In brief
Tree approved
A $500,000 floating Christmas tree is set to light up Corio Bay after Geelong’s council this week agreed to deliver the decoration in...
Qantas staff taking off
By NOEL MURPHY
FIFTY-FOUR Qantas engineering staff leave Avalon Airport this Friday, marking the end of an era and 16 years of heavy maintenance work...
Heath call over mine
By NOEL MURPHY
PROTECTION of Anglesea heath must be written into any sale of Alcoa’s coal mine, according to local conservationists.
Dorothy Hutton, of Anglesea, Airey’s...
Double take
ST JOSEPH'S College’s 1st XVIII travelled to Ballarat for a pre-season match against St Patrick’s College to kickstart the school footy season.
The Joeys boys...
Graffiti assault on busy strip angers residents
By NOEL MURPHY
A GRAFFITI assault is making Minerva Rd a grubby, untidy mess, according to frustrated residents of Manifold Heights and Herne Hill.
Vandals have...
State angle for netting critics
By NOEL MURPHY
OPPONENTS to commercial netting in Corio Bay have called for a statewide ban.
Friends of Corio Bay Action Group ramped up its campaign...
Hopes blood to flow after milestone
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG’S blood service hopes to be overrun with first-time donors after one of its stalwarts gave his 200th donation this week.
Deputy...
Buckets and Bouquets
BUCKETS to a motorbike moron who attempted to fly on a Portarlington street. Show some real guts and take up skydiving - then you’ll...
Dark thriller rattles the tills …
IT’S back and it’s kicking tail like a man possessed – HBO’s spectacular Game of Thrones’ raunchy bloodfest formula, this week into its fourth...
Intruders shoot man at East Geelong
POLICE have issued a public plea for information after a man was shot by intruders at East Geelong overnight.
Two men entered a McNeil Avenue...
Yuletide row over Lyons’ Rio Xmas tree
GEELONG’S $500,000 Rio-style, Corio Bay Christmas tree has received a mixed response from punters on line.
Mayor Darryn Lyons’ Facebook account has been bombarded with...
Cell crisis till August
GEELONG – facing an over-crowded jail cell crisis – will get only 27 of a proposed 80 temporary prison beds, state government has announced.
Shadow...
Paddleboarders rescued on Christmas day
A woman and a teenager were rescued by police after they drifted from Portarlington to Werribee on their paddleboards on Christmas Day.
A 51-year-old woman...
