CFA chief officer, Steve Warrington, has highlighted the need to prepare properties as the state moves towards a fire season that in some areas will be more severe than normal.CFA has this week announced the first municipality to enter the Fire Danger Period this season will be East Gippsland Shire, fire restrictions starting at 1am on Monday, September 23.Other parts of Victoria will follow in...

Council has unanimously endorsed a submission against the Draft Marine and Coastal Policy, proposed by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.“This draft policy is probably the worst bit of work I’ve seen in the 11 years I’ve been on council,” councillor Maryanne Pelz said at council’s monthly meeting on Tuesday.“That a policy like this should come before us, it’s a very...

The Bairnsdale RSL Sub-Branch is holding a short wreath laying service at Beaufort Memorial Gardens at 11.30am this Sunday to recognise veterans of recent conflicts.The RSL is expecting a good number of local contemporary veterans and their families to attend and enjoy mateship at the RSL afterwards.Since the end of the Cold War, some 40,000 members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have...

“It has been a really good year”.East Gippsland Football Netball League president, Andrew Powell, is thrilled with how the 2019 season panned out. “Getting Boisdale Briagolong in the senior grand final for the first time is fantastic,” he said.“It is the first time its seniors have made the finals since coming in. It is really for the league that they are having success.“The seniors and reserves...

Bairnsdale police officer, Amy Frost, headed to Mount Buller as a Victoria Police representative to assist with the Multiclass Interschools and Special Olympics Vic State Winter Games.This engagement was part of the work that the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) committee have been doing to support athletes with an intellectual disability, being the first winter games that LETR Victoria have...