Day honours local nursing heroes
HEATHCOTE Health celebrated International Nurses Day last Friday with pizza and massage vouchers for all nursing staff. Acute nurse unit manager Jade Davies said the...
Heathcote in the 1910s
TECHNOLOGY marked the decade, both locally and on a worldwide scale. In 1910 a young local engineer built and flew the first Australian-made aeroplane near...
Shire supports diversity cause
WEDNESDAY, 17 May is IDAHOBIT Day, an international event focused on eliminating homophobia, biphobia, interphobia and transphobia. Mitchell Shire Council has free community events to...
Local CFA heroes honoured
LAST Saturday, the Tooborac community gathered to celebrate its firefighters. In the first award ceremony since 2015, 58 certificates and medals were presented to past...
Tooborac Primary School turns 150
TOOBORAC Primary School has just turned one hundred and fifty and planning is now underway for a community celebration later this year. School business manager...
Local royalist lives through third coronation
DIEHARD royalist and Heathcote resident Rowena Bull has just clocked up her third British coronation. Although she was only a baby when King George VI...
MP praises local helpers
WITH National Volunteer Week just around the corner, Euroa MP Annabelle Cleeland met recently with members of the Heathcote Royal Flying Doctor Service community...
O’Keefe Challenge a win for Heathcote
THE 2023 O’Keefe Challenge transformed Barrack Reserve into a hive of activity last Saturday despite dark clouds and intermittent rain. Challenge president Kerstin Brauns said...
Volunteer grants up for grabs
EACH week hundreds of volunteers give up their time to support Mitchell Shire’s community groups and programs. This year Council is celebrating National Volunteer Week...
Heathcote in the 1900s
HEATHCOTE greeted the new century with a burst of patriotic fervour. Several local men had gone to fight in the Boer War in South Africa...
Heathcote in the 1890s
THE boom of the 1880s was followed by a sharp economic downturn as the 1890s dawned. Gross domestic product fell by 17 per cent over...
Competition winners head to next round
AFTER three years of agricultural show cancellations due to COVID and flooding, last Saturday’s micro art and craft competition at Heathcote Showground was a...
O’Keefe Challenge rides into town
THE annual O’Keefe Challenge is just around the corner with a night bike ride this Saturday, 29 April, before the main walking and running...
New parcel boxes ready for collections
HEATHCOTE Post Office now offers free parcel lockers that allow customers to both send and pick up packages at any time. Co-owner Bryan Linnell said...
Flood inquiry submission date extended
THE deadline for submissions to the Inquiry into the 2022 Flood Event has been extended to Monday, 5 June and dates have now been...
Anzac Day a chance to reflect
ANZAC Day commemorations in Heathcote are an opportunity for the community to join together to remember the sacrifices made by service men and women. Heathcote...
Heathcote and District Anzac Day services
BENDIGO PRE-DAWN MARCH. 5.35am. March departs corner of Pall Mall and Bull Street. BENDIGO DAWN SERVICE. 6am. Soldiers Memorial Institute, 37-39 Pall Mall, Bendigo. HEATHCOTE DAWN...
Heathcote in the 1880s
THE 1880s were a time of immense prosperity and growth for the young colony of Victoria. Melbourne’s population grew from 280,000 to 445,000 over the...
Care villa vision about to become a reality
COUNTLESS hours of work by the Heathcote Dementia Alliance are set to be rewarded when a prototype care villa, Costerfield House, is delivered at...
Heathcote digs deep for the kids
HEATHCOTE’S tally for this year’s Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal reached twelve thousand, eight hundred dollars. Lions Club member and local appeal co-ordinator Greg...
Employment expo highlights local jobs
THE Heathcote and district employment expo on Tuesday, 2 May is aiming to give job seekers, career changers, and employers the chance to connect. Heathcote...
Help offered to get power saving bonus
ANOTHER round of the State Government’s Power Saving Bonus opened on 24 March and the two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar payment is available to all Victorian residential electricity...
Heathcote in the 1870s
As the McIvor Times entered its second decade it became Heathcote’s paper of record, and its pages were filled with court reports, council meeting...
Ned Kelly connections
THE exploits of the Kelly gang were regularly recounted in the pages of the McIvor Times in the late 1870s. The Jerilderie raid is one...