Tag: News
Carer plea for ABC
By Kath GannawayHEALESVILLE childcare provider Robyn Jane Children’s Services is ready and willing to take over the failed ABC Learning Centre in Healesville, but...
Cattleman defends his ‘castle’
By Kath Gannaway
GLENBURN cattle breeder Don Lawson is preparing for a court battle already being compared with the David and Goliath battle depicted in...
Summer arrives with a blast
AS temperatures soared last week, with Tuesday and Wednesday reaching over 35 degrees, families and friends headed for popular water spots in the Yarra...
Road to fun
By Kath GannawayTHE stars of the Comedy Festival are coming to Warburton with a new show, the Comedy Road Trip.
Local comedian Michael Connell is...
Candles for bushfire victims
By Kath GannawayA ROLL-CALL of the men, women and children who died in the 1939 bushfires was held at St Marys Anglican Church in...
Badger Creek was Eve’s Eden
obituary
Evelyn Frogley
Born: 12 February 1917
Died: 9 December 2008
GARDENING, cooking and, of course, family, were the threads which connected Evelyn Frogley to her much-loved Badger...
Fire horror remembered
By Kath GannawayFORESTS Commission employees Charles Demby from Toolangi and John Barling from Pascoe Vale were the first of 71 people to perish in...
Sky the limit for farewell
Above: Mr Jones was joined by By Kath Gannaway
LEAVING school was an uplifting experience for Healesville Primary School principal Howard Jones.
There were tears,...
Looking back at the year that was, the Mail this week takes a look...
POLICE continue their search for missing bushwalker Warren Meyer who went missing on Dom Dom Saddle on Easter Sunday.
YARRA Ranges Shire calls on...
Man killed in bike head-on
By Monique EbringtonTWO motorcycles collided on the Black Spur last Wednesday killing a 49-year-old Mooroolbark man and leaving his 45-year-old wife and a 32-year-old...
From the
By Kath GannawayVICTORIA was in the grip of a hot, dry summer when in the second week of January 1939 the state erupted...
Tourists attacked
By Kath GannawayLILYDALE Criminal Investigation Unit is appealing for witnesses to an alleged assault in Queen’s Park in Healesville in December to come forward.
Senior...
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Family, domestic and sexual violence response bolstered in State Budget
In an otherwise fiscally conservative Victorian Budget for 2024/25, investment in addressing family violence stood out as a key focus of expenditure from the...
