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Tigers gunning for final round win over Hawks

OVENS Valley United will fight to finish the season with a win after putting Rovers United Bruck on the back foot at 5/49 chasing the Tiger’s modest first-innings total of 96. On a day for the bowlers, Ovens Valley was sent into bat and...

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12 Mar 2020

Community

Crunch time for wineries

ONE of the Alpine Valleys region’s largest wine producer, Feathertop Wines of Porepunkah, has announced it will not produce a 2020 vintage due to smoke-tainted grapes from the January bushfires. Feathertop winemaker and president of the Alpine...

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11 Mar 2020

Community

Council approves rate relief

ALPINE Shire businesses indirectly affected by the January bushfires will be eligible to receive one-quarter of rate relief for the 2019/20 financial year, after council approved the measure at last week’s monthly council meeting in Mount Beauty...

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11 Mar 2020

Alpine News

Corowa turns Power off

WELL, the dream is over. Mount Beauty is out of the finals, thrashed by Corowa by 77 runs in their semi-final clash on Saturday in Mount Beauty. Unfortunately for the Power, sixth-placed Kiewa managed, for the third time this season and the second...

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03 Mar 2020

Community

Ready for harvest time

HOP Products Australia (HPA) has opened their new Buffalo River Valley processing facility ahead of the commercial hop harvest this month. The opening last Wednesday marked the completion of phase one of a $35 million expansion that aims to increase...

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03 Mar 2020

Community

Searching for a sign

RESIDENTS of Germantown and Freeburgh have raised concerns over illegal camping and dumping along the Ovens River after campers continue to leave without cleaning up rubbish or putting out camp fires. The banks of the river between the Germantown...

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25 Feb 2020

Community

No doubt over Bright skipper

BRIGHT captain and 2019 Baker Medalist Nick Lebish looks set to play this season after an extended break and delayed start to pre-season training, according to coach Tom Mullane-Grant. Lebish, 25, hasn’t been a regular at pre-season training so...

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25 Feb 2020

Cricket

Power Demonised

DEDERANG has managed to level this season’s tally against highway rivals Mount Beauty on Saturday, winning by four wickets in the final over of play on Saturday. The Power finishes the season third on the ladder, equal on points with the...

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25 Feb 2020

Council

Need to be seen

THE president of the Bright and District Chamber of Commerce, Rupert Shaw, has questioned the value of Alpine Shire councillors receiving a temporary pay rise after no councilors attended an open Bushfire Recovery meeting of the chamber last week.

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18 Feb 2020

Community

Grant to improve ‘business resilience’

BUSINESSES in the Alpine, Towong and East Gippsland shires are set to get a boost in their bushfire recovery efforts, with the State Government last week announcing funding for local councils to run ‘business resilience programs’.

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18 Feb 2020