2 years ago
December 24, 2021
Pako Festa will be back in 2022, but it will look a lot different to usual with the festival to move from Pakington Street.
Multicultural organisation Diversitat has announced the 40th street festival will be shifted away from its traditional home to the Northern Community Hub in Norlane due to COVID-19 requirements. The festival will include the traditional food stalls, a celebration of diverse cultures, entertainment and a new twist on the traditional parade.
4 years ago
December 20, 2019
Million-dollar home sales have plummeted almost 40 per cent in Geelong, the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula for 2019.
Just 342 homes cracked seven digits this year, down 218 from 560 in 2018.
6 years ago
December 22, 2017
Lorne’s Falls Festival should scrap a program paying voluntary workers with tickets amid concerns of exploitation, according to a local unions leader.
“If workers are going to do the work, the employers have got to pay the rates,” said Geelong Trades Hall secretary Colin Vernon.
8 years ago
December 25, 2015
Bystanders watched motionless at a distance as Adam Pearse frantically rescued a woman trapped upside down in a mangled, upturned four-wheel drive about to burst into flames.
He was among four locals to receive bravery awards from the Royal Humane Society of Australasia at Melbourne’s Government House this month.
