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Monash’s citizen soldiers remembered
By KATH GANNAWAY
THE first of two story boards marking 100 years since then Colonel John Monash marched 3000 citizen soldiers into Lilydale was erected...
Call to chop overcrowded windbreaks
By KATH GANNAWAY
FARM windbreaks across the Yarra Valley are taking a battering as the drought puts new and established plantings under stress.
But a nurseryman...
Pause to remember
By JESSE GRAHAM
COMMUNITY members stopped for a minute of silence on Friday night, as residents gathered from across the Yarra Ranges to mark the...
Gladysdale’s fast fire
By KATH GANNAWAY
UPPER Yarra communities awoke to Watch and Act alerts on Sunday morning as a fast-moving grassfire in Gladysdale spread into scrub.
By noon...
Five years on from our darkest days
TODAY marks the fifth anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires, which struck areas across the Yarra Ranges and Murrindini Shires on 7 February, 2009.
The...
A sense of foreboding
By FORMER MAIL CHIEF OF STAFF NARELLE COULTER
SATURDAY 7 February, 2009 had a terrible foreboding about it even before the temperature started to climb...
That Surreal Sunday
By FORMER MAIL EDITOR GARRY HOWE
IT IS not so much Black Saturday that remains etched in the memory, more Surreal Sunday and the days...
Stories stood test of time
By KATH GANNAWAY
AMONG THE hundreds of stories I’ve done over the past five years, the CFA series talking to the 17 brigades in our...
Fire through the eyes of a teen
By JESSE GRAHAM
I was 16 when Black Saturday happened.
I remember the day clearly and vividly, though it wasn’t until later in the day that...
Five years on, it still burns
By EDITOR MELISSA MEEHAN
IT'S hard to believe it was five years ago.
Black Saturday will forever be planted deeply in my memory.
Not just...
Alternative animals focus of show
AN ALTERNATIVE farming experience is available for community members, with technology, cattle and seminars on offer for farm-folk at an annual exposition.
The Seymour Alternative...
Revving to go
TARRAWARRA Estate had an unlikely visitor this morning, as a two-seater Formula 1 car drove in past the vineyards as the sun rose.
The car,...
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Big news for Toolangi Public Recreation Reserve and Camping Reserve and...
Toolangi Public Recreation Reserve and Camping Reserve will receive $16,000 for Toolangi cricket pitch refurbishment, and Glenburn Hall and Progress Association Inc will receive...
