Rally against CFA cuts continue
Morwell firefighters are enduring an unsafe working environment in a station plagued with drainage problems, despite flagging the issue with management 12 months ago.
Yogurt turns heads
MANGO became the flavour of the year last Monday, with a Traralgon-produced yogurt taking out the Champion Flavoured Yogurt award at the 2013 Australian Grand Dairy Awards.
Lakes residents give back
LIVING up to the honour of being Australia's most charitable community, according to NAB's Charitable Giving Index, a group from Lakes Entrance recently handed over a cheque for more than $10,000 to the Gippsland Rotary Centenary House.
Four steps for life
NEWS cardiac arrest survival rates for rural Victorians had risen dramatically was welcomed by State Health Minister David Davis as he launched the new 'Four Steps for Life Plus' program in Traralgon on Friday.
Funding to strengthen Latrobe
LATROBE Regional Hospital has secured $700,000 through a State Government grant for a new purpose-built home for its ambulatory sub-acute services.
Blowout ‘inevitable’
A BLOWOUT in Latrobe Regional Hospital's elective surgery waiting lists over coming months is inevitable in the face of a $2.2 million revenue cut from the Federal Government.
Green light for supported housing
LENGTHY bureaucratic delays threatening a proposal for Latrobe Valley-based supported ac com modation for people with a mental illness were finally resolved last week.
Bureaucratic blockade
BUREAUCRATIC challenges have been blamed for the 18 homes which remain unbuilt after being destroyed in the 2009 bushfires which swept through the region.
Show extravaganza
WHIPCRACKING and a Friday night fireworks extravaganza underscored this year's Traralgon show, which wrapped up on Saturday afternoon at the Traralgon Showgrounds.
Police hunt Salvos swindler
A FORMER Latrobe Valley conman who has been missing for three years is wanted by police after he allegedly stole a blank cheque book at the Traralgon Salvation Army after the 2009 bushfires.
More carriages headed this way
THE State Government's confirmation it has contracted the construction and roll out of 40 new V/Line carriages will have guaranteed benefits for Latrobe Valley commuters, regardless of how few trains are dedicated to the Gippsland line, a V/Line spokesperson has assured.
A confronting profession
WHEN a Queen Victoria Market green grocer tasked his son with shaking out and folding vegetable sacks decades ago, he had inadvertently delivered his child a belated death sentence.
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Traralgon hosts state championships
TABLE TENNIS
By KATRINA BRANDON
TOUGH games were fought at the 74th annual Table Tennis Victorian Country Championships on the King’s Birthday long weekend (June 6-8).
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