Darren Chaitman

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...