Community News

Craig Lloyd has had a 15-month dream run as Chief Executive Officer of Murrindindi Shire Council. It is the type of political honeymoon that other local government leaders dream about. Craig Lloyd led Councillors to a 180-degree turnaround for Shire affairs, especially in matters of perception and presentation, from the “bad old days” in the

Murrindindi Shire Council has created another public relations disaster … this time with its Planning Unit’s Karen Girvan ordering a Yea district couple to cease selling wood-fired pizzas from a van at the old Glenburn Hotel site. Within hours of The Local Paper breaking the story online on Wednesday (Mar. 13), more than 280 local

Members of the Yea and District Historical Society are at odds over the future of Carters Milk Bar, which the Society is aiming to purchase for a Museum. Late last week, Society President John Bett phoned the newspaper office and gave an interview to The Local Paper, in which he said the Society would bulldoze

5.50pm Sunday Update: A ‘Watch and Act’ advice has been issued for people in the Tarcombe-Avenel area, north-east of Yea: This Watch and Act replaces the Advice issued at 2.20pm. The Watch and Act is for people located along Tarcombe Road, north and east of Callan Range and Wickets Hill Road from Tarcombe Road to

Click on the link to read the latest 84-page issue of The Local Paper.

Welcome to Dindi Daily for Wednesday, February 20. Yes, it’s Wednesday. And the latest 84-page issue of The Local Paper is out now. Read about the Senator who is saying ‘Sorry’. And discover about the launch of Dindi TV. Works are about to kick off on the Yea Railway Reserve Playground on Friday next week.

Weather for Sunday: Cloudy. Alexandra 16-32° Eltham 17-29° Healesville 18-30° Kinglake 16-28° Marysville 16-28° Whittlesea 13-28° Yea 16-32°

12.35pm Tuesday: Two fire-fighting appliances are on their way to a building fire at Happy Hollow, Plenty.