A Decade Of Rainbows—Rainbow Lorikeet Tops The 10th Annual Aussie Bird Count

In early November BirdLife Australia, leaders for bird conversation in Australia, revealed the preliminary results for the Aussie Bird Count. With more than 420,000 counted, the colourful Rainbow Lorikeet once again comes out on top, beating the Noisy Miner with nearly 220,000 and the iconic Australian Magpie with around 154,000 counted. In total, over 80,000 […]

Goodbye From Galston Veterinary Clinic’s Andrew Miller

“It is with great sadness, but it is also exciting looking forward, that I would like to announce my retirement. It has been a wonderful privilege to be part of Galston Veterinary Clinic, able to provide my services to the local and not so local community over the last 34 years. Over the years I […]

Farewell Laura Jane

BY KARLENE BRUMMER Laura Jane Waltisbuhl, of Laura Jane Hair at Glenorie is leaving the area after more than a decade of owning and running her very successful business. Laura opened her Salon in July 2010 within the Glenorie Village Complex and around eight years ago she moved to the premises next door joining with […]

Thomas James Bridge Update

BY KARLENE BRUMMER Work is well and truly underway to repair the historic 1830’s Thomas James Bridge, and surrounding landscape on Settlers Road, Wisemans Ferry. The area around the site of the bridge, which is the oldest ‘in use’ bridge on mainland Australia, was badly compromised by the recent flooding, resulting in major landslip of […]

Carpe Diem!

BY KARLENE BRUMMER After a three year hiatus due to natural disasters like fire, floods and the Covid pandemic, the St Alban’s Common Annual Carp Fishing Comp was back bigger and better than ever on the weekend of November 3-5. The Lake within the St Albans Common has been the setting for the Fishing Competition […]