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Old school ties

Despite being born a century apart, Emerald Primary School and the Ranges Trader are united through time as well as in print. In November 1979,...

Four decades of news

PRECEDE For the past four decades, The Ranges Trader Mail has been at the forefront in bringing the community’s hot issues, triumphs and tragedies to...

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,...

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Emerald builder suspended by VCAT over safety concerns

Emerald builder Andrew Donald Little, the applicant in this case, has had his request to lift a suspension imposed by the (respondent) Victorian Building...