Shooter fears curb big cat reports
By NOEL MURPHY
A FEAR of luring cowboy shooters into the local bushland keeps farmers from reporting more sightings of big cats and Tasmanian tigers,...
Port tones for festival
By PAUL MILLAR
SEA farmers are toning up their mussels for Portarlington’s annual festival, to ensure they can meet the growing demand for the molluscs.
Organisers...
Candidates’ battlelines are drawn for local seats
By PAUL MILLAR
THE Liberal Party will make a concentrated attack on Lisa Neville’s seat of Bellarine at the next election.
Liberal stalwart Angelo Kakouros expected...
Alcoa closure to slam economy
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG’S economy could lose up to a quarter of a billion dollars if Alcoa is to close its Point Henry plant as...
Family fears for escapee’s safety
By PAUL MILLAR
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a troubled Geelong man - who fled a minimum security jail - fearing that he could...
Bio-tech cure for Geelong loss: Drug maker in Ford plan
By NOEL MURPHY
FORD’S North Geelong plant could be converted to a multi-million dollar pharmaceutical manufacturing site if a Sydney cell biologist has his way.
Managing...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Mi-Sex playing computer games
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
EIGHTIES rock icons Mi-Sex made a pact a couple of years ago.
"We will get together and perform at least a few...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Hugo’s local live music boost
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GEELONG'S music scene may have changed a lot over the 20 years since Hugo T Armstrong founded Queenscliff’s The Blues Train but...
Bird flu hits egg supply
By PAUL MILLAR
LOCAL egg producers are being inundated with calls to help make up a shortfall in supplies, following an outbreak of bird flu...
Keeping boats right side up
By PAUL MILLAR
BOAT owners will receive a few lessons in reality during an awareness campaign at the Ocean Grove boat ramp on Sunday.
The theme...
Cheesy mayor hams it up in new venture
By PAUL MILLAR
DARRYN Lyons, the mayor with attitude, is now a part-owner of Pizzas with Attitude.
The councillor with the rainbow plumage, however, said that...
‘Put our city up on big screen’
By PAUL MILLAR
LOCAL councillor Eddy Kontelj has floated the idea of erecting a big screen in the heart of the city to help revitalise...
From the archives
16 years
September 11, 2009
VICROADS is compiling a list of “rogue” truckies to address complaints about noise from Geelong’s bypass, according to an MP.
Member for...
