Jim Fairchild talks second book on local stories – ‘Fewer Curlies – More Characters’
Stefan Bradley
WHAT’S important to a local community? You can say services or infrastructure – but what makes us unique is character. Not just the...
Reader Gallery June 18 2024
Perfect weather in Seaspray. Photo: John Morgan
Sunrise over Seaspray Surf Life Saving Club. Photo: Melanie Tancred
Tree dahlia in bloom, autumn morning. Photo: Melanie Tancred
Autumn...
Yarram’s Wendy Pope celebrates 55 years of service with Australian Red Cross
YARRAM'S Wendy Pope, 90, recently celebrated a mammoth 55 years of volunteering with Australian Red Cross.
Ms Pope first became involved with Australian Red Cross...
Overcoming employment Obstacles
EVERY town has a ‘local business forever supporting its community’ or those ‘inspiring individuals, who we all wonder where they find the time’ according...
Ben Cruahcan Walking Club’s 59th birthday
NOT often do Bushwalkers come upon a birthday party feast atop a mountain.
But that is what occurred on Sunday, June 30.
The Ben Cruachan Walking...
Rabobank Sale branch celebrates 20th anniversary
RABOBANK clients, guests and staff recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the bank’s Sale branch.
The evening’s program included a welcome and thanks from Rabobank...
Letters to the Editor – July 03 2024
Nuclear reality
BRIAN Mawhinney (in a submission to the Latrobe Valley Express Letters, 12/06/2024) uses some unrelated facts and some dubious logic to imply that,...
Shipping container house: out of the box thinking maximises building efficiency
LOCH Sport’s newest home is defying conventionality and challenging what a house can be.
It’s built like LEGO blocks from three shipping containers and takes...
Advice from a mushroom-foraging expert
"NOTHING makes you more of a hypochondriac than being a mushroom forager," according to local mushroom educator, Natasha Vorogushin.
Ms Vorogushin has been practising the...
Ken Lascelles’ 50 years at AG Warehouse
MONDAY, May 20 marked 50 years of service for Ken Lascelles as the farm equipment supplier at AG Warehouse.
Ken’s first role was in May...
ASH engineered timber reaches Collingwood
Philip Hopkins
PROJECTS using Australian Sustainable Hardwoods' (ASH) engineered timber manufactured in Heyfield have excelled in major Victorian architectural awards.
The Berninneit Cultural and Community Centre...
Sale Toastmasters celebrates 10th anniversary
Sale Toastmasters celebrated a decade-long milestone in the Wellington community.
For 10 years it has built the in-person and online skills of public speaking, presentation...
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Suspicious blaze at old Sale police station
Emergency services contained a major fire last Thursday evening at the abandoned former Sale police station on York St, near Lake Guthridge, with a...
