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Drive a formula for success
By JESSE GRAHAM THE Yarra Valley had an unexpected visitor last week as a Formula One car took to TarraWarra Estate’s vineyards at sunrise before…
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School zone crack-down
By JESSE GRAHAM HEALESVILLE police are set to crack down on illegal parking, bad behaviour and speeding in school zones in the coming weeks, with…
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Skills under one shed roof
By JESSE GRAHAM A NEW men’s shed will soon be built for Toolangi residents following a $69,000 funding boost from the state government and the…
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‘Mossy’ brings it home
By REBECCA BILLS WANDIN East Reserve rocked to life at Rockaberry Jam – the newest open air rock concert that featured headline acts including Ian…
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Black day for protest
By JESSE GRAHAM A PROTEST in the Toolangi State Forest on the fifth anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires has been dubbed “disgraceful” by an…
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Thoughts pooled
By JESSE GRAHAM THE ISSUE of Healesville Indoor Pool’s financial struggle has motivated residents, with an action group forming and lengthy letters being sent in…
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Kids to get a helping hand
By JESSE GRAHAM FIRE-affected families will receive a helping hand from a new scholarship program, which aims to ease school-related financial tension on children and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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