News
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Ceiling smashed
By JESSE GRAHAM Top jobs for women make council history… FOR the first time in the shire’s history, two women have been elected to the…
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Tramway’s rich history recalled
By KATH GANNAWAY THERE were hundreds of timber tramways throughout Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, but the Powelltown tramway was unique.…
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Rear hit pushes car into traffic
By JESSE GRAHAM A THREE-car collision in Coldstream last weekend has left two men in hospital with serious injuries and police looking for witnesses to…
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By KATH GANNAWAY GIRLS from around the Yarra Valley showed they are just as keen as the boys when it comes to cricket, defying the…
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Pay up say anti-loggers
By JESSE GRAHAM ANTI-LOGGERS are demanding more than $60 million from VicForests as unpaid dividends for logging forests, although the timber company said its payments…
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Cash splash for bowls green
By JESSE GRAHAM A $100,000 funding kick-start will see Healesville Bowling Club breathing new life into an old green, with players ecstatic about redevelopment at…
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Help yourselves
By KATH GANNAWAY UPPER Yarra residents need to plan for their own survival in a bushfire. That is the unfaltering message being driven home by…
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Down memory lane
By JESSE GRAHAM A CELEBRATION of Marysville through the ages hit the Community Centre on Saturday night, as those with links to the town dressed…
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Relay lives on
By KATH GANNAWAY TEN years on from the first Yarra Ranges Relay for Life, hundreds of people came together on the weekend for the anniversary…
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Thousands of reasons to remember
By KATH GANNAWAY and JESSE GRAHAM COMMUNITIES around the Yarra Valley commemorated Remembrance Day on Monday attending local cenotaphs at 11am to remember those who…
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Jet ski rider injured in crash
By KATH GANNAWAY A JET SKI crash in which a Woori Yallock man was seriously injured has sparked a warning from water police for jet…
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Food for the soul helps out
By JESSE GRAHAM HOT meals and warm smiles were just a few of the features on offer at last week’s Dinner at Darron’s event, which…