Tara Lambert from Maffra has returned from the school holidays with a bronze medal from the national hockey championships held […] Rev up your engines and get ready for a weekend of excitement at the East Gippsland Heritage Truck Display The Maffra Recreation Ground will transform into a vibrant showcase of trucks from all decades coming together to celebrate the rich history of transport in Australia on November 16-17 Whether you’re a die-hard truck enthusiast or just looking for a fun family outing “The heritage show is expecting five to seven hundred attendees to make an appearance over the two days,” says event coordinator John Burley “Normally we have around 150 trucks that roll in over the weekend.” Bring the kids along for a day filled with joy featuring model and remote-controlled trucks as well as a jumping castle to keep the little ones entertained while you soak in the sights of classic trucks Stroll through the impressive displays while enjoying live music and a catered feast with a variety of food options to choose from make sure you don’t miss your chance to grab some unique merchandise from the American Truck Historical Society Club “This is a chance to see the ol’ trucks up close that run up and down the highway they’re different to the newer ones we have now,” John says enjoy the chance to connect with your fellow exhibitors and take advantage of the free camping on offer with adult tickets priced at just $10 per day while children under 16 can enter for free gather your friends and family and gear up for an unforgettable weekend of heritage For more details contact John Burley at 0413 516 233 or Terry Whelan on 0408 516 144 Check out the Deals on Wheels Facebook here. She was airlifted to the Alfred Hospital from Maffra in Gippsland but did not survive.Key PointsFilipina Maridel Timbreza de Ocampo was a few metres from her workplace when she met a fatal accident She was airlifted to the Alfred Hospital from Maffra in Gippsland but did not survive.She went to Cairns last 2022 to study Agriculture and after completing her studies moved to Gippsland to work in a dairy farm In 2024 she was granted a 482 Visa.She was scheduled to travel back to the Philippines for a holiday and spend time with her 8 year old child who she last saw in 2022.The single mother was planning on living permanently in Australia and provide a better future for her eight year old child Her husband died in an accident seven years ago.The Coroner is currently investigating the incident.SBS Filipino interviews Maridel's friend and coworker Alvin Panuelos for details about the final moments of her life.LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW:Pinay sa regional Victoria Filipino international student dies in Melbourne after being struck by two cars FUNDING will be allocated to upgrade the pavillion at the the Cameron Sporting Complex in Maffra if the Liberal-National Coalition […] Three hundred and thirty-eight players hit the courts over four days playing 581 matches across 16 courts in another successful […] THE Gippsland Vehicle Collection (GVC) in Maffra will receive a $1 million grant to future-proof facilities if the Liberal-National coalition […] Maffra District Hospital will undergo a renovation to create dedicated palliative care wards with […] THE Maffra Lawn Tennis Club's Easter Tournament begins on Friday and is expected to bring hundreds to Maffra The Rotary Club of Maffra Family Friendly Mardi Gras an alcohol-free event in the main street of Maffra The 2025 Rotary Club of Maffra Family Mardi Gras was recently launched at Duart Homestead Wellington Shire mayor Scott Rossetti […] Gippsland Youth Spaces Inc (GYS Inc) hosted its first-ever Gala Ball in Maffra on March 21 The Rotary Club of Maffra Mardi Gras got off to a good start recently by meeting with all of the […] Cash was taken during an alleged burglary at the Woolworths supermarket in Maffra in the early hours of Monday morning GIPPSLAND League competition resumes this weekend following the Easter break Round three action will be split across two days Former Sale City and Maffra player Sam Davidson made his AFL debut on Saturday night Maffra Hockey Club will begin five weeks of come and try sessions on Thursday spirits made from whey – a byproduct of cheese-making – have steadily gained attention on retail […] Maffra and Yarram are experiencing stock shortages after more than a week of strike action by […] The final round of the Maffra Golf Club's women's championships played out on Thursday More than 170 people gathered recently to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Maffra Gymnastic Club a momentous occasion filled with […] David Braithwaite The reduction of the speed limit along Stratford-Maffra Rd has raised the eyebrows of many locals START thinking about Family Mardi Gras 