ON A SOAPBOX Remembering Ash Wednesday
On 16 February 1983 at 3.24pm, a bushfire started on Birds Land near Mount Morton Road at Belgrave Heights.
The temperature at 2pm was 40.5...
Ex-journo’s health pivot
As a rural reporter, interviews are rarely quick chats. Tea and coffee are poured, family is met and life stories shared around the kitchen...
What’s On
Trivia night
The Railway Dog in Emerald will be hosting their first trivia night of 2022. To take part, get a team of four and...
Eye spy with my little eye
This is the third mind drawing in the four part series for The Art of Business and Community project for the 2022 What’s On...
Three… festivals this weekend
1. Hot Summer Tour (Mornington)
This tour is bringing rock to regional Australia with a line up featuring Icehouse, The Living End, James Reyne and...
OPINION Travel costs gigantic
I was at the Melbourne International Airport on Sunday 6 February at 6.10am to board QF69 to Delhi, India (scheduled for 9.10am).
I was carrying...
Q and A with Labertouche Primary School principal Christie Bransgrove
Tell us a fun fact about yourself!
I drove a Thomas the Tank Engine train in shopping centres as a part-time job whilst at uni…...
Warriors, Goannas unite
Pakenham’s Cardinia Life Stadium was the place to be on Sunday 13 February as the Pakenham Warriors Big V Mens Basketball team welcomed the...
Looking back this week
30 years to 1992
The Berwick Op Shop was presented with a certificate from the Berwick Fire Brigade in recognition of its ongoing support. Executive...
I spy with my little eye…
This is the second mind drawing in the four part series for The Art of Business and Community project for the 2022 What’s On...
Cars shine at Lang Lang
Spectators flooded the streets of Lang Lang for the annual Show ’N’ Shine and Swap Meet on Sunday 13 February for a jam packed...
Art show winners
Artists from across the district have found success at the 2022 Leongatha Rotary Art and Photography Show.
Now in its 45th year, the show...
‘Total shock’, panicked deer runs wild in autoshop
A Beaconsfield local business had a deer come crashing through their shop this week in a moment that would be hard to believe if...
