MANSFIELD District Hospital is confident it can turn around a $500,000 operating deficit from the past financial year. more --->

MANSFIELD Courier came away with three awards at the Victorian Country Press Association’s 98th annual conference on Friday night. more --->

A MERRIJIG anti-pipe activist was tackled to the ground, put in a headlock and arrested during a protest at the north-south pipeline worksite at Glenburn last week. more --->

BONNIE Doon resident, George Elias, has admitted helping alleged murderer Tony Mokbel flee Australia. more --->

MANY Mansfield residents use grey water in their garden as the drought bites harder, but could the environment conscious practice be used on a wider scale? more --->

FEARS of long-term closure of the Morning Star mine are completely unfounded, according to management. more --->

A MANSFIELD great grandmother, who lost all her belongings in a house fire, remains focused on rebuilding her life. more --->

LIFE governorships were awarded to four worthy recipients at the Mansfield District Hospital’s annual general meeting last week. more --->

HAVE Bonnie Doon residents lost faith in their churches? more --->

AROUND 60 people attended Mansfield’s Remembrance Day service at the memorial gates, led by Major (retired) Bruce Bingham, president of the Mansfield RSL branch, last Tuesday. more --->

ORGANISERS of the 119th annual Mansfield Show, held last Saturday, must have felt relieved it was not scheduled to take place the previous day, when Mansfield was lashed by heavy showers of rain. more --->

A NEW DVD hopes to encourage metropolitan businesses and residents to make that big step into a ‘treechange’ and move to the high country. more --->

A DRAFT car parking study claims there is plenty of parking in Mansfield’s central business district, but people might have trouble finding it. more --->

TEN porters from the village of Kagi, located on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, visited Mansfield last week. more --->

MANSFIELD and district’s Bendigo Bank is continuing to go from strength to strength. more --->

A SPARKLING performance by musicians Bruce Mathiske, Chris Duncan, Greg Young and Paul Riley at the Mansfield Performing Arts Centre last Saturday raised additional funds for the Friday trust to donate to Mansfield District Hospital. more --->

MORE than 20 years of planting, tending and lots of care at the Bentley Garden, behind Mansfield District Hospital’s Buckland House, was celebrated with the launch of a book on its history on Sunday. more --->

CATHY Parks and Kerrie Cheer have been long-term members of the Mansfield basketball association and between them have clocked up more than 25 years on the committee. more --->

I SUPPOSE it has been a while since the other paper became deceased and I wrote my last one of these. more --->

MANSFIELD brought home the bacon against Delatite in their keenly fought A grade cricket tussle at the Lords Reserve on the weekend. more --->