Posts in: Wooragee
Picking up the pieces
A FIERCE two-day period of rain last Thursday and Friday flooded streets, waterways and houses.
Gaffney back in top job
INDIGO Shire council welcomed a new, but familiar, face as mayor on Tuesday night after a draw from a hat. Cr Bernard Gaffney was elected…
Driving Easter frustration
THE failure of motorists over the Easter weekend to adhere to warnings has disappointed local police.
Indigo religious affiliation wanes
THE number of people professing Christian religious beliefs or affiliation in Indigo Shire has fallen almost 6.6 per cent between Australian census statistics collected in…
Mountaingrass migration
AUSTRALIASIA’S peak bluegrass and old-time music festival, Mountaingrass, will relocate from Harrietville to Beechworth in November.
Cousins and Marisa sing up
BEECHWORTH leading edge musicians The Kissin’ Cousins, Marisa Quigley and Her Sunday Best and Black Magic will perform in the fifth Beechworth Music Festival this…
Court refuses Stanley appeal
A WATER wholesaler will petition for costs after the Appeal Court yesterday refused a Stanley organisation’s attempt to prevent groundwater being taken and sold as…
Rebuilding Burke
INDIGO’S newly-appointed heritage manager has foreshadowed a major refurbishment next year of the story of colonial police inspector Robert O’Hara Burke.
Town title delivers triple win
BEECHWORTH has been named Victoria’s tidy town of the year for 2017 – a title it has held on three occasions – at a presentation…
Price elected deputy unopposed
A FIRST-year councillor who is just 25 has been elected Indigo’s deputy mayor.
Burke scores high-stringed pair
GUITARIST brothers Slava and Leonard Grigoryan will present an intimate concert for just 60 people at Beechworth’s Burke Museum on December 1.
Refugees seed rural transformation
A WIMMERA couple whose work with Karen refugees transformed Nhill will talk in Beechworth on November 30 about the dramatic effects of such collaboration.
