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Results open up finals race
SOME surprising round five score lines threw the cat among the pigeons in North Gippsland football at the weekend.This time last week it could...
Festival of female footy
FEMALE football was celebrated on Sunday at the Boisdale Recreation Reserve.Mother's Day marked the start of the season for the Boisdale-Briagolong and Sale women's...
PFAS found in sea lion, fur seals
FIREFIGHTING chemicals have been detected in an endangered sea lion in South Australia and fur seal pups in Victoria.The new research - part of...
VicForests ruling overturned
THE Federal Court has overturned a ruling that VicForests breached federal environmental laws.Last May, environmental group Friends of the Leadbeater's Possum successfully argued VicForests...
Beware MyGov scam emails
THE Australian Taxation Office and Services Australia have issued a warning about a new email impersonation scam that is doing the rounds.The fake emails...
Cold, wet week for Wellington
IT'S been a cold, wet week across Wellington Shire, with weather warnings, winter warmers and wellie boots firmly on the radar for most residents.The...
A big-spend budget to boost COVID recovery
THE 2021-22 federal budget aims to create 250,000 jobs to help Australia recover from the economic hit of the COVID-19 pandemic.The budget also has...
Barrier Breakers building renamed to honour founder
THE seeds of ground-breaking mental health support service Barrier Breakers were sown decades ago, when founder Derek Amos was growing up in the 1950s...
Pfizer coming to Sale
ACCESS to the Pfizer vaccine will soon be offered in Sale to eligible people for the first time.Wellington's first COVID-19 vaccine community clinic will...
Open fireplace to blame for Sale fire
AN open fireplace caused a fire that extensively damaged a Sale home on Tuesday night.Just after 7pm, the Country Fire Authority was notified to...
Sale races transferred
WEDNESDAY'S Sale meeting has been transferred to Pakenham because of wet weather.After the Greenwattle track received 30 millimetres of rain Monday night into Tuesday,...
Gymnasts off to national titles
THREE Maffra Gymnastic Club members have been selected to represent Victoria at the national championships this week. Chelsea Ikin (level five), Tess O'Toole (level...
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‘High risk’ roads in Wellington will be upgraded with new Black...
FOUR "known crash sites" in Gippsland, including two in the Wellington Shire, will undergo improvements through the federal government's Black Spot Program.
Recently, the government...
