The township of Mallacoota was the poster image of last summer’s Australian bushfires. Images of tourists and local residents trapped in the town and taking refuge on the beach, as the fireball coated the seaside resort in an eerie orange glow, went viral. Almost 12 months on and many residents are still waiting to rebuild after the Black Summer fires.While the process has been slow going with...

Mallacoota Surf Life Saving Club has been announced as a 2020 Bushfire Recovery Grant recipient.The local organisation that provides year-round local emergency response capabilities, along with awareness programs and annual community events, has received $50,000, enabling it to create a purpose-built facility with other local emergency services.In January 2019, an out of control bushfire from...

Club Terrace will be better able to respond to bushfires after the donation of a water tanker.The five Rotary Clubs of East Gippsland came together and created the East Gippsland Rotary Fire Aid following last summer’s bushfires and the group is still supporting those most affected with the small, remote township of Club Terrace, north-east of Orbost with a population around 50, the latest...

There is nothing like a global pandemic to make ourselves question our life, the way we live it and to appreciate the simplest of things that we once perhaps took for granted. Zinnia Golding, her fiancé, Cameron Scott, and their two small children were holidaying in Marlo at Cameron’s family’s holiday shack earlier this year before the hard lockdown occurred in Melbourne. This is when they...

Marlo resident, Mark Reeves, has been returned as a councillor following the counting of votes in the East Gippsland Shire Council elections. Mr Reeves, a long-time councillor and former mayor, narrowly scraped over the line with 1535 votes to secure the ninth position on council. He will be joined at the council table by seven new faces and immediate past mayor, John White, who too was re-...