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Firefighting reforms passed
Fire service reforms will enhance or destroy the CFA, depending on who you listen to. The Legislative Council, the state’s Upper House, passed the controversial…
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A TRIP you won’t forget
Funerals are confronting, road death and injury are confronting, and, in part, the Teenage Road Information Program (TRIP) is confronting. The combined Knox emergency services…
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Building fire in Upwey deemed suspicious
A fire in Upwey Main Street at the old Upwey motors site is considered suspicious and is being investigated. On 18 June, an advice warning…
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Budget big on education
In recent weeks we handed down our state budget. It is a budget I am incredibly proud of. It includes funding for a number of…
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Warm hearts help in winter
As winter’s chill begins to bite, spare a thought for those who are doing it tough. Cold days and freezing nights make life difficult for…
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A Bright Lot
In 1976, a year after she had finished teaching at a small country school, Upwey writer Greta began to write a memoir recounting her last…
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Celebrating their first
On Sunday 2 June the 1st Kallista Joey-Scout Mob celebrated its first birthday with a party attended by Joeys, Cubs, and Scouts from 1st Kallista…
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CFA members stoked about new truck
Macclesfield CFA volunteers are “stoked” after taking delivery of a brand new fire truck last week. The new 2000 litre fire truck replaces an appliance…
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Charges over hardware swindle
A 38-year-old Mooroolbark man will answer burglary and theft charges over an incident in Lilydale in May. Yarra Ranges CIU detectives appealed for public help…
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Arrest over Monbulk burglaries
Police arrested and charged a man from The Patch over a series of burglaries in the Monbulk area. Sergeant Mark Smithwick from the Yarra Ranges…
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Wandering trad days numbered
Friends groups along Ferny Creek in Upwey are taking on the invasive weed wandering trad. The CSIRO recently released a fungal biological agent to control…
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Q&A with RAPA director Rainsford Towner
What is something people don’t know about you? I never sleep, I just pretend I do, then I complain to people that I’m not getting…
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