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Buller landslide emergency scenario discussed at round table

OPERATION White Bridge was the name of a training exercise held on Mt Buller recently outlining the actions needed to be taken if a major landslide occurred on the Mt Buller. Senior Sergeant Steve Carden of Mansfield Police instigated the training...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 31 May 2023

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Buller landslide emergency scenario discussed at round table

OPERATION White Bridge was the name of a training exercise held on Mt Buller recently outlining the actions needed to be taken if a major landslide occurred on the Mt Buller. Senior Sergeant Steve Carden of Mansfield Police instigated the training...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 31 May 2023

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Devil’s Country – Maralinga

SIXTY years on since the A–Bomb testing by the British Government on Australian soil ceased, the contaminated barren, dry desert, the former Maralinga atomic testing site, is still being remembered. For Rob Hornsby of Bonnie Doon, Maralinga holds...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 15 Mar 2023

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Driving the Stars is the life for ‘the man in the hat’

SURFING, dining, driving, shopping and rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest pop and movie stars from around the world is no big deal for Mansfield resident John Lobbe. For more than 40 years John has been a ‘runner/driver’ for some of the...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 18 Jan 2023

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100 years and go still going strong

BELLE Burke has seen world history made, lived through tough times, and now as she celebrates her 100th birthday reflects on some of those times. Belle burke turned 100 years young yesterday (Tuesday, December 13).Born in Devonport, Tasmania, Belle...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 14 Dec 2022

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Tree planting honors late Queen’s Jubilee

REMEMBERING the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the Mansfield Agricultural & Pastoral Society (A&P) last week unveiled a plaque recognising 70 years’ leadership. Although the commemoration has come after the Queen’s passing, Her Majesty’s Platinum...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 07 Dec 2022

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Bumper season off to a great start

MT BULLER and Mt Stirling are experiencing the best season for many years – some say since the late 1980s. Comparing visitor numbers over the past three years and up to 10 years, has seen an increase of more than 1000 per cent and in some cases...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 06 Jul 2022

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Mountain legend takes a step back

JIM Hughes is a Mt Buller legend in his own right – and this year he has had a building on the mountain named after him – “Jimmy’s House”.Jimmy’s House was always known as the Plough Shed Flat – a small annexe attached to the plough shed which...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 22 Jun 2022

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Weather 2020

LAST year saw the welcome return of decent rain to Mansfield Shire after a couple of lean seasons. The annual rainfall measured in town for the whole year was 726mm, way up on the previous year’s 447mm and...

Pam Zierk-Mahoney 25 Jan 2021