29 Dec 10 | Christmas is over, the weather's hotting up and there's still plenty of time with the family to be had.
21 Dec 10 | DEBATE ensued for more than an hour at last week's Yarra Ranges council meeting before a planning application for an open billabong garden and foot spa in Sassafrass was eventually refused.
21 Dec 10 | FOR the first time, Ferny Creek youngster Archie Paterson can personally request gifts from Santa, thanks to his new computerised speech machine.
21 Dec 10 | IT'S been an amazing year for the Weekly. We've seen plenty of changes - including to our name and format - and our commitment to community news has become even stronger.
21 Dec 10 | THE Liberal-National Coalition has stuck to its guns on the pre-election promise to freeze work on a proposed bus lane through the Ringwood Memorial Clocktower site.
21 Dec 10 | A PRIDE of Lions Clubs has stepped in to help deliver an early Christmas present for Belgrave's Jack Mullan, who has cerebral palsy.
21 Dec 10 | THE Lilydale Heights College dart club hit its target late last month with three students taking home medals at the Victorian championships held at Corio.
21 Dec 10 | LILYDALE police sergeant Terry Avery rates his appointment as Yarra Ranges mayor as a life-defining moments.
21 Dec 10 | KILSYTH has bolstered its front court with the signing of former Gardner-Webb University centre Matt Maden for the 2011 South East Australian Basketball League season.
21 Dec 10 | POLICE have been "shocked and disturbed" by catching almost 1500 drink-drivers in Operation RAID which ran throughout the state from November 26 to December 12.
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21 Dec 10 | FOR Croydon volunteer and former Maroondah Hospital patient Heidi Droscher, giving is better than receiving, especially when she is giving back to the hospital.
21 Dec 10 | Ringwood batsman Ben Osborne smashes a delivery high into the sky against Frankston Peninsula.
21 Dec 10 | At the grand old age of five, my son Mack has a limited grasp on the subject of death.
21 Dec 10 | LILYDALE bass player Sam Berry and his Way With Words band mates will swap the pool for a plane ride to the United States this summer.
14 Dec 10 | FUNDING for bike lanes and trails was significantly lower in Maroondah and Yarra Ranges than in inner city municipalities, according to this year's Bicycle Victoria bicycle expenditure index survey.
14 Dec 10 | THE world is his oyster, and the inspiration for Andrew Amos's design for a sculpture in the grounds of Ringwood Secondary College.
14 Dec 10 | MAROONDAH graffiti removalists Mark Brand, Fred Painter and Greg Sealey have their job down to a fine art.
14 Dec 10 | THE Maroondah Education Coalition said "selamat datang" - the Indonesian expression for welcome - to a $40,000 federal grant to help improve its Indonesian languages programs.
14 Dec 10 | RESIDENTS in Melbourne's outer east are being warned to take care on the roads this holiday season.
14 Dec 10 | WHEN Ringwood resident Dorothy Docherty suffered a brain injury at the age of 48, she had to learn how to walk and talk again.