Improving understanding
MANAGING utility bills amid other financial pressures, a barrage of information and persuasive door-to-door salespeople is challenging enough for most people, but for newly-arrived migrants, it can be a completely new experience.
NDIS forum
GIPPSLANDERS have been invited to a free public information session on the National Disability Insurance Scheme and mental illness in Drouin next Wednesday.
Be wary of fake phone calls
GIPPSLAND Water customers have been warned to be wary of fake phone calls from people posing as government representatives enquiring if they had received "water saving devices" from their local water authority.
Slide destroyed in fire
COMMERCIAL Road Primary School is the latest target in a spate of deliberately-lit fires across Morwell in the past month.
Coalville fire blacked out
AN 80 hectare fire in the Coalville area impacted 10 properties, but no building damage was reported.
‘Whale’ regains control
In September last year, Morwell's Michael Crofts was battling "severely morbid obesity", and held grave fears he would not see his five year-old daughter reach high school.
Increasing options, improving outcomes
ON the surface, the Increasing Women's Options course may appear to be just another offering at the Traralgon Neighbourhood Learning House, but to the 20 women who have been through, it has also been about finding themselves again after becoming everything to their families.
Carers go mobile
AS a part of the fundraising project undertaken to establish a Gippsland Regional Carers Network, the Traralgon Lions Club has donated two laptop computers and a portable digital projector to the Gippsland Carers Association.
Art prize for youth
THE 2013 Wellington Youth Art Prize exhibition, a new and exciting competition for young people aged 12 to 25 years living in the Wellington Shire, has been announced.
Speeding drivers catching on
DRIVERS are getting the message not to speed on Latrobe Valley's back roads since regular police operations began last year.
Gippsland fire continues to burn
THE Aberfeldy fire, which has been burning for more than a month, has devastated almost 85,000 hectares of land in Gippsland.
No use to wildlife ‘if we’re dead’
A RAWSON wildlife carer has hit out at an animal welfare organisation over claims fire authorities have unfairly shut rescuers out of the Aberfeldy fire ground.
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Major milestones reached
NETBALL
BY BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
GIANT milestones have been reached in the North Gippsland Football-Netball League in recent weeks.
Glengarry Football-Netball Club celebrated the monster 38-year-and-counting career of...
