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$100m apartments bid ‘to create jobs for 1000’

By NOEL MURPHY A $100 MILLION project of 500 student apartments a stone’s throw from Deakin University’s Waterfront campus is the latest big-ticket building project...

FINALLY FRIDAY: Jury’s wild ride

By CHERIE DONNELLAN THE Soul Rectifiers gigs are like "rollercoaster rides", according to vocalist and guitarist Wayne Jury. “Sometimes we go to places that get a...

SPORT: Kennett quiet

By NOEL MURPHY HAWTHORN hoodoo Jeff Kennett was uncharacteristically quiet ahead of the preliminary final clash between the Cats and the Hawks. With this week’s game...

JOIN THE CLUB: Cricket caught out for umpies

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN ANYONE who ever wanted to be in the middle of Melbourne Cricket Ground might find the pathway begins at Geelong Cricket...

KP lights in ad bid

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN A PROPOSAL for advertising signage on Simonds Stadium’s light towers will go to a planning panel. Geelong’s council and the Cats want...

State ‘putting girls’ regatta at risk’

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN STATE Government "stalling" on a $250,000 funding commitment is putting at risk Geelong Head of the Schoolgirls regatta, according to Member...

Buckets & Bouquets

BOUQUETS to Geelong Blinds Company’s Shane for fantastic customer service. I visited a few times with enquiries and he was always a pleasure to...

ON THE BITE: Snapper start annual run

By BRIAN LONG Mid-September is generally when the run of bay snapper begins, with numbers increasing over the past week. John Pierce landed his first red...

Author ‘feels like Nostradamus’ over fixing

By NOEL MURPHY GEELONG author Neil Humphreys feels “a bit like Nostradamus” over Victoria’s A-league soccer scandal. The central character in his 2010 best-selling novel, Match...

Geelong pilot to formulate national policy: City to set well-being standard

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN GEELONG is serving as a pilot community for a new measure of Australian wellbeing and progress that will play a key...

‘Mega board’ to fund city tourism

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN A PROPOSED Geelong-Bellarine Peninsula tourism board will have to apply for funding from a new industry authority it refused to join. Tourism...

Reading cinema in systems ’first’

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN THE curtains will open on Australian cinematic first when Reading Waurn Ponds unveils a state-of-the-art digital projection and sound system. Reading manager...

Stengle out, Cat to debut

Star Geelong forward Tyson Stengle is out of Saturday's AFL game against Richmond for family reasons, with George Stevens to make his senior debut. The...