beats for Encounter
By KATH GANNAWAY SOME of the Yarra Valley’s finest boutique wines will be on offer at the Gruyere Cheese and Wine Encounter in Gruyere on…
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Slippery finish to meet
By JAMES LAVIN DESPITE the arctic-like cold and muddy conditions, Yarra Ranges athletes turned out in droves to face the fresh and challenging inaugural Coldstream…
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Training buddies, skiing champs
LAKE Mountain is proving to be a rich vein for internationally rated cross country skiers with Olympic ambitions, and Don Valley’s Casey Wright is right…
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Smith is Speaker
By JESSE GRAHAM Update: 11.11AM. CASEY MP Tony Smith has been elected as the 30th Speaker of the House of Representatives in Canberra. Mr Smith,…