Animal Aid looking for volunteers and more dog and cat adoptions
IT’S raining cats and dogs in Wellington. Animal Aid Sale is once again calling for more animal lovers to give cute and cuddly cats...
Speedcubers prove it’s hip to be square
EARLIER this month (April 15-16) Sale played host to Speedcubing Australia’s fourth annual “Solving in Sale” competition.
Eighty competitors from around the world gathered in...
Mario Bros. prove popular
MARIO'S debut feature is making big money at the box office - both internationally and at home.
Released worldwide earlier this month, The Super Mario...
Support for quality PHN care
Gippsland general practices will be offered one-off grants between $25,000 and $50,000 to expand patient access and improve general practice services.
The federal government has...
Home buyers must be the priority
Shadow Minister for Home Ownership and Housing Affordability, Jess Wilson, strongly advocates that Victorian home buyers must be front and centre in any reforms...
Burn-offs expected in coming weeks
With fire restrictions easing in some parts of the state, and calm autumn conditions, hundreds of private resident burn-offs, agricultural burns and planned burns...
Council adopts updated Child Safety Priority
WELLINGTON Shire Council adopted an updated child safety policy, at last Tuesday's ordinary meeting on April 18,
The council already had a child safe policy...
Chester urges wind farm levy
Philip Hopkins
FEDERAL Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has called on the government to impose a levy on Gippsland's offshore wind farm industry to ensure...
Newcomen add to selection
Ensay stud Newcomen Herefords has expanded their sire selection with premium bulls from Tasmanian studs Valma Herefords and Quamby Plains.
Paying $30,000 and $16,500 for...
Health concern
A series of pollution reports and health and safety concerns from the public has sparked an Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) investigation into allegedly...
Sale Cenotaph: How the ‘Victory Woman’ came to be
Ross Jackson
THE word Cenotaph comes from the two Greek words kenos taphos; translated into English, they have the literal meaning of empty tomb.
As 1920...
Sale Cenotaph’s 99-year history
Tom Parry
SURROUNDED by the walls of the Memorial Hall on Macalister Street is a conspicuous structure known as the Sale Cenotaph.
For close to a...
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Wellington Shire’s new mayor and deputy
The election of councillors Cindy Madeley and Liz Foat as Wellington Shire’s mayor and deputy mayor on Tuesday night marked a historic first for...
