Town changes, but gardens remain timeless
In the past 40 years, Emerald has developed from a quiet rural town into a thriving South-eastern suburb of Greater Melbourne.
Emerald is a town...
Poetic justice in phone box return
They hover by doorways in hospitals and retirement villages. They lurk on shady street corners, vacant and ignored. They gaze forlorn over coastal foreshores,...
Athletes celebrate 50 years
The Yarra Ranges Athletics Club (YRA) celebrated its 50th anniversary at Eastern Golf Club in Yering on Saturday night.
Over 100, athletes, coaches, officials and...
40 years of local news coverage
If there’s one person who knows how events have shaped the Yarra Ranges over the past 40 years, it’s Sue Thompson.
The president of the...
Sound of music rings across the dandenongs for 40 years
In 1985, the mimicry of lyrebirds was overtaken by the voices of hundreds of schoolchildren recovering from bushfires that had devastated parts of the...
Bright minds of Sherbrooke make life better and keep us safer
Year 9 and 10 students at Sherbrooke Community School have once again proved their technical prowess at the regional Thales Design tech Competition.
Jem Toland,...
Ted’s not so excellent adventure
Firies in Macclesfield and Emerald SES completed a daring rescue of a doggo in distress, after it got stuck down a wombat hole on...
Halloween high note
The Halloween on the Green event, organised by the Philanthropic Collective at Ferny Creek has once again exceeded expectations.
This year’s event raised $10,500, all...
Turning over a new page after 31 years
A library is only ever as good as the people that work there, so it’s no wonder that the Belgrave Library has become such...
Kids leading the way to transform toilets
Plastered on the walls of the toilets at Monbulk Primary School are the words “there’s no limit to what you can do”.
On another door,...
The leading ladies at 1812
Leading ladies at 1812 theatre is a hilarious take on the movie Some like it hot.
According to director Pip Le Blond, Jack and...
Pranks hit Billy’s puff
Puffing Billy has been the butt of many pranksters’ jokes over the years - literally.
But, in November 1979 it was anything but funny.
As the...
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Platy-yes! An evening of all things platypus at Birdsland
The chance to immerse into the curious world of the platypus and discover some citizen science along the way is available for Yarra Ranges...
