80’s enough for loved school crossing veteran Kirke
By NOEL MURPHY
EVEN the teachers are battling to keep a roll-call like Torquay school crossing supervisor Kirke White.
The octogenarian traffic veteran knows every kid...
March of drier days proceeds
GEELONG received below-average rain in March, continuing a long-term trend of drier weather for the month.
Geelong’s urban area averaged 28mm compared to the long-term...
MP’s abalone option for Ford staff
SACKED Ford workers could end up processing abalone for Asian markets, according to a Liberal MP.
David Koch said the region’s first aquaculture processing facility...
MP slams City on trucks trial
By NOEL MURPHY
CITY Hall’s contentious central city truck re-routing is dangerous, according to Geelong MP Ian Trezise.
Up to 1000 extra trucks had moved from...
Buckets & Bouquets
BUCKETS to a young girl who left her wallet on the roof of her car at Bell Post Shopping Centre. I picked up the...
Candidates murmur Tweet nothings
By NOEL MURPHY
THE twitterverse is slowly moving into the consciousness of Geelong’s state politicians and candidates.
Mayor Darryn Lyons romped into office on the back...
Watchdog bites employers
Staff ripped off
By NOEL MURPHY
A PHARMACIST underpaid almost $14,000 was among 84 Geelong complaints to the Fair Work Ombudsman over the past six months,...
PM’s artefacts booked in for show
By NOEL MURPHY
ANY BOOK 440 years old will take on a weather-beaten appearance but the tome Kristen Thornton produced this week at Deakin University...
Changing core
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GEELONG musician Sam Burtt might have surprised his hard-core bandmates when he revealed he’d been tinkering with indie rock but they were...
Daylight saving ends
Daylight saving ends this Sunday at 3am.
People should turn their clocks back by one hour when they go to bed on Saturday night.
Daylight saving...
Double-barrel shotgun terror strikes family at Corio
UPDATE:
A CORIO family was left “extremely traumatised” when a shotgun-wielding bandit jumped the counter of a Goldsworthy Rd milk bar to menace them in...
Egg warning lifted after Torquay’s Bottle of Milk salmonella outbreak
THE Department of Health has lifted its warning on Green Eggs after more than 200 people became ill eating food with raw egg at...
‘Drove him crazy’: man kills scooter rider over affair
A jealous man killed a former close friend after being driven "crazy" over his girlfriend's affair with him.
Following his release from prison for an...
