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Sportswomen needed
Gembrook Cockatoo Football Netball Club are seeking women who are interested in playing an open age women's team for next year.
Players of all...
Turning the pages of sporting history
About 100 years ago Monbulk won its football premiership, but the club was forced to go to court to do so.
In 1919, Ferny Creek...
Full steam ahead
After being closed for 250 days, Puffing Billy will return to the tracks on Saturday 28 November as metropolitan Melbourne continues to take gradual...
The Yarra Ranges pauses to remember
RSL’s across the nation paused at 11am on Wednesday 11 November to commemorate Remembrance Day, marking the 102nd anniversary of the Armistice that ended...
Casey ‘model’ for export
Ex-councillor Sam Aziz has revealed an attempt with Jim's Mowing founder Jim Penman to “take over” Yarra Ranges Council with a like-minded group of...
Get to know your local wildlife
As Nikki Rae runs her own native wildlife shelter from her Selby residence, it’s certainly not your typical hills house.
Her living room, and sometimes...
Mum’s iso project makes history
A mother’s documentation of the Covid-19 pandemic will now go down in local history, in the form of a book.
When the pandemic first hit...
The Round-up
Hoons be gone
An ongoing effort to stamp out hoon driving in parts of the Yarra Valley is starting to produce results, according to local...
Hitting a high note
A Sherbrooke doctor has spent most of this year lifting the spirits of himself and others, by performing a song and posting it online...
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International Day of People With Disability
Yarra Ranges Council is hosting a free online event to celebrate the International Day of People With Disability (IDPwD).
Keynote...
A spectacular achievement
Students from numerous schools throughout the Yarra Ranges will take part in this year’s new-look Victorian State Schools Spectacular.
This year’s show will look vastly...
The Round-up
Charges following Mooroolbark death
Homicide Squad detectives have charged three people following the death of a man in Mooroolbark last year.
A 19-year-old Yellingbo man, a...
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Getting ready for bushfire
As the Dandenongs and Yarra Valley enter the pointy end of the fire danger period, local brigades have ramped up their community engagement activities.
This...
