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Beaten with iron bar
By MELISSA MEEHAN UPDATE: Police are putting together the pieces of a serious assault in Yellingbo last night. Lilydale Detective Allan Price said police were…
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Fyffe is new Speaker
EVEYLN MP Christine Fyffe has today been elected unopposed as the 36th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, after current speaker Ken Smith stepped down. Mrs…
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Call for cat free zone
By MELISSA MEEHAN A TWO kilometre feline exclusion zone has been suggested by residents trying to protect lyrebirds in the national park in Sherbrooke. Concerned…
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Works start on popular project
By MELISSA MEEHAN IT’S been a long time coming. Work on the new Olinda Reserve Community Facility is about to start – and will provide…
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Military milestone
By MELISSA MEEHAN SIX months before the start of World War I, 3000 citizen soldiers arrived in Lilydale for combat training. Now 100 years later,…
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Set for career of campaigning
AN EYE-opening volunteering experience in Laos and Cambodia helped 19-year-old Vanessa Gillam firm up her career ambition. The Lilydale teenager is now a step closer…
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Open opportunity
By MELISSA MEEHAN FOR Sebastian Sutterby, the best part of working at the Australian Open isn’t rubbing shoulders with his tennis heroes – it’s being…
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Knitters bid to stitch up Maccas
By MELISSA MEEHAN IT WAS an act of “craftivism”. Three months work of stitching, looping, and knitting. On Thursday the Tecoma Picket Knitters unveiled their…
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McDonald’s set to open soon
By MELISSA MEEHAN WORK is continuing on Tecoma McDonald’s and the store is expected to open early this year. And while those opposing the development…
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Slime slammed
By MELISSA MEEHAN A FAULTY vacuum system is to blame for green water and slime at the Emerald Lake Park swimming pool last week. But…
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Militia remembered
By REBECCA BILLS TWO memorials are set to be unveiled in commemoration of more than 3000 soldiers of the 13th Infantry Brigade arriving at Lilydale…
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Saner counsel prevails
By JESSE GRAHAM OLINDA campaigners have welcomed a “common-sense” approach to saving their closed-down pool, after council committed to speed along the process in last…
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