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Ask most bowlers across the planet what their favourite cricket memory is and there is a good chance they will reply a hat-trick or what they dream of and it will also be a hat-trick.

Under pressure, early learning centres across the Wellington Shire have closed their doors and locked them as Gippsland's early childhood education and care sector faces an unprecedented increase in demand for childcare while simultaneously dealing with a national shortage of teachers and educators.

Sale businesses are struggling to stay afloat as the Omicron wave swells COVID cases to an all-time high, washing widespread fear and trepidation throughout the local community.

Wellington Shire Council is urging the public to avoid coming into contact with the water in Lake Guyatt in Sale, due to a blue-green algae bloom.

For residents on Warrigal-Toms Creek Rd in Newry, their fight for improvements to the surface of their road with council will enter its 19th year in 2022.

New density quotients were announced for hospitality and entertainment venues today, as well as changes to rapid antigen testing requirements.

The Fire Danger Period (FDP) for Wellington starts at 1am on Monday, January 10 and will be enforced until an end date is provided by the Country Fire Authority (CFA).

Police are investigating a fatal head-on collision in Myrtlebank on Monday afternoon.

Sale Senior Citizens' Club is set to enter a co-tenancy with another senior group, Sale U3A, from February — but not everyone is happy with the new arrangement.

Josh FarrellRosedale residents are enduring a spate of chicken thefts over the previous months as the price of laying hens climbs dramatically.

THREE children have been rescued from a Glenmaggie riverbank by airwing overnight, after their inflatable donut was swept away in the Macalister River.Police understand the children, from the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, were staying with family at a Gells Road campground when they launched an inflatable donut into the Macalister River about 7pm.The inflatable got caught in the flow of the river and was taken downstream, and eventually caught on a rock.The trio, aged 15, 13 and 10-years-old, were all able to climb onto the opposite riverbank.They walked upstream until they could see their campsite across the water but due to difficult terrain couldn’t leave the area.Police also couldn’t make their way to the children on foot and family members were unable to reach them due to swift flowing water and slippery rocks.Local police attended, along with the Water Police and Airwing to coordinate the rescue.All three children were safely rescued by the airwing and reunited with their families, and no-one was injured.

Gippsland Region Public Health Unit is currently managing 340 positive COVID cases throughout Gippsland.