Kyabram News

Kyabram Town Hall to reopen on July 20

AFTER spending nearly four months closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Kyabram Town Hall is now gearing up for its grand return. Set to reopen on Monday, July 20, the hall will have three exhibitions sure to catch the eye: Passions, Journeys and...

Jared Prestwidge

Campaspe kids gear up for three-year-old kinder

THREE-year-old kindergarten is just around the corner for children living in Campaspe Shire, thanks to the Victorian Government’s landmark early childhood education reform. For the first time, local families can enrol their children in...

Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram Water Tank project needs help to hit final goal

NINETY-TWO thousand down, thirty-eight thousand to go. The Kyabram Project Committee’s efforts to bring a splash of colour to the Goulburn Valley Water tank received a huge boost from the Victorian Government last month in the form of an...

Jared Prestwidge

Kyabram Water Tank project needs help to hit final goal

NINETY-TWO thousand down, thirty-eight thousand to go. The Kyabram Project Committee’s efforts to bring a splash of colour to the Goulburn Valley Water tank received a huge boost from the Victorian Government last month in the form of an...

Jared Prestwidge

Twin donkey foals born in Girgarre

A CHRISTMAS in July miracle came to a Girgarre family last Sunday in the form of rare twin donkey foals. The male ‘Kayba’ and the female ‘Clare’, born to 11-year-old jenny ‘Oakey’, were delivered on a pleasant...

Jared Prestwidge

Campaspe Shire opens Rural Tree Scheme for rural landowners

RURAL landowners can now purchase native seedlings for a subsided cost through Campaspe Shire Council’s Rural Tree Scheme. The council’s community general manager Keith Oberin said the scheme was a great way for rural landowners to improve...

Kyabram Free Press

Victoria-NSW border closure to affect Kyabram businesses

STARTING today, Victoria’s border with New South Wales is officially closed.

Jared Prestwidge

Meet Macey, Kyabram’s Top Dog

AMASSING 560 votes and beating out 19 other submissions, one-and-a-half-year-old purebred Labrador Marley has been crowned Kyabram and district’s top dog.

Kyabram Free Press

Indoor Cricket in Kyabram | Looking Back

-Compiled by Eileen Sullivan from the files of the Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram Free Press

Burnt Butter cafe encouraging social interaction with new initiative

BURNT Butter owner Jess Scoble has seen thousands of people come and go through her time at the cafe. And over the past few years she has noticed the steady decline of social activity among her customers, in the shop as well as out on the street...

Jared Prestwidge

Girgarre-Stanhope Rail Trail hits the final stretch

IT’S taken 10 years, countless local volunteers and thousands of dollars, but the Girgarre-Stanhope Rail Trail has entered the final stretch.

Jared Prestwidge

Kyabram Fauna Park welcome new acquisitions

AS the Kyabram Fauna Park came roaring back to life last week, visitors were treated to a first-time meeting with a couple of new faces. The newest residents are a trio of elusive nocturnal quolls from Tasmania, a southern Koala from Barwon Heads...

Jared Prestwidge

McConnell First National Real Estate take out two Diamond awards

THE McConnell First National Real Estate team was recognised for its outstanding achievements at the First National General Excellence and Marketing Awards recently. Usually held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne, the ceremony was instead...

Jared Prestwidge

The Three to One Band | Looking Back

OVER the years dances were extremely popular in the various halls in the area with many bands formed by young enthusiastic musicians. The Three to One Band was formed in 1965 when some of the original members of the Orbits Band had moved on. The...

Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram’s Callum Gleeson takes final bow on The Voice

Callum Gleeson’s journey on The Voice has been cut short. After impressing Delta Goodrem in the blind auditions, the Kyabram superstar was eliminated from the reality television competition during Monday night’s episode.

Jessica Ball

Kyabram and district community groups to share in $30,000 worth of grants

NINE community groups and organisations from Kyabram and district have been delivered a share of over $30,000 by the Campaspe Shire Council’s 2020-21 Community Grants Program. In the Community Support category, $4000 was granted to the Kyabram...

Jared Prestwidge

KDHS joins two regional pandemic plans

KYABRAM District Health Service (KDHS) has jumped on board with two separate regional pandemic plans in a move to better protect residents against subsequent outbreaks of COVID-19.

Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram Fauna Park set to reopen on June 29

AFTER three long months with their backs against the wall, the Kyabram Fauna Park and its staff have weathered the storm of COVID-19 and come out the other side.

Jared Prestwidge

KDHS encouraging residents to drop the booze this Dry July

KYABRAM District Health Service, Tongala Health and Stanhope Health staff are coming together for the Dry July campaign to raise money for cancer research. A fundraiser aimed at social drinkers, Dry July challenges participants to go alcohol-free...

Jared Prestwidge