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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.

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.

‘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.

Global campaign supported

COUNCILS have thrown their support behind Walhalla's international tourism campaign to help keep the township "on the map".

GippsTAFE to face discrimination allegations

TWO profoundly deaf Auslan tutors claim they were discriminated against by GippsTAFE because of their disability.

Sentence to stay alive

A MOE youth has been sentenced to 12 months at a youth justice centre after a recent spree of criminal activity.

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.

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