Darren Chaitman

Melbourne

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Articles

Talented council director resigns

Dec 10, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Darren Chaitman

A MEMBER of Strathbogie Shire Council’s executive leadership team, infrastructure director John Harvey, resigned in recent weeks. This masthead understands Mr Harvey is recovering from a knee operation, but has been unable to confirm the reason for his resignation. Disappointed community members said the council officer – who joined council in late 2023 – was down-to-earth, effective and a can...
Gazette's bard revealed

Dec 10, 2024 | wangarattachronicle.com.au | Darren Chaitman

SINCE July, Craig Penny’s poems, sent as letters to the editor, have been an almost weekly feature in The Euroa Gazette. The 64-year-old Terip Terip man made his debut in this paper with a limerick about a fire that revealed a hydroponic cannabis set-up, which had been reported under the front-page headline: “Fire reveals secret Euroa cannabis house”. Mr Penny’s poem summed up the story ...
Strathbogie is state's third fastest growing LGA

Dec 4, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Darren Chaitman

THE Strathbogie Shire is riding a growth wave sweeping northeast Victoria, ranking as the state’s third fastest growing LGA in a December 2024 Regional Australia Institute (RAI) report. The shire has dropped from its first place ranking in RAI’s August 2024 report, which earned it the impressive title of Victoria’s fastest growing LGA. But the latest quarterly report reveals that in the 12 mo...
When will annoying bird leave town?

Dec 4, 2024 | farmernews.com.au | Darren Chaitman

KOO woop. Koo woop. Koo woop. Koo woop. This is the pacific koel’s attempt at attracting a mate, as Euroa residents know too well.
local kids slam social media ban

Dec 3, 2024 | alpineobserver.com.au | Darren Chaitman

Politics and Government “Ridiculous”: local kids slam social media ban Dec 04 2024 Updated 7 minutes ago LOCAL parents and teenagers have reacted to the Federal Government’s new legislation banning under 16s from social media platforms, which passed in parliament last week.
Jams' journey from Euroa to Hollywood

Dec 3, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Darren Chaitman

“WELCOME to the land of fame excess (woah); am I gonna fit in?” Miley Cyrus muses in her 2009 hit, Party in the USA, which tells the story of a young Nashville woman’s trepidation on visiting Los Angeles, America, for the first time. Three jars of jam from Euroa’s Café 56, now en route to the star-studded city, could soon be asking themselves the same question. After buying one jar of raspb...
Is Euroa haunted?

Dec 3, 2024 | alpineobserver.com.au | Darren Chaitman

A PARANORMAL investigator recently visited Euroa to scope out local “haunts” for future ghost tours, including a house on De Boos Street, the Seven Creeks Hotel, the North Eastern Hotel, Polly McQuinns and Mount Wombat. Euroa friends Amanda Watkins and Michael O’Connor joined the excursion with Shepparton investigator Clive Wooley of CASPA, which stands for “Country Assessment Study of Para...
local kids slam social media ban

Dec 3, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Darren Chaitman

LOCAL parents and teenagers have reacted to the Federal Government’s new legislation banning under 16s from social media platforms, which passed in parliament last week. Most parents who spoke to this masthead supported the ban as a measure to prevent addiction, cyberbullying and exposure to extreme content, but some local kids said it will remove a valuable outlet for creativity, business pursu...
When will annoying bird leave town?

Dec 3, 2024 | wangarattachronicle.com.au | Darren Chaitman

KOO woop. Koo woop. Koo woop. Koo woop. This is the pacific koel’s attempt at attracting a mate, as Euroa residents know too well. The male bird apparently defies Einstein’s definition of insanity (“doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”) by winning over the female of the species through this piercing, repetitive call. Perhaps the female koel (pron...
Meet Sergeant Willis

Dec 3, 2024 | euroagazette.com.au | Darren Chaitman

EUROA Police’s new sergeant, Dempsey Willis, took a demotion because the chance to work in her own town was “just too good”. Sergeant Willis spent her early policing career in Melbourne and was senior sergeant in Shepparton for three years before she took the Euroa job in July. She moved to town four years ago, where her daughters Lily (seven) and Remy (five) attend St John’s Primary Schoo...