In this week's Huon News we catch up with Jake Norris from Hansen Orchards to talk about Asia Fruit Logistica and the opportunity to market Tasmanian produce in a standalone booth for the first time. We take a look at the Huon Valley Council's $4 million CDO investment following the settlement of its legal cases against Standard & Poors and Commonwealth Bank. The second stage of Project X,...

In this week's Huon News we march with the CPSU to Huonville's Centrelink office, as union members, local residents and State and Federal members protest the co-location of the Huonville Centrelink office with Service Tasmania. We talk to Tom Andrews, who is one of 600 firefighters competing in this year's Melbourne Firefighter Stair Climb to raise money for the Emergency Services Foundation...

The Huonville Volunteer Fire Brigade has made the front page of this week's Huon News, with their efforts in the Saving Little Grace fundraiser, which is hoping to raise enough money to send Grace to the United States for potentially life-saving surgery. Huon Valley Mayor Bec Enders responds to the blow out of the councillor travel expense budget since the new councillors were sworn in last...

Last week AL-2 Teknik director Peter Gronbjerg visited Huon Aquaculture’s (Huon) Whale Point Salmon Nursery to fine tune the company’s state of the art water treatment system. Whale Point Salmon Nursery is a recirculation system that re-uses 98 per cent of the water used in its 12, 800 cubic metre grow out tanks and four smaller, 22- cubic metre, grading tanks. However, with the water being...

After 12 months in development, with input from teachers, students and the community, last Wednesday saw the launch of Huonville High School’s (HHS) School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) programme at a whole school assembly. SWPBS programmes have been successfully used in schools around the world to assist in improving social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for students,...