Month: October 2025

VICTORIA’S Crime Data has been released for the past financial year, and it shows that Murrindindi’s overall crime rate is trending downwards. Criminal incidents were down by 10.2 per cent, with 493 recorded this financial year and 549 recorded in the previous year. The criminal incident rate per 100,000 population was 3141 for Murrindindi, while […]

WHERE do cows come from? It seems like a strange question, but what were the ancestors of today’s bovines? The answer is the wild auroch, a species which existed from the Middle Pleistocene (774,100 years ago to 129,000 years ago) through to the year 1627AD, when the last known auroch died from natural causes in […]

PHILIP Lobley explained that the winery, Philip Lobley Wines, started as “a pipe dream.” He had been working in the wine industry in the Yarra Valley for De Bortolis, and had travelled overseas prior to that for a couple of years on an agricultural exchange program to the United States. On the program, he worked […]

DARREN Cooper purchased the Kinglake Pub on February 17, taking over from John and Helen. While it would be a huge learning curve for many, Darren comes from a hospitality background, having previously worked in pubs and bottle shops around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He also used to own a pizza shop in Boronia. […]

THE Alexandra and District Pony Club held its much-anticipated annual camp on September 21 and 22 with riders, families, and horses gathering at the club’s home grounds for a weekend of activities, laughter, and learning. Saturday afternoon saw children jump straight into mounted games led by instructors Nicky Embling and Sally Hill. With a mix […]

SCOTT Whitehead, president of the Alexandra Cricket Club, has been working hard to develop the new season of cricket in Alexandra. “Obviously there’s a new season of cricket fast approaching, so we’re working hard trying to get all our juniors aligned and everyone signed up before the season starts,” he said. If young people are […]