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Kinder funds flow
By KATH GANNAWAY PRE-SCHOOL educators, parents and kinder kids will benefit from continued pre-school funding announced last week. After almost a year of intense lobbying,…
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Cam has seen the world
BY HELEN COLLIER CAM Mackay has lived in some interesting parts of the world and, wherever he has lived, he has volunteered in some capacity,…
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Vaughan’s on the tongs
BY HELEN COLLIER WHEN you look back across a varied and distinguished career such as Vaughan Hinton’s, the common thread that runs throughout it is…
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Arts day full of colour
BELGRAVE Heights Christian School encouraged its students to get creative last week, holding the ItzAAA festival. No normal classes were run on 4 May as…
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Bowel scan reminder out
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS ROTARY clubs from Belgrave, Emerald and Monbulk districts are urging people to have their bowels tested in May. For the entire month…
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Intensive boost
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS $20m funds for hospital upgrade including state-of-the-art ICU in State Budget… THE Angliss Hospital in Upper Ferntree Gully will receive a new…
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Farm has quilts covered
By KATH GANNAWAY MORE than 40 quilts are set to take centre stage at the 10th Warratina Patchwork Exhibition over the next two weeks. The…
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Combine powers home
By KATH GANNAWAY THE new Upwey-Olinda combined under-16s stormed away with a 133-point lead over Seville on Sunday. On a good Seville ground that held…
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Lenscape
DESPITE some regular downpours over the past few weeks, there have also been patches of relatively mild weather. As such, it’s still been possible for…
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Consider the motives
WITHIN these pages, over about a month, there has been statement and counter-claim about the closure of the CFA’s prime training facility, Fiskville. But there…
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Crossings the priority
IN RESPONSE to Casey MP Tony Smith’s letter to the editor (‘Mail’, 28 May): Sorry, Tony, but the people condemned were the people of metropolitan…
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Race not so great
THE 34th Great Train Race turned into disappointment. Long queues at the intersection of Monbulk-Emerald and Cockatoo-Emerald roads in Emerald had formed. Traffic attendants were…