2025 The theme for next year is 'Under the Sea' and the event will […] Stefan Bradley SENIOR paramedics are hoping Ambulance Victoria and the state government take up their proposal to merge Maffra and […] as well as the federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester have called on the Commonwealth […] PERSISTENT rain at the Maffra Lawn Tennis Club on Saturday didn’t stop senior teams from competing in round 11 of […] THE Sale-Maffra Junior Cricket Association grand finals will be played on Monday at the Catholic College Sale ovals Four Maffra basketball teams headed to Colac on the weekend of March 1 and 2 for the annual Colac Classic Bairnsdale Cricket Association captain Ryan Halford was the winner of the Alan Rankin memorial trophy for his efforts at Gippsland Cricket League level in 2024/25 Sale-Maffra Cricket Association atoned for last year’s defeat in the Gippsland Cricket League grand final by easily accounting for the Bairnsdale Cricket Association in this year’s finale played last Sunday at Stratford It wasn’t all plain sailing for the Sharks but they did eventually win by 105 runs after looking in trouble during their innings at 5/67 before a 73-run partnership between former Orbost player Max Welsh (46) and Anthony Scott (33) propelled Sale-Maffra to a score of 222 Hard-hitting Englishman Freddie Fellows (27) skipper Jack Rietschel (25) and Jack Tatterson (18) also made valuable contributions in the context of the match Major wicket takers for Bairnsdale were skipper Ryan Halford (3/24) spinner Connor Mitchell (2/55) and seamer Jack Timms (2/25) In reply Bairnsdale was tracking along nicely at 2/78 Brodie Anderson top scored with a classy 41 while Scott Dare (20) and Jake Timms (18) were solid The wickets for the Bulls were shared between man of the match Fellows (4/13) The Sale-Maffra Cricket Association women’s team was successful in the women’s final making 6/185 before restricting Leongatha to 9/136 After the match the Gippsland Cricket League seasonal awards were handed out with Halford winning the Alan Rankin Memorial Trophy for his season’s effort as the leading player Sale-Maffra stalwart John Tatterson was the recipient of the George Munro Shield for his outstanding contribution to the promotion and advancement of junior representative cricket within Gippsland John was a loyal servant to the region for over 15 years being a founding member of the Gippsland Junior Development Committee serving for over a decade including as secretary as well as acting as manager or coach of Gippsland Pride teams at various age group levels for nine years John is the third Sale-Maffra affiliated person to earn this award after Graeme Anderson and Ken Bailey In under 15 action Bairnsdale went down to Sale-Maffra in a 20/20 match at Hudson-Alvin Oval Noah Mathers (22) and Des Hine (21) among the runs The Bulls knocked the total off in just 13 overs for the loss of three wickets In the under 13s Bairnsdale won their third match off the season which enabled it to finish on top of the ladder They will host the grand final at Lucknow this Sunday against Cricket Latrobe Valley Last Sunday at the Lucknow Recreation Reserve Sale-Maffra accumulated 4/87 in a 20/20 fixture Bairnsdale chasing the score down in the 16th over for the loss of three wickets © 2024 James Yeates | All Rights Reserved This is probably not the page you’re looking for Almost 50 lives have been lost on Victorian roads since the start of this year after two more fatal crashes in regional areas within 24 hours Duel police investigations are underway into two fatal crashes which occurred in regional Victoria within a 24-hour period A motorcyclist was killed near the New South Wales border on Friday morning while a female driver died in the state's east on Thursday afternoon Emergency services were called to Bonang in the state's north-east at about 10.30am on Friday after the motorcyclist crashed The rider died at the scene after they veered off the road and slammed into a tree on Bonang and Pretty Gully roads Police said the motorcyclist is yet to be formally identified emergency services rushed to the Stratford-Maffra Road in Maffra after a Toyota Corolla and Mitsubishi Triton collided "Detectives believe the driver of a silver 2001 Toyota Corolla sedan had come to a stop on the road to turn into a driveway when the vehicle was hit from behind by a 2022 Mitsubishi Triton utility," police said A 37-year-old woman from Maffra who was behind the wheel of the Corolla was airlifted to hospital A 35-year-old man from Stratford who was driving the Triton "was taken to hospital and has since been released pending further enquiries" Anyone with information which could assist investigators is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 Transport Accident Commission data until midnight