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School set for learning
By Tania MartinGEMBROOK Primary School’s youngest students are excited about the opening of the new junior learning centre with the completion of stage one of…
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Revellers cop a spray
A GROUP of disorderly Mount Dandenong revellers were dispersed by police using capsicum spray shortly after midnight on Sunday, 28 April. Belgrave Police Sergeant Mick…
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Red light for waste
THE future of a curbside green waste bin service in the Shire of Yarra Ranges is up in the air. In December last year the…
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Staying silent
I REFER to the proposed development on the high side of Main Street in Emerald, near the Beaconsfield Road roundabout. How disappointing to see the…
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Cash down the drain
By Paul PickeringKNOX mayor Jim Penna has hit the streets in a bid to demonstrate the ground-level necessities of the council’s infrastructure renewal strategy. In…
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Takeaway raid on pizza man statue
By Tania MartinEMERALD Police are on the hunt for a group of youths after a six-foot statue of a pizza man was stolen. The statue…
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Showcase for school talent
A PUPPET show, great music and fabulous food promise to be just some of the highlights at this year’s Sherbrooke Community School Festival. The festival,…
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Diamond pair mark 60 years
By Tania MartinMONBULK couple Jack and Dorothy Sykes celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with friends and family last week. The couple first met in 1944…
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Tag clean up backed
By Paul PickeringORGANISERS of an underpass mural say critical press reports have misrepresented the project. The Sunday Herald Sun reported on 15 July that the…
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Raiders conquer Mt Gambier
By Justin NelsonSEABL Men Knox Raiders 22 44 63 86 Mt Gambier 15 39 59 79 Knox Raiders 20 46 73 101 AIS 22 33…
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Emerald slip at Thornton
THE Emerald Football Club ventured, via the Black Spur, to Thornton this week to play 2006 Grand Finalists, Thornton-Eildon. Seniors Thornton-Eildon 18-18-126 d Emerald 9-8-62.…
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Say hello to the police
THE long-waited Olinda Police Station is just weeks from opening, but residents won’t have to wait that long to meet their local policemen. A mobile…