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...

Students from Bairnsdale Secondary College were recently given a special insight into what it feels like to be a university student studying in Melbourne’s CBD.As part of a unique, ongoing partnership between children’s education charity, The Smith Family and RMIT University, nine students got a taste of city university life.The students, from years 10 to 12, which included both Aboriginal and...

Less than five hours after entries opened for the Alpine Rally of East Gippsland, the field limit of 105 cars and 20 reserves has been reached.All entries were received online with no issues through a system developed for organisers, the Historic Rally Association of Victoria. Entries have been received from every state and territory in Australia.“With more than 300 registrations of interest...