Image: Local workers at the Esperance Bay farm sorting organic apples. Coles is transforming its organic fresh produce offer as increased customer demands has prompted a near doubling in the volume and variety of organic fruit and vegetables in stores, all while removing 35 tonnes of plastic packaging. To help service the increase in demand for organic produce, Coles is working closer...

Image: Huon local Michael Bennett is striving from personal tragedies to make it to the world stage of Target Rifle Shooting at the 2024 Paris Paralympics and 2026 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, with recent gold medal wins at the Melbourne International Shooting Club Grand Prix showing a bright future for him. (PS) “My desire to excel again drives me,” said Michael Bennett, a new Huon...

Image: Students practiced rowing skills on-land before taking to the water of the Huon River in Living Boat Trust dinghies.  Continuing a twenty-year tradition on the water, the Living Boat Trust (LBT) invited local students from Franklin Primary School to a water safety program on the shores of the Huon River. Joined by LBT volunteers, students were taught the ins-and-outs of boating...

Willie Smith’s has taken the Best in Show award at the 2022 Australian Cider Awards held in Adelaide Hills. Backed up by wins in the Best Traditional Cider, Best in Class 1 - New World Cider Dry and Best in Class 7 - Traditional Cider Medium categories, the Huon Valley cider producer was also marked as winner of the Most Successful Larger Producer award. Judges were wowed by Willie Smith’s...

Image: Isla Flakemore and Liv Wise play Hansel and Gretel in Huonville High School's production The Last Page. (PS) This year, Huonville High School’s (HHS) drama teacher challenged the 30 Year 9/10 students to work together to create an original play written with every students’ contribution. The beginning of the play started with each student coming up with random characters and...