Month: August 2024

WENDY Lee Jacobs was born in Randwick NSW on August 20, 1924, the only child of musical director Henry Osborne Jacobs and dancer Violet Lucie Maud Bishop. Given her parents’ occupations, her life was spent in and around theatres and theatrical people, and due to their evening work hours and travel, her grandmother M’liss Martha […]

IT was an anxious wait to see if the weather was going to hold off for the 15 and Under Netball Grand Final at King’s Park Seymour. The Tigers had won through and after a week of rest were looking forward to hitting the court again. The Seymour Lions had been building all season and […]

LAST Sunday the Alexandra Football Netball Club teams played in the grand final round in the Goulburn Murray Junior League, with finals played at Kings Park in Seymour. Football Under 12 Alexandra 2.0 – 12 defeated by Wandong 4.9 – 33 The club says well done to coach Ben Broadway, support staff, players, parents and […]

THE Buxton Progress Association (BPA) are conducting a survey to help assess local support for moving the 60km/h signs on Maroondah Highway, at the northern end of the township, further north. The township has grown to the north and there are now driveways and two other intersections outside the current 60km/h zone. Concerns have been raised […]

NOELLA Bannon is the new Senior Sergeant (officer in charge) for Murrindindi, and will also be undertaking the Municipal Emergency Response Coordinator (MERC) role. Noella grew up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and has had property in Murrindindi Shire for about 15 years. She’s been a member for Victoria Police for almost 33 years, […]

MURRINDINDI’S acting Paramedic Community Support Coordinator, Craig Beamish, spoke about some of the challenges faced by local paramedics in providing support to the Murrindindi community, as well as ways that we can all help. In the Hume area in the first quarter of this year, there have been 5623 code one (emergency) callouts. Across the […]

THE Yea Wetlands Discovery Centre celebrated its 10th year of operation on Wednesday, August 14 at a function at the centre. Over 60 attendees including representatives from Murrindindi Shire Council led by Mayor Damian Gallagher and attended by many of the Volunteers who have strongly supported the mantra of providing friendly knowledgeable tourism information covering […]

THREE extraordinarily successful fundraising events, most recently last Friday night’s inaugural Pink @ Pixies, have raised more than $14,400 in Eildon to aid the work of the Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA). The first High Tea at Morning Mist contributed $2200, the Biggest Morning Tea in June added more than $6200, and Pink @ Pixies […]

THE weather forecast suggested that it would be a wet day for golf on Saturday but the misty rain in Marysville didn’t progress to the predicted heavy rain and golfers were able to complete the 18 holes in fairly comfortable conditions. The ladies played stableford and the winner was Gail Leigh (10) with 34 points. […]

WHILE Olympians often capture our imagination, it’s local athletes like Levi Campbell who truly inspire us. At the recent Little Athletics Victoria State Championships Cross Country event, Levi, competing in the first age group of the day, gave it his all and finished an impressive 12th. The Murrindindi Little Athletics club extends its congratulations to […]