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District football leagues, including North Gippsland and East Gippsland, will have under 17s competitions if the recommendations of an AFL Gippsland review are adopted.

A landmark agreement between Gunaikurnai land owners and the state government was signed at Stratford’s Knob Reserve at the weekend, to guide the joint management of 10 parks and reserves in Gippsland.

The new roundabout in Rosedale on the Princes Highway is officially open.

Sale Memorial Hall is set for a facelift, with funding secured to help modernise the building, which will fund the introduction of heating and cooling, acoustic panels, a public address system and asbestos removal.

Farmers and industry representatives at last Tuesday’s Farming for Success conference in Sale heard how in times of crisis, some Gippsland farmers achieve success by thinking outside the square on value adding, innovation, emerging markets, and “growth agriculture”.

Immediate cash injections, alternative feed sources and cutting red tape on pest control and welfare assistance were some of the main concerns of Gippsland’s drought-affected families, state Agricultural Minister Jaala Pulford heard when she spoke to farmers at Bengworden on Tuesday.

Farmers have been given “conflicting” information and advice regarding PFAS, according to Erin Brokovich.

Police are on the look-out for a restored HK ute that was stolen from a property in Munro last weekend.

Eleven Wellington Shire property owners were each fined an average of $1600 and more than $500 in costs for failing to clear their blocks.

Sale Memorial Hall will be refurbished and modernised to help attract major events and increase usage of the facility, with Wellington Shire Council receiving a $486,538 grant under the Latrobe Valley Authority’s Community Facility Fund.

A subsidiary of ExxonMobil has begun an offshore exploration drilling program in the Gippsland Basin to search for new sources of gas.

A driver who pleaded not guilty after being caught speeding in Rosedale last year failed to have his fine quashed, after the court found that he did not raise “reasonable doubt” about his guilt.