Well-known Orbost artist, Dawn van den Berg, has been putting the finishing touches to her large and impressive mural in the Save The Snowy Rail Bridge shop front display and the results are inspiring.Dawn is noted for her meticulous paintings and drawings, particularly of wildlife, so the challenge of doing a really large-scale impression of the historic railway bridge was “pretty different”...

Cricket Victoria has announced the final 13-man Country and Metro squads to compete at this year’s under 15 National Championships.Orbost Cricket Club’s Max Welsh will don the big V for Vic Country and is looking forward to what awaits.“I’m looking forward to playing with my new teammates and really just the whole experience,” Welsh said.“Hopefully I’ll be batting around the middle order and...

The Annual Marlo Triathlon run by the Orbost Snowy Rovers Football Netball Club and Riviera Triathlon Club was deemed a huge success.Held on January 5, people from far and wide travelled to Marlo to take part in the 26th running of the event.Event organiser, Jenny Smith, says that she has received nothing but positive feedback.“The numbers were up in the kids races and they were pretty similar...

It is the end of an era for the local timber industry as Alan Light, known to everyone as Jack, decided last month to retire after 49 years.Among the places Jack worked during his nearly five decades in the industry were Waygara, Powelltown, Newmeralla, Bemm River, Nayook and Noojee, where he worked in probably every position the mills in those locations had available.This stood him in great...

Gaining and retaining doctors in rural Victoria is no easy feat, so with Orbost Regional Health’s Dr Anthea Tan clocking up more than a decade in the town it’s something to be celebrated.Born in Malayasia and moving to Melbourne to board and complete year 12 at MLC, Dr Tan went on to graduate medicine at University of Melbourne in 1998.“But there were no jobs here at the time, so I had to go to...