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SES battered by calls
Wild winds battered the Dandenong Ranges last week bringing flooding and power outages to the region.
On Friday, 10 August, Emerald SES...
Big step towards work
New work boots will help Cire Community School students to kick open doors to future employment.
James Simon from Port Melbourne-based Workwear Group handed over...
Give it to the firefighters
That dinner set you got for Christmas that’s not your style?
Take it to the Mount Evelyn Fire Brigade.
That goes for the second toaster you...
A practically perfect show
Yarra Hills Secondary College students will be bringing the magic of Mary Poppins to life.
They’ll perform Mary Poppins Junior at the school’s Mount Evelyn...
Q&A with Mark Menze, CEO of Animal Aid
What is something people don’t know about you?
As a teenager I had a fledgling acting career and did extras work on Neighbours. I’m sure...
‘Quirky’ hotel for valley visitors
A new 170-room, six-storey hotel is set to rise from a former petrol station site in Lilydale.
Barnes Capital director Martyn Barnes said the complex...
Smash a Parma and help a farmer
Australians love smashing a parma at the pub and now just by eating your favourite pub meal you can help drought-affected farmers.
Call it putting...
Celebrating 100 years of art
The Twenty Melbourne Painters Society (TMPS) was established in 1918 with the view of mounting annual exhibitions of members’ work.
Ten decades later the...
The house that Maxa built
A passive eco home in Kallista was awarded the Best Energy Efficient Design at the 23rd Building Designers Association of Victoria (BDAV) Building Design...
Defibs for Upwey and Belgrave
Chemists in Upwey and Belgrave are now armed with defibrillators.
The Dandenong Ranges Community Bank Group launched its Special Defibrillator Sponsorship program this month by...
Body found in Belgrave
Police will prepare a report for the Coroner after the body of a man was found in Belgrave on Wednesday 8 August.
They were called...
Commemorating Kokoda
It has been 76 years since Australian forces fought a series of battles along the Kokoda trail to try and hold back advancing Japanese...
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‘Tokenistic’ funding not enough to support ‘overwhelming’ legal service demand
The handing down of the Federal Budget came with a wave of disappointment for community legal centres with only a fraction of the required...
