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Murrindindi Shire Council is making application to the State Government for a $391,800 lights project at the Yea Recreation Reserve. Councillors are set vote on Wednesday to consider the application of a Sport Recreation Victoria grant for the oval lighting project. If successful with the $250,000 Government grant, Council will look to approve the allocation
Terry Livy, Secretary of the Alexandra Bowling Club, presented a cheque for $800 to the local Legacy Group at Legacy’s February meeting at the RSL Hall, Alexandra. “The donation was raised by competitors at the annual Shep Morehu competition at the Bowling Club on Thursday, January 16,” Terry said. “Alexandra bowler, Shep More-hu, left $10,000
Murrindindi Council, together with Yarra Energy Foundation and Eko Energy, will donate a 5kW Solar System to a community group. Murrindindi Council’s ‘Dindi Bulk Buy Program’ launched back in April 2018. Since then, some 65 solar systems – totalling a 318 kW of solar power capacity – have been installed on the rooftops of homes
Due to the railway incident near Wallan, there will be changes to regular services on the Seymour, Shepparton and Albury lines today (Fri.), says a Department of Transport ‘alert’. “Due to ongoing industrial action on the V/Line network there may be some cancellations to services on other lines today. In the event of this passengers
Eltham MLA Vicki Ward has thanked organisers at Montsalvat and local artists for the exhibition held in support of the Victorian Bushfire Appeal, with funds managed by the community arm of Bendigo Bank. “At the opening we were privileged to hear from Malcolm Hackett, who is the chair of the board of volunteer directors who
Local councils are calling on community groups and individuals around the region to join in the Australia-wide clean up on Sunday, March 1. Clean Up Australia Day is the nation’s largest community-based mobilisation event. Last year more than 680,000 volunteers removed more than 15,000 ute-loads of rubbish from 6,901 locations across the country. In Murrindindi
The huistory of the ill-fated North-South Pipeline, and the struggles by Yea woman Jan Beer, were highlighted in State Parliament this week. “The north–south pipeline stands as a reminder of how city-centric, arrogant Labor governments have little regard or respect for those living in country Victoria,” Ms McLeish told the Legislative Assembly. “It was 10
Electricity is being restored to approximately 2700 users in the Murrindindi region tonight (Thurs.) after another unplanned outage. A tree over power lines is thought to be the source of the problem. According to Ausnet, the company that operates the ‘hardware’ of the electricity network, 2692 homes were affected by tonight’s breakdown: Acheron (122 customers),
Read the latest 104-page issue of The Local Paper, free, online. T Tuesday afternoon’s storm knocked out the electricity supply at the newspaper office – right on press time. We were unable to restore power supplies in time for our print edition schedule. This means we missed our print and distribution deadlines. This means that
Police are currently in Mangalore following an aircraft collision this morning (Wed.). Emergency services were called to two separate crash scenes east of the Mangalore airfield about 11.25am. It is believed two aircraft have collided mid-air before crashing. Two occupants in each aircraft have died at the scenes. The four persons are yet to be
