Approximately one in two people in Tasmania do not have the literacy and numeracy skills that are needed for life in a technologically rich world, something that 26TEN is working to improve in the Huon Valley.As a 26TEN Community, businesses, organisations, and individuals are working to help Huon Valley residents improve their adult literacy and numeracy skills, with everyone in the Huon Valley...

In time for Homelessness Week, the Huon Valley Council (HVC), in partnership with three other councils, has released five stories from individuals around southern Tasmania in the ‘I Am Somebody’ project from Monday, August 1 to Friday, August 5, to highlight the impact of housing stress and homelessness amongst the local community.Two of those stories included a focus on people in the Huon...

Image: From left, Nick, Broden and Saila were all keen to get planting on National Tree Day. National Tree Day on Friday, July 29 prompted some Huonville High School students to grow a green thumb for the day.  The Zayed Huon Energy Futures Team and the STEM group joined forces to plant out a shelter belt between both the high school and Huonville Primary School. Despite some mediocre...

Image: Lance Ryan, a regular in the Friday Night Games program and owner of Oxymoron Games, teaches one of his boardgame creations to participants. The Huon Valley Hub held the birthday celebrations to envy all birthdays last Friday night, honouring the first year anniversary of the Friday Night Games youth program.  The Friday Night Games program has become a much-welcomed part of the...

Local Landcare organisations are hoping to reform Waterwatch groups around the Valley, after the waning of interest and the need for more quality water testing in the Huon. Waterwatch began as a community water sampling program, primarily based at the Huon Valley Council (HVC), with reports and studies arising from data collected within the Waterwatch community helping to inform State...