on February 19 shows 44 people have died on Victoria's roads in the year-to-date compared to 37 in the same period last year Raelene and Dennis Hanratty milk a predominantly Jersey herd on their 194 hectare irrigated family farm at Upper Maffra West Dennis is the second generation of his family to own the dairy farm His grandfather was a dairy farmer at Toora Raelene is a first generation dairy farmer they briefly became sharefarmers before returning to work on the family farm they became sharefarmers on the family farm; then they bought the farm in 2008 most of them have worked or are working in the dairy industry has left school to work on the family farm and learn how to eventually run it himself one day Dennis and Raelene also have 30ha of irrigated country at Newry where they run their young heifers They keep 70-75 replacement heifers each year The Newry farm is also used to harvest silage Dennis and Raelene can access 430 megalitres of high reliability water to flood irrigate the Upper Maffra West and Newry farms The water comes from the Lake Glenmaggie system A 40.1ha of dryland country at Flynn is where the rising two-year-old Jersey heifers graze These cattle are joined naturally to Jersey bulls This block is also good for harvesting hay The couple also leases 28ha which is where the in-calf heifers graze so the Flynn country can be rested in readiness for harvest “This means we harvest enough hay and silage in an average year to be self-sufficient,” Raelene said Dennis said he aimed to harvest 300 rolls of pasture silage and 300 rolls of hay if it’s been a tough year for growing enough feed “We also feed 360 tonne of grain pellets each year.” Dennis relies on a rye-grass and clover mix that is suitable for irrigation and undertakes an annual fertiliser program that includes super potash The effluent pond is also shandied and used as necessary as fertiliser on the paddocks So we dry the milking herd off over winter.” The herd of 350 cows — 370 in a good spring and summer — is milked in a 40-bail rotary dairy on the home farm “It was the second rotary dairy built in the district Dennis and Raelene reduce their herd numbers It is several years since Dennis and Raelene bucked the trend for artificial insemination and started buying bulls to join with their cows “That’s given us some herd bulls to use on the heifers,” Raelene said The bull is put in with the heifers in October Their focus when using AI was to source semen from bulls that complemented their herd “We rely on visual confirmation in the dairy of which cows are in heat and the herd’s fertility rate means that in any year we have a maximum of 20 cows that are not in-calf,” Raelene said Their latest bull purchase was from a local farmer we have a commercial herd and we’re looking to make as much milk as we can,” Raelene said Their regime is now to use bulls and AI with conventional semen in their herd The 9000-litre vat in the dairy shed means collection can skip a day The herd’s production to the end of May was 1.5 million litres Jacob has his own story. See: https://www.dairynewsaustralia.com.au/news/jacobs-learning-the-ropes/ the key manager of irrigation water for farmers in southern Victoria undertook modernisation of key infrastructure in the Newry Channel system The Hanratty farm at Upper Maffra West is at the head of the system and the first of many farms among about 2300 hectares of country serviced by irrigation from this system About 20 per cent of outflows was estimated lost to evaporation the channels have been replaced with a gravity pipeline system reducing water loss and improving water delivery While it meant farming land was imposed upon for major works in saving water and more efficient and effective delivery of water for stock Raelene and Dennis Hanratty’s dairy farm is the first customer on the new so they have always benefited from pressure from the Glenmaggie Lake headwater that supplies the Main Northern Channel and flows into the Newry pipeline But one of the key benefits realised during the modernisation project was farm planning offered to all farmers through SRW and the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority Dennis and Raelene continue to flood irrigate both their Upper Maffra West and Newry farms The irrigation season extends from August 15 to May 15 But when the irrigation water is turned off the stock and domestic supply is still available “The Newry Pipeline Project created opportunities for us,” Raelene there was a lot of machinery on our property for a long time and we had to incorporate that into how we farmed and that enabled us to reconfigure laneways and paddocks.” While they had troughs in some of their paddocks they have since invested in water troughs for cattle in every paddock “When the new pipeline was built across our farm it was