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Preps are just getting started

TWO weeks ago Foundation students at Heathcote Primary School celebrated their first 100 days of school. Last week it was Holy Rosary’s turn. Teacher Stephanie Slayter said she was enormously proud of her students and that it was “incredible” to...

Vanessa Wiltshire

12 Aug 2019

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Join the board, it will be good for our health

AFFECTIONATELY known as ’the hospital on the hill’, Heathcote Health has touched thousands since 1859. Perhaps you were born there or know someone who was. Though the hospital no longer offers maternity services, it is a public provider of many...

Vanessa Wiltshire

12 Aug 2019

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Fancy yourself a frontline firefighter?

HEATHCOTE is in the front line of a recruitment drive for new project firefighters (PFF) to conduct important bushfire prevention work in central Victoria. Acting Murray Goldfields district manager Adrian Parker said positions would be based here...

Vanessa Wiltshire

09 Aug 2019

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Both sides have their say in fight over farm safety

THE actions of illegal farm trespassers and a meagre fine was the subject of intense public scrutiny between December 2018 and April 2019. This was compounded by public outcry over activist group Aussie Farms, which runs a website showing the...

Vanessa Wiltshire

09 Aug 2019

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Tellurian takes the awards cake

TELLURIAN took the prestigious Heathcote Saint Martin Wine Show into a new era at the weekend when it produced the first non-Shiraz to win the best wine grown and made in Heathcote award. And it had to defeat its own Shiraz – the Tellurian 2018...

Vanessa Wiltshire

09 Aug 2019

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Saints had few answers for mounts

AFTER the promising performance the week before, the Saints faithful drove to Toolleen expecting a tight game of football against the power-packed Mt. Pleasant combination. Early the team worked hard but it was soon obvious that Mounts were up and...

The McIvor Times

10 Aug 2019