Opinion
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Lenscape
LOYAL ‘Mail’ reader Michelle White recently snapped this heart-warming picture at a property in Dixons Creek, which she said best illustrates country living in this…
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Due place for top apprentices, trainees
By Tony Smith IN 2009, I initiated the Casey Apprentice/Trainee of the Year Awards to recognise, reward and encourage careers in local trades and small…
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Lenscape
IT’S not every day you come across a sunset quite like this one. Rod Thom captured this incredible photograph of a sunset from Toolebewong road…
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Remember the walking wounded
WITH the fanfare of the Anzac Centenary now done and dusted, it can be easily forgotten that our recently returned soldiers continue to fight many…
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Timber Release Plan
‘MAIL’ readers may have seen an unattributed ad last week which made reference to VicForests’ Timber Release Plan (Mail, 7 July, page 2). In response…
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Wake up, road users
I DON’T want to pick fights and, in my preamble, I concur that Healesville drivers are exceptionally polite, so it is relaxing to drive in…
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Lenscape
‘MAIL’ reader Kennith Woodworth captured this beautiful image of yet another inspiring sunset at Millgrove recently. Despite the cooler months now setting in, there fails…
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Amendment wrong approach
I AM writing in response to the ‘Mail’ article (“Intense ‘free range’ heat”, 2 June, page 5). Currently in the Shire of Yarra Ranges you…
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‘Op’ shops tops
WHAT a great article on the Adcare Opportunity Shop, telling of sharing their ‘profits’ between several Yarra Valley schools. I thought it was a terrific…
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Walkway a wonderful result
I KNOW Archdeacon Gail Pinchbeck (Anglican and Uniting Church minister), who fell and was injured badly on the Warburton Brisbane Bridge in 2013. In complaining…
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Spokesman surprise
I WAS surprised to see in the ‘Mail’, Geoff Biggs of Toolangi presented as a spokesman for the community. In the 1990s, Geoff was a…
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Fracking exposure salutary
I WOULD like to thank Jeanette McRae for warning us of the possibility of mineral exploration within our area. I am absolutely appalled by the…