This 18 October marks the official 70th anniversary of the opening of Lake Eildon in 1956, surrounding farming families felt disruption to their lives well before.
Mansfield Shire Council welcomed Victorian Labor Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah to Mansfield the recently completed IMPACT Route and the Lords Pavilion.
The Mansfield Heritage Museum team and local helpers moved in the first exhibit items, with historical items from Mansfield Courier placed in new exhibit.
A local teenager remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a Mansfield to Melbourne bus was involved in a devastating three-vehicle collision on the Melba Highway at Glenburn, killing a woman and injuring several others.
Google searches for four-wheel-drive tracks and bush camping regularly climb as summer approaches, just as some of the High Country’s most popular routes prepare to reopen after winter.