Street upgrade restarts
After a number of delays caused by bad weather and unforseen impediments, work re-commenced on the Corryong streetscape project yesterday ... "Our top priority is to ensure a seamless and organised site for the Christmas period": Vilfred Correa, project manager.
Heed the ‘Call of the High Country’
Honor Auchinleck. The Man From Snowy River Bush Festival Elyne Mitchell Photo Story Awards hopes that you will find great pleasure in creating your entries for the 2024 Awards ... Elyne was a great admirer of A B (‘Banjo’) Paterson. As she was the inaugural Patron of the Bush Festival, it seems fitting that we use a theme that complements both Elyne’s and Banjo’s legacies.
Charity ramps up services
A local food pantry provider for needy and disadvantaged people is now able to offer more support services now that it has found a permanent home.
Places filling fast for opening events
The Corryong Golf Club has received strong interest in two events scheduled for the weekend of November 18 and 19 when the new synthetic greens will be officially opened ... Interest in the sport is growing with Corryong College students playing golf as part of this semester’s sport curriculum ...
Awards recognise water innovation
North East Water’s work has been recognised with a major award and a high commendation ... North East Water’s complex $6.5 million Beechworth project involved drilling through granite bedrock to construct a one-kilometre pipeline in Beechworth Historic Park, making it one of the longest single shot boring operations attempted through granite in Victoria.
Fresh face leads the way
A teacher who started at Corryong College in 2022 has made an immediate impact in the education sector by winning the Victorian Outstanding Early Career Primary Teacher award ... Since starting as a graduate teacher last year, Kendall Heycox has demonstrated her capacity for leadership and aptitude as an educator ...
The tough got going
On Tuesday Corryong College held its annual Tough Mudder and Colour Run ... The course was designed by Claudia McKimmie’s Year 9/10 fun and fitness class and had more than ten different stations including the water slide, the ice bath, silage bails, hay bale climb, mazes, hill climb and barbed-wire crawl.
Obituary: Lynn James ‘Sam’ Harrison – Quiet man cared for family and friends and his beloved fire brigade
Lynn James Harrison, known to one and all as Sam, was born September 22nd, 1939 in the Corryong Hospital ... Sam Harrison officially joined the Bringenbrong Rural Fire Brigade in 1958 ... well respected as a Captain as he remained very calm under pressure.
