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The Diocese of Sale this week confirmed the future of the historic Sion convent building in Sale is still yet to be decided.

Yarram's current health care crisis has turned the spotlight on Victoria's chronic regional and rural GP shortage and the need for bipartisan government support.

'Nambrok', the historic rural estate perched on the hill just east of Rosedale, has hit the property market for a cool $20 million.

St Mary's Primary School, Sale, students sang during a service last Thursday to bless new renovations at the 150-year-old school.

A former Gippsland Grammar school teacher has escaped jail after a judge handed him a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, for sexually assaulting a boy on a school camp.

They say to never smile at a crocodile, but the students at Wurruk Primary School couldn't keep the smiles off their faces when Snappy the two and a half year old salt-water crocodile visited the school last week.

Students from across the region took part in a model United Nations caucus recently, with pupils from Sale College, Traralgon College, Yarram Secondary College and Kurnai College, Morwell, gaining insights into how issues are debated and resolved on an international scale.

Stratford and District Neighbourhood Watch has a proud 28-year tradition of making the town's streets just that little bit safer.

A brass altar cross, lectern Bible and large prayer book were stolen at the weekend when Boisdale's St George's Anglican Church was broken into.

Gippsland MHR Darren Chester has again vowed he will continue to push to have the entire $132 million in federal Princes Highway duplication funding allocated to the most dangerous section at the Kilmany overpass to get work moving again.

The reason road shoulders adjacent to roadside barriers between Stratford and Sale and Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance are at four metres - but only three metres between Stratford and Bairnsdale - is because of "environmentally sensitive vegetation" that exists on the middle stretch of highway, according to state Roads Minister Jaala Pulford.

Catholic College Sale celebrated the blessing and opening of the Notre Dame de Sion Learning Centre and refurbishment of the St Patrick's building on Friday, which includes newly-renovated learning areas and a new administration area, as well as a lift.