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Recycling concerns

Wellington Shire Council is among dozens of municipalities around the state scrambling to find out how they will be affected by recycling giant Visy’s decision to stop accepting recyclable material.

Down, down, barrier’s down

A SECTION of road barrier erected to show drivers what the roll-out would look like has been taken out by a truck on Wednesday morning.

Traralgon armed robbery

Latrobe Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating an armed robbery in Traralgon early Tuesday morning.

Celebrating 70 years of marriage

Last year it was the Queen and Phil, and this year it’s Sale’s own Brenda and Bill Charnock celebrating the platinum milestone — otherwise known as 70 years of marriage.

Love at first sight

Like the opening of a romance novel, it was “love at first sight” for Bruce Hawkins when he spotted his now-wife Maureen at a St Paul’s youth group in the early 1960s.

NQR is set to close

Sale's NQR store is set to close this Sunday, after the company was placed into voluntary administration.

Starting school, against the odds

For all mothers, sending a little one off to their first day at school is one of those wonderful memories that lasts a lifetime.

A town’s lesson in humanity

On an ordinary corner in Stratford sits the extraordinary Garden for Humanity.

Fundraisers hope for the luck of the Irish

The 60th Maffra Mardi Gras will parade down Johnson St on March 17.

Chester urges funding for next stage of duplication

Gippsland MHR Darren Chester is urging his leader, and the man who took his job, to complete highway duplication works.

Mullungdung fire is under control

A small bushfire at the corner Jeffs Rd and Old Sale Rd, Mullungdung State Forest, was declared under control on Monday morning.

Rabbit bait concerns

School staff, parents and local residents are concerned about a rabbit baiting program in one of Sale’s newer residential estates.

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