Fine drop brings home gold
PRESSING grapes at D’Angelo Estate Vineyard in Officer has produced some award-winning wine.
The D’Angelo Estate 2010 Reserve Lady Chardonnay has won a gold medal...
Heart of VCE
THE beginning of a VCE year is a nervous time but it was made a little easier for senior students at St Margaret’s School...
Village in festive spirit
IT MAY have been a hot day, but the warmer weather helped bring out people in droves for the Upper Beaconsfield Village Festival on...
Slasher spark blamed for blaze
A FIRE at a property in Ellis Road, Tonimbuk, burnt six acres as the CFA worked to contain it on Wednesday last week.
The fire...
Rough road is car wrecker
AN OFFICER resident is at her wits' end after damaging her car on the corrugations of her unmade road.
Marilyn Brown has lived in Rix...
Suspicion over fires
WHEN Clint Allen saw 30-foot high flames within 100 metres of his Pakenham home on Monday afternoon, he immediately thought of his cousin who...
Fire chief warns of Ash Wednesday conditions
THE last time the Dandenong Ranges, Macedon Ranges and Otways all burned was on 16 February, 1983 - Ash Wednesday.
But they haven’t burnt to...
Warning bells ring
VICTORIA’S fire chief has warned that the bushfire threat to our communities is similar to that experienced before Ash Wednesday.
As memorial services were held...
Premier leads service dedication
“IT WAS dark, deafening, scary and ultimately tragic as it often is. It was deadly and devastating, it was Ash Wednesday.”
The words of Premier...
Toxic weed mystery
IT STARTED as a sunflower - or so Les Abreheart thought.
The Garfield resident was watching the ‘sunflower’ grow with interest for three months until...
Battle scars
precede:
It was 30 years ago that the Ash Wednesday bushfires ripped through the region, leaving behind a trail of heartbreak and destruction. In the...
In the thick of it
THE Shelton family didn’t lose any loved ones in the Ash Wednesday fires but the loss of their home and business still changed their...
Bunyip’s local cop makes a change
He has seen his fair share of danger on the street for almost 40 years, but Bunyip’s local cop Danny Hower has hardly let...
