Community

If the promise of seedlings, smiles and snags sounds like your idea of a good Sunday morning, the Corner Inlet Landcare Group wants to see you on 26 July. This year marks 30 years since National Tree Day began in 1996, and in that time Australian communities have planted almost 28 million trees.

One of South Gippsland's longstanding volunteer groups is closing its doors, with the Friends of Agnes Falls announcing it is winding up after 14 years of promoting and caring for the Agnes Falls Scenic Reserve and its surrounds.

The Great Southern Rail Trail celebrated its latest glow up on Friday 10 July, with the official launch of its Activation Project at Koonwarra Recreation Reserve, bringing together local government, state representation and community volunteers to celebrate.

A koala struck by a vehicle on the South Gippsland Highway is being monitored by wildlife carers after a veterinary assessment found no fractures or obvious serious injuries, though she is not yet out of the woods.

What in us makes us want to volunteer? In the recent play ‘No Exit’ by Jean-Paul Sartre, performed by FAMDA, ‘Hell is other people’. In many respects this can be true and yet we still find ourselves drawn to be a part of a group, to help, to try.

Foster Secondary College is proud to celebrate two students awarded with the Murrung Education Scholarship Program: Wiradjuri woman, Jahkoa Morton, and Kamilaroi woman, Myunah Duroux.

The Foster Agricultural Show has taken out a state-level honour, winning the Best Innovation award in the Large Section category at the 2026 Victorian Agricultural Shows State Final awards.