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Runners in training to outdo our Billy
THOUSANDS of runners are preparing to take on their favourite steam-powered rival, Puffing Billy. Entries for the Puffing Billy Great Train Race opened early February…
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Golf course key to Olinda’s future
By PETER DOUGLAS THE Dandenong Ranges community now has the chance to speak up on the future of the former Olinda Golf Course. The Yarra…
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Restoring their honour
DANDENONG Ranges RSL has continued its great work in ensuring the region respectfully honours Anzac history. In what comes after the recent refurbishment of the…
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Community Bank to close
By Peter Douglas THE Olinda and Mount Dandenong communities will soon be without a local Bendigo Bank sub-branch after confirmation of its closure next month. Six…
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Yelled at his ex-partner
By JESSE GRAHAM A BELGRAVE man was handed a fine and a stern lecture after breaching an intervention order against his ex-partner last year, in…
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Safe space showdown
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS GROUPS of activists from both sides of the ‘Safe Schools’ arguments will rally in Belgrave to march to the office of state…
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Gym backs Watson’s lofty goals
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS EMERALD Community Gym at Worrell Reserve has extended a helping hand to a local man with Paralympic ambitions. The non-for-profit community gym…
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Rivals merge to clinch cup
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS AT the beginning of this cricket season, the Under 13s Belgrave South Cricket team had only three members, but a merger with…
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Subdivision plans have Glen Harrow in a jam
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS A PLANNING application for the subdivision of the historic ‘Glen Harrow’ estate in Belgrave will be put through Yarra Ranges Council for…
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Charges laid over crash
VICTORIA Police announced this morning a Healesville woman, 22, has been charged over a fatal crash in Mt Evelyn last year. The crash occurred on…
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Boost for BART
By PETER DOUGLAS EMERALD Lions have kindly sponsored the local SES unit’s extra communications system. BART is a web-based system the local unit uses to…
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No ‘fracking’ way
By PETER DOUGLAS THE Victorian Government will soon make a decision on a return to unconventional gas exploration within the state. But a group of…