Tag: News
Birthday banks on future
By KATH GANNAWAY
WOORI Yallock Community Bank’s 10th birthday dinner and AGM was a night of announcements and recognition.
Shareholders joined bank directors and staff at...
National park push goes on
By JESSE GRAHAM
MOMENTUM continued to build for a new national park in Toolangi last week, following a speech to environmental and anti-logging groups in...
Catch art showcase
By KATH GANNAWAY
SOME of Warburton potter Jeff Wilmott’s beautiful raku pots are no bigger than a handful.
This is in stunning contradiction to the towering...
Drugs, driving a deadly mix
By JESSE GRAHAM
IMPAIRED drivers will be in the crosshairs over the coming weeks, as police focus on keeping alcohol and drug affected drivers off...
Anti-loggers face their day in court
By JESSE GRAHAM
MEMBERS of a Toolangi anti-logging group will front court on Thursday to answer charges of trespassing and disrupting logging work last year.
Eight...
Hope for future
By KATH GANNAWAY
Church abuse inquiry report welcomed...
THE release last week of the Betrayal of Trust report has been described as historic and far-reaching by...
Council boils over Fluid costs
By JESSE GRAHAM
YARRA Ranges Council has slammed a legal claim against it as “vexatious and unsubstantiated.”
Council lawyers have vowed to fight the cost...
Shining smiles a success
POWELLTOWN celebrated on Sunday with hundreds of people pouring into the small mill town for the Powelltown Tramway Centenary celebrations.
The event was organised by...
Diamond show impresses
By MELISSA MEEHAN
THE sun was shining as thousands made their way to the Lilydale Showgrounds over the weekend in its 60th year.
Crowds from...
On a winner with the local
WE’RE Proudly Local … are you?
Some of you would have seen our “Proudly Local” bumper stickers while you’ve been out about in the Yarra...
Generous and humble
William ‘Bill’ Stanley Barker
Born: 21 August 1929
Died: 15 October 2013
FORMER Yarra Ranges businessman, Lillydale shire president and community worker Bill Barker passed away on...
Changing face of retail
By KATH GANNAWAY
IF you had asked Bill Wheeler what the Yarra Junction Hardware building would look like in 70 years' time, who knows what...
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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...
