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How can fifty cents be worth more than $1,000? (April 2008)
Whose funeral was it? (July 2007)
It's on again -- and "Grease" is the word in the mine this time! (July 2007)
It never rains but (in Walhalla) it pours! (July 2007)

Really old news -- articles from the "Chronicle"

Walhalla's Dependence on Timber, May, 1997
Walhalla's Italians, May and September, 2001
An Earlier View of Walhalla's Italians, May, 1995
The Great Walhalla Fire Cart Trip of 1955, December, 2003
When Electricity First Came to Walhalla, February, 1884
"A Sporting Life" - Walhalla Style, 1996 (reprinted from 1979)
The Rebirth of the Long Tunnel Cannon, 1996
Safari to Walhalla on Horseback, 2000 (first published in 1917)

N E W S A R C H I V E S (from this website, only much earlier on ...)

Centenary Cricket Match (March 2007)
Bushfire wrap-up 4/1/07. (January 2007)
Railway services suspended December 9-10 due to fire danger (December 2006)
Inaugural Family Christmas Party cancelled due to bushfire threat. (December 2006)
Enjoy a meal and a movie in the mountains. (No, wait -- in the mountain!) (July 2006)
Walhalla incinerated! (Well, not quite ...) (February 2006)
Ghost Tours of Walhalla! (June 2005)
Trembath Family Reunion planned (June 2005)
Fifty years later, right on time! (March 2005)
Restoring the Heritage League's Heritage (February 2005)
Inaugural Walhalla Open Day -- December 12th (November 2004)
Packhorse Ride Appeal (September 2004)
Restored Long Tunnel Extended Mine reopens (September 2004)
New group tour Gold Pass announced (July 2004)
New (old) print shop (re-)opens!! (November 2003)
Famous Landslides of 2002 (refreshed May 2003)
Welcome to the refurbished WH&DL website (April 2003)
Walhalla Goldfields Railway runs again! (March 2002)
Museums Seminar at City of Latrobe (October 2001)
Volunteer working bee installs more Heritage signs (August 2001)
"A Toast To The Days Of Gold" symposium (July 2001)
Visit to Traralgon & District Historical Society (May 2001)
Clean Up Australia Day (March 2001)
Walhalla's Water Wheels, February, 2001
Our sad loss -- Death of Valma Plant, AOM (August, 2000)

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With the return of the Walhalla Goldfields Railway and the recent opening of the League's print-shop, we hope to also use this page to link to articles about Walhalla from the press at large and in particular for links to more articles from earlier issues of our quarterly publication, the "Walhalla Chronicle, Moondarra, Toombon and Woods Point Times". If you're interested in subscribing, click here for subscription and membership details.

Here's an example, from the February 22, 2004, Melbourne "Age" -- just bear in mind that the author's estimates of time and distance are in fact for a round trip.