The results of the East Gippsland Shire Council elections will be declared next Tuesday. The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) has finished counting the first batch of votes in the elections. To date more than 27,093 votes have been collated with about a further 7000 to be counted over the next couple of days and early next week. Leading the race to date is 25- year-old Kirsten Van Diggele,...
Visitors have begun returning to the Omeo Caravan Park following the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions in recent weeks. Lou and Sandi Beltrame, who run the park, are pleased that visitors are starting to trickle back into Omeo following a devastating year in which bushfires and COVID-19 disrupted life as they knew it. Mr Beltrame says in recent weeks many people have been arriving in Omeo to...