Spic and span, but still ugly as sin.

“Mummy, why does that spaceship look like a giant penis?”
Wodonga’s water tower is undergoing a high pressure cleaning at the moment, an exercise arguably as futile as putting make-up on this.
Nonetheless, the three days work, billed to the ratepayers are intended to make the Wodonga eyesore icon gleam.
Wodonga Mayor Rod Wangman said the cleaning work [...]

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Without fear or favour?

Recent debate about the Albury based website “BORDERLINE Albury Wodonga” got me thinking, “where do I know this Paul Greene chap from?”.
Google drew a blank, sure I saw the interview with him on the Prime news segment, and I knew I had seen him before.
Alas I had to rely on the comparatively slower and infinitely [...]

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About bloody time.

I am often critical of police, I admit it, I believe as a society we have a moral obligation to question authority as a form of vigilance to ensure our liberties are respected and our personal freedoms are maintained.
I am also a firm supporter of the arts, and I am most certainly not a prude.
I [...]

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Freezing weather, now there’s ice on the Hume Freeway.

 

Police have seized $175 thousand worth of the drug ice in a car in north east Victoria this morning.
Officers patrolling the Hume Freeway near Wodonga pulled over the car for a random check.
Police say the driver was behaving strangely, so the car was searched.
It was taken back to the police station and officers discovered a [...]

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Albury’s graffiti “war” has storeowners hopping mad.

Well I guess if truth is the first casualty, the second must be the term “war” itself.
Time was when it took a prolonged and organised military engagement to earn the title “war”, remember the scemantic evasions over the “Vietnam conflict”?
Of course the term “war” has also been used to describe a co-ordinated effort of various underworld types bumping one [...]

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Climate change denial industry has it’s work cut out.

Chief executive of the Murray Darling Basin Commission Dr. Wendy Craik says fears of a perpetual drought are not alarmist and the basin may need rainfall of “biblical” proportions to reverse the drought.
“The evidence suggests that the drought and lack of water are linked to global warming,” she said.
 “There is a possibility that the sort of [...]

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Stanley Street development site, have your say.

Wodonga council are seeking public input on their development plans for the soon to be defunct Stanley Street pool complex, suggestions and input can be given here. 
Perhaps while you’re there you can throw your hat into the ring for the council CEO position currently up for grabs.
On matters pool related, the development plans for the [...]

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Underbelly under-stocked, under scrutiny.

DVD copies of the TV series at the centre of a Victorian Supreme Court decision banning it’s screening in that state have sold out virtually as soon as (and in one case even before) they hit the shelves of Albury retailers.

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