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...
EPA hands out fine to East Gippsland Region Water Corporation
Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has fined East Gippsland Region Water Corporation (EGRWC) $9246 for failing to comply with a regulatory notice.
EGRWC began discharging...
We will remember them: A history of Anzac Day
In the early morning darkness of April 25, 1915, about 16,000 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers descended upon the beach shores...
Helping injured Victorians remain independent
COMMUNITY-led programs that boost the confidence and independence of Victorians living with an acquired brain injury (ABI) will benefit from a series of grants...
Council release draft budget
AT Tuesday night’s ordinary council meeting, the draft Wellington Shire 2023/24 budget was unveiled.
Council’s total general rate increase has been capped by the Essential...
Absolute Angus autumn 2023 sale results
Liam Durkin
THEY do say farming is the greatest gamble.
That notion was clearly evident after the Absolute Angus Bull Sale on Wednesday, March 29.
The Autumn...
Building ties with police over a coffee
GIPPSLAND Centre Sale and Sale Police are teaming up to host Coffee with a Cop on Thursday, May 4.
Centre manager Emma Waghorne said the...
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Council meets with Coalition
Wellington Shire mayor Cindy Madeley and council chief executive David Morcom met with the leaders of the state Coalition parties yesterday to advocate for...
