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Fabulous flathead – where else but East Gippsland?

January 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Great start to the New Year for youthful Kane Jones of Langwarrin, who caught this fabulous flathead at Bemm River on 2nd January 2010. Kane and his dad, Mark were fishing in the channel. Kane’s catch weighed in at 4.2 kg and measured 87 cm long. Mark & Debbie Jones and family are regular visitors [...]

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Tags: Bemm River · Tourism · Uncategorized

Nowa Nowa exhibition supports Angel Flight.

September 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

On Friday evening 25/9/09 the Nowa Nowa Exhibition of arts & crafts & textiles in support of Angel Flight was opened with a large number of people in attendance. Organised by the “Four sisters & friends’ this year’s event is to raise funds for Angel Flight. After the opening, Peter & Jodie Simpson spoke of [...]

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Tags: Angel Flight free for East Gippsland · Nowa Nowa

Singsong at Mallacoota Mudbrick Pavilion

April 20th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a website about celebrations for Pete Seeger’s Birthday.  We are having a singsong at The Mallacoota Mudbrick Pavilion.  All welcome. http://herringmcfish.wordpress.com/for-petes-sake-sing/ Don Ashby

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Mallacoota is 15th ‘Best Town in Australia’

March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Don Ashby of Mallacoota emailed me today with the news that Australian Traveller had just published its list of the 100 Best Towns in Australia and that two Gippsland towns were in the top 100. Mallacoota was voted 15th and Walhalla was voted 76th. The assessment was based not on where the judges would like [...]

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Third Supermarket for Paynesville

March 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

It appears that the persistent applicant for a third supermarket in Paynesville may at last have Council approval. The proposal has met with vigorous opposition from a broad cross section of the public and has been the subject of appeals to VCAT involving both the Council and private objectors. Many of the objections have been [...]

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Tags: Paynesville

ABC needs back up power for emergency transmissions

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Mallacoota, like many remote and isolated communities, has a very unstable power supply and the supply is very vulnerable to bushfire attack as the line traverses over a hundred Km of dense bush. In response to the considerable concern current in our community of Mallacoota over our inability to receive radio reception during emergency situations [...]

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Local news & events for your town

March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Post and read local news and local events for your town

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Tags: Mallacoota · Paynesville