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Let’s fight nets
By CASEY NEILLHILLS platypus protectors are stepping up their fight against opera house nets, and have received some cash to help. In April the Mail…
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Show your support
AUSTRALIA’S Paralympians need letters of support to strive for gold in London – including Ferntree Gully’s own Madeleine Hogan. The 23-year-old will compete in the…
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Salvaging history
By RUSSELL BENNETTSOME of the most defining chapters in Gembrook’s history still lay in a pile of rain-soaked rubble, months after a giant pine came…
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Vow to succeed
By EMMA SUNTHERE was not a dry eye in the room when Kallista’s Hanna Mitchell said her wedding vows to her husband Rob last year…
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Kindy kids size up school
By CASEY NEILLTINY Olinda Primary School has a big idea for smoothing the transition from kinder to prep. Teacher Cornelia Sheeran last year developed a…
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Keep on truckin’
By EMMA SUNA FORMER Mount Evelyn CFA captain has become one of four in Victoria to have a fire truck named after him. Ken Reed,…
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View to be killed
By CASEY NEILLA NEW high-rise proposed for Ferntree Gully Village will destroy views of the hills and must be stopped, according to resident Graham Crichton.…
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Change to channels
ANALOG television will be switched off in Monbulk on 12 September to make way for new digital TV services. The switch is happening more than…
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Crashes prompt warning
By EMMA SUNA STRING of accidents in Mount Evelyn in six days has prompted the CFA to issue a warning for all motorists to be…
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Search for uni facts
By MARA PATTISON-SOWDENYARRA Ranges Council has responded to the pleas of Swinburne’s Lilydale students by planning a community meeting in coming weeks to discuss the…
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Council identifies region’s taxi failings
By MARA PATTISON-SOWDENCARE for the customer is the most important factor lacking in the Victorian taxi industry, according to Yarra Ranges councillors. They are backing…
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Business gets a new champion
MONBULK Business Network has a new president and plenty planned to help boost the town’s trading. John Coleman owns the Reiki Healing Centre on Monbulk-Silvan…