Tag: News
Grapes withering
By Kath GannawayYARRA Valley grape growers were counting their losses this week in an industry scorched in seven days of heatwave and two days...
Scant tales of hope
By Melissa MeehanTHE heart of the Yarra Valley was a scene of smouldering land and police roadblocks after the inferno that ripped through Yarra...
Putting clothes on their backs
By Tania Martin
SIMPLY finding a change of clothes is a challenge for many living in the Yarra Valley as they continue to count the...
Champs camp
By Monique EbringtonYARRA VALLEY children piled onto a McKenzies bus with sleeping bags, swimmers, pillows and the local police for the annual Portsea Camp.
In...
Drive for justice
By Kath GannawayTHE father of a 21-year-old Warburton man killed in a car crash at Warburton in 2007 has called for radical and early...
A life of service
By Kath GannawaySHIRLEY Dennehy, who died on 5 January, valued the public school education that provided the building blocks for a lifetime of exceptional...
‘Sorry’ speech celebrated
By Monique Ebrington‘SORRY’ was the word that had the nation at a standstill on 13 February 2008 when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to...
Jolly trolleys
Plenty of people enjoyed the novelty of the new store, live coverage from 3AW and plenty of giveaways.
Hourly trolley dashes kept customers entertained as...
Club centenary celebrated
By Stuart TeatherCRICKETERS past and present came together at the Yarra Junction Cricket Club on the weekend to help celebrate the club’s centenary.
Former members...
Lucky late dash
By Monique EbringtonEXPLODING houses is what 70-year-old James Thomas remembers the most of his last-minute dash from his Kinglake home on Saturday.
Mr Thomas and...
Logo for network
US Bus Lines general manager Ron Hurley and the Shire of Yarra Ranges business support officer Donna Donovan check out the new logo to...
Take a page out of wildlife group’s book
Seth Hynes’s passion for books has been well catered for at the Judith Eardley Wildlife Shop. Pictured with Seth are Peter Hannaford, who founded...
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$9.3 billion surplus announced in Federal Budget as heavy future deficits...
The Albanese Labor Government handed down its second successive operating surplus in the Federal Budget on Tuesday 14 May.
Casey MP Aaron Violi shared his...
