News
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Market boosts eight brigades
By KATH GANNAWAY EIGHT local fire brigades and the Upper Yarra SES are the most recent organisations to benefit from the Upper Yarra Community Market.…
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Plastic bagged
By KATH GANNAWAY A CAMPAIGN to make Warburton a plastic bag free zone will be launched on 29 July with the showing of the film…
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Roadside dumping
By JESSE GRAHAM POTENTIALLY harmful chemicals from roadsides may have been collected and dumped at the entrance to Healesville by VicRoads, according to a Healesville…
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Indigenous roll of honour
By JESSE GRAHAM AN HONOUR roll acknowledging outstanding indigenous Victorians is on display at the Healesville Library for a few more days, following an opening…
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Job done and dusted
By JESSE GRAHAM A BLACK Saturday recovery group has hung up their tool belts, finishing up with over 65,000 hours of community work clocked in.…
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Scrapping food grant hits pocket
By JESSE GRAHAM A YARRA GLEN family will be left footing hundreds of dollars in monthly food bills if the government follows through on cuts…
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Closer look at the NDIS
By JESSE GRAHAM AN INFORMATION session on the National Disability Insurance Scheme brought a full room of residents to the Healesville Memorial Hall last week…
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Standing strong for 140
By JESSE GRAHAM A LOT can change in 140 years, but Dixons Creek Primary School principal, Sharon Walker, said some things might not change at…
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Groups breathe easy as funds flow
By JESSE GRAHAM COMMUNITY groups in the valley will have funding certainty for the coming three years, after Yarra Ranges councillors unanimously passed partnership grants…
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Money raised within community
By KATH GANNAWAY MONEY has changed hands at Upper Yarra Secondary College … but it’s all good. In what may at first glance seem an…
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Party hair is worth a lot
By KATH GANNAWAY ROSIE Hellicar is passionate about Koha Community Cafe. Even if her mum says she is a fussy eater! The Millgrove 10-year-old with…
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Big love of big screen
By KATH GANNAWAY BY ANY measure, the 32nd Warburton Film Festival was an outstanding success. From the Friday night’s Show Us Your Shorts short film…