May 19, 2023
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...
May 13, 2023
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...
May 13, 2023
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...
May 12, 2023
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...
May 12, 2023
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...
May 12, 2023
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...
May 12, 2023
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...
May 12, 2023
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...
May 12, 2023
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...
May 6, 2023
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...
April 29, 2023
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...
April 28, 2023
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...
April 28, 2023
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...
April 28, 2023
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...
April 28, 2023
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...
April 24, 2023
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...
April 24, 2023
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...
April 22, 2023
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...
April 21, 2023
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...
April 21, 2023
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...
April 21, 2023
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...
April 21, 2023
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...
April 15, 2023
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...
April 15, 2023
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...
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