Last year’s Flamingo Fling High Tea was a huge success. Now it’s time to get this year’s event jumping with even more funds to be raised for local cancer survivors and many others in the community.The Snowy Flamingos Cancer Support Group members and other generous community groups, businesses and individuals participated and contributed to the 2018 Flamingo Fling, funds from which paid for a...

Goongerah resident, Sharon Small, is concerned for the safety of users of the Bonang Road.With a truck going over the edge on July 17 Ms Small was unable to attend her place of employment in Orbost. This is not an unusual occurrence along the road she says.“The driver and passenger of the truck carrying road fill for futile road works were shaken and had feared the front of the truck was going...

A stunning sunset did little to suppress the disappointment and frustration of one Melbourne visitor when his four-wheel drive vehicle needed rescuing from the Snowy River at the Marlo Jetty last Thursday night.It finished up an expensive day of fishing for the visitor when the vehicle he was backing to collect his friend’s boat proceeded to follow the trailer into the water, finishing up with...

The team behind local documentary film, Red Sunday: Healing Through Narrative Therapy, which tells the story of the 2014 fires around Bonang, are excited to have the film included in this year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.The fires of early 2014 were devastating for the Far East Gippsland communities and lasted nearly 70 long, unpredictable, and traumatic days, and the production of the...

Following the success of the Orbost Pumpkin Festival Art Exhibition 2019 it is now time to think about the festival for 2020.This will be bigger than the Easter exhibition this year and will require input from more members of the community.Do you have some ideas to make the 2020 festival better, bigger, encompass more, be more fun? All ideas, criticisms, innovations are welcome to encourage the...