Kyabram News

Meet Macey, Kyabram’s Top Dog

AMASSING 560 votes and beating out 19 other submissions, one-and-a-half-year-old purebred Labrador Marley has been crowned Kyabram and district’s top dog. The golden bundle of joy is no doubt a deserving winner, as owner Steve Grima explains. How...

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Indoor Cricket in Kyabram | Looking Back

-Compiled by Eileen Sullivan from the files of the Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram Free Press

Burnt Butter cafe encouraging social interaction with new initiative

BURNT Butter owner Jess Scoble has seen thousands of people come and go through her time at the cafe. And over the past few years she has noticed the steady decline of social activity among her customers, in the shop as well as out on the street...

Jared Prestwidge

Burnt Butter cafe encouraging social interaction with new initiative

BURNT Butter owner Jess Scoble has seen thousands of people come and go through her time at the cafe. And over the past few years she has noticed the steady decline of social activity among her customers, in the shop as well as out on the street...

Jared Prestwidge

Girgarre-Stanhope Rail Trail hits the final stretch

IT’S taken 10 years, countless local volunteers and thousands of dollars, but the Girgarre-Stanhope Rail Trail has entered the final stretch. And with weather, funding and a worldwide viral pandemic permitting, the large-scale project is...

Jared Prestwidge

Kyabram Fauna Park welcome new acquisitions

AS the Kyabram Fauna Park came roaring back to life last week, visitors were treated to a first-time meeting with a couple of new faces. The newest residents are a trio of elusive nocturnal quolls from Tasmania, a southern Koala from Barwon Heads...

Jared Prestwidge

McConnell First National Real Estate take out two Diamond awards

THE McConnell First National Real Estate team was recognised for its outstanding achievements at the First National General Excellence and Marketing Awards recently. Usually held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne, the ceremony was instead...

Jared Prestwidge

The Three to One Band | Looking Back

OVER the years dances were extremely popular in the various halls in the area with many bands formed by young enthusiastic musicians. The Three to One Band was formed in 1965 when some of the original members of the Orbits Band had moved on. The...

Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram’s Callum Gleeson takes final bow on The Voice

Callum Gleeson’s journey on The Voice has been cut short. After impressing Delta Goodrem in the blind auditions, the Kyabram superstar was eliminated from the reality television competition during Monday night’s episode.

Jessica Ball

Kyabram and district community groups to share in $30,000 worth of grants

NINE community groups and organisations from Kyabram and district have been delivered a share of over $30,000 by the Campaspe Shire Council’s 2020-21 Community Grants Program. In the Community Support category, $4000 was granted to the Kyabram...

Jared Prestwidge

KDHS joins two regional pandemic plans

KYABRAM District Health Service (KDHS) has jumped on board with two separate regional pandemic plans in a move to better protect residents against subsequent outbreaks of COVID-19.

Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram Fauna Park set to reopen on June 29

AFTER three long months with their backs against the wall, the Kyabram Fauna Park and its staff have weathered the storm of COVID-19 and come out the other side.

Jared Prestwidge

KDHS encouraging residents to drop the booze this Dry July

KYABRAM District Health Service, Tongala Health and Stanhope Health staff are coming together for the Dry July campaign to raise money for cancer research. A fundraiser aimed at social drinkers, Dry July challenges participants to go alcohol-free...

Jared Prestwidge

Sandhurst Diocese welcomes changes to governance of Catholic schools

SANDHURST Diocese Bishop Shane Mackinlay has announced a new and exciting era in the governance of Catholic education. Following six months of meetings, discussions and listening assemblies, a model of governance has been developed to best serve...

Kyabram Free Press

Kyabram Water Tank project awarded $80,000 grant

AFTER a three-year campaign, Kyabram is finally set for its own splash of colour. Member for Northern Victoria Mark Gepp announced today the Kyabram Project Committee has been awarded an $80,000 grant to start the Kyabram Water Tank project. The...

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P-12 College student wins VCAL Achievement Award

KYABRAM P-12 College student Maddy Pangrazio was recently recognised for her exemplary study efforts with a VCAL Achievement Award.

Jared Prestwidge

Kyabram Legacy brings voucher initiative forward to June

KYABRAM Legacy Group and Kyabram Chamber of Commerce’s Christmas Vouchers for Widows initiative has made a mid-year appearance for the first time in response to COVID-19.

Jared Prestwidge

KDHS testing numbers nearly double

Kyabram District Health Service (KDHS) has announced it has tested 140 people forCOVID-19 since June 8, almost doubling its daily numbers since its testing clinic opened in the first week of May.

Jared Prestwidge

Depression to suicide attempts: how Sam Holman is fighting the Black Dog

ON THE outside, Sam Holman is the quintessential Aussie larrikin. Easy-going, cheerful and funny. The joker of the group. The type of person you want as a friend. But on the inside, unseen, a dark despair was growing, eating at him like a cancer...

Ivy Jensen