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Toongabbie has finished the Traralgon and District Cricket Association 2017/18 home and away season in style with a thrilling one-wicket win over powerhouse Ex Students in round 13.

Morwell run machines Mark Cukier and Blake Mills have teamed up to ensure Morwell finished the home-and-away season in emphatic style, with the pair bringing up centuries.

LATROBE Valley will be playing a whole new football game as not-for-profit agency Reclink Australia creates a league made up of the community's most vulnerable and isolated people.

Morwell Recreation Reserve was awash with nostalgia at the weekend when some of the cricketing heroes of yesteryear came to town to play in the Australian Cricket Association Masters Twenty20 clash against a Latrobe team comprised of representatives from the region's two leagues.

The Traralgon and District Cricket Association has avoided relegation at Melbourne Country Week after a crushing win over Ballarat in the elimination final in provincial grade while the Central Gippsland Cricket Association has been promoted to division two after it finished runner-up in division three.

A quartet of the Latrobe Valley's most promising young sparrers competed at the Victorian Youth Boxing Championships in Melbourne last week and did the region proud.

Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath has called on the state government to help fund a security and CCTV overhaul of Morwell's central business district.

Gippsland farmers are being encouraged to jump on board a burgeoning local industrial hemp co-operative to be launched in Morwell next month.

Nationals leader Peter Walsh says he has held discussions with power companies which have revealed they are interested in building a new coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley "if the policy settings are correct".

A Traralgon vet has reminded pet owners to vaccinate their cats early to prevent them contracting viruses spread by stray cats.

Baw Baw Shire has confirmed its interest in buying the former Yarragon school site following a passionate plea from the community for the land to be used for the benefit of the community.

The Tyers Hall committee is calling on the community for names of people in the Tyers area who have served in wars and conflicts over the years.