Dave to the rescue
From ancient Egyptians to our beloved Winnie the Pooh, honey harvesting has been happening in our civilisation for a guesstimated 4500 years now, and...
New St John Chittering Gingin subcentre officially open
While the wettest July in decades may have hampered St John Ambulance Chittering-Gingin Subcentre Chairperson Dennis Badcock’s vision of the day, it didn’t dampen...
Support for Tanya after MS diagnosis
The new year is looking drastically different for 34-year-old mother of three Tanya Cornelius, who received the news she has multiple sclerosis as 2021...
Marvick Native Farms in the limelight
Northern Valleys News first visited Marvick Native Farms in Red Gully in January 2016. A retirement project for Vickie Shina and Mark Andrew, their...
Community detectives connect the dots…
A keen eye and some dedicated amateur detectives have seen a box of treasured family memories reunited with their owner.
Volunteering at the Bullsbrook Recycling...
Sulking
Being in a ‘sulk’ means, according to the Collins English dictionary, “to be silent and resentful because of a wrong done to one...to brood...
Let’s talk about the dinosaur in the room
Last Friday night I dutifully trooped off to Midland Ace Cinemas to watch the latest Jurassic Park offering – Jurassic World Dominion, with my...
Sweet spot
The Oversby family of Bindoon are expecting a bumper harvest of their magnificent mandarins this season after a disappointing year in 2019 yielded them...
Quarantine centre coming to Bullsbrook
Bullsbrook residents were surprised at the announcement on August 25 that the federal government’s planned quarantine facility would be built on Defence Land west...
Local citrus packs a punch
Fortunately, the driest May for 36 years isn’t expected to affect our burgeoning local citrus crop. In fact, the warm, dry days have made...
A land of olive trees
The harvest of olives begins throughout the Northern Valleys this month, with producers large and small collecting fruit for preserving and pressing into olive...