installed with regular outlets along it,” Raelene said “So we’ve been able to connect clean water from the Weir to troughs in every paddock “That gives us water security for the cattle.” In 2024 Dennis and their son Jacob made it a priority to install two-inch pipe underground in readiness for the new irrigation season “We started calving on August 1 and then the irrigation season opened on August 15,” Dennis said “We had to do it now [in winter] while we have time.” “Siren could go any second.” Replace Sydney and Nick Davis with Maffra and Alex […] Katrina Brandon CALF health was the subject of a recent workshop held by ProDairy and Gippsland Veterinary Hospital at the […] A two-day school holiday basketball camp is being held next week in Maffra Happy Hooping Basketball Training is hosting the […] A MAN found guilty over the hit-run death of a Maffra man was sentence to two and a half years […] Sierra Roberts is off to the School Sport Australia Nationals in Cairns this month to represent Victoria in […] The Golf East Gippsland 4BBB Championships scheduled for Maffra on Sunday unfortunately had to be postponed but the annual general meeting still took place The weekend’s inclement weather caused the abandonment of the Golf East Gippsland 4BBB Championship event that was scheduled for Maffra last Sunday It was disappointing with 100 players set to tee up but the event will be rescheduled for another date in the near future The annual general meeting of Golf East Gippsland still went ahead with a number of delegates and interested persons in attendance The meeting saw the election of the executive and committee for 2025 Lucy Haussegger (South Pines) and secretary/treasurer Other elected committee members were Nadine Martin (Bairnsdale/Lakes Entrance) and Greg Meldrum (Maffra) The new executive was full of praise for the efforts of outgoing president Karin Liedke who has done an outstanding job in leading the district since the amalgamation The next major event to be played is the Golf East Gippsland mixed foursomes which will be played at South Pines He rubbed shoulders with superstars in footy and cricket Adrian Burgiel has just one regret among his blitzkrieg of country runs Please call us on 1800 070 535 and we’ll help resolve the issue or try again later A chance comment at a display of private cars in Maffra’s main street 20 years ago steered a passionate group of people to create a unique rotating exhibition of historic vehicles and automobile memorabilia “Someone should open a museum to display the cars permanently,” they said the Gippsland Vehicle Collection at the Maffra Shed will celebrate 20 years of transport-related exhibitions showcasing a diverse array of cars “Over the years we’ve displayed everything from farm vehicles to exotic classics Motorcycles have always been part of the displays too home-grown Australian vehicles and Japanese vehicles built to take on the world,” GVC’s display manager Chris Henry said “Added to this are a model vehicle display second to none and a special section dedicated to railways and train history throughout Gippsland Another recent compliment to rail is a model train display – a dedication to one man’s lifetime research into building model railways and the painstaking detail to build the best of dioramas “Our museum is unique and very different to other car museums presenting rolling displays with a completely different theme every four months This diversity has given a wide and varied insight into the vehicles the popular culture of the time and how people have worked with and lived around the vehicles we know and love “The vehicles have always been the stars.There is an endless array of collectible and very desirable cars trucks and motorcycles throughout Gippsland and Victoria Some of these are the only ones known to survive or are one of only a handful known to exist These precious gems are lent to us by very protective owners trusting us to look after their babies as they have a four-month holiday with us and an admiring public “But behind all our great vehicles and model displays are the people who make the whole thing run smoothly from car cleaners to front counter staff and the committee of management The museum is managed by volunteers from all walks of life with diverse interests and skills Together we have seen it grow from humble beginnings to the amazing place it is today “We invite anyone with an interest in transport-related history to walk through 20 years’ worth of displays with us You might be pleasantly surprised at the line-up of different and diverse vehicles selected to help celebrate our 20th anniversary.” The Gippsland Vehicle Collection is located at 1A Opening hours are 10am to 4pm Friday to Monday Open every day during the school holidays or by appointment for car clubs or group bookings