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Light ads ‘OK’

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN Twenty-metre high advertising signs on Kardinia Park’s light towers have received the go-ahead from the planning umpire. The Cats had wanted approval...
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City’s Armstrong Creek charges attacked

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN CITY Hall's Armstrong Creek plans have come under attack again, this time from a group of Horseshoe Bend landowners and developers. The...
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$1.5 million building for Latrobe Tce

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN A $1.5 MILLION apartment and office complex has been proposed for Geelong's high-profile intersection of Latrobe Tce and West Fyans St. The...
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Volunteers wanted as L-plate drivers begin road to Ps

Volunteers are the next target of a program helping teach disadvantaged youths to drive after a Geelong dealer provided two free cars this week. Winter...
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Sheriff-clamped car a CBD stall-wart

By NOEL MURPHY BRIGHT yellow Sheriff’s Office bunting around the clamped rear wheel of a silver Hyundai on central Geelong’s Corio St grabs the attention...
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Diorama offers rare panorama of early Geelong

By NOEL MURPHY IT’S A LONG time since any diorama of Geelong has looked as curious as the five-panel masterpiece of architect John Stuart Jackson. The...

City Hall ‘obstacles’ keep circuses at bay

By NOEL MURPHY City Hall obstacles are stopping circuses performing in Geelong, according to booking agent Raymond Deller. He lashed out at council for using spurious...

Free books put Myers project streets ahead

A “public-use bookshelf” will offer free reading material as part of streetscape works in central Geelong. Geelong’s council said the weather-proof bookshelf on Myers St...

Our minister with a mission in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a long way from the Anglican churches of Geelong. But Geoff Traill is there, bringing Christian care to Australian soldiers as a chaplain...

National park camping fee fury rising

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN New fees to camp in national parks will force caravans and campers to find alternatives, local enthusiasts have warned. Teesdale off-roaders Shirley...

Portarlington ferry set to run within a year

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN PORTARLINGTON could have its ferry service to Melbourne operating from the middle of next year, according to the town’s safe harbour...
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Double Take: Ford heave-ho

Spare a thought for the 120 workers getting the heave-ho at Ford in Geelong this week, which the company is trying to manage sympathetically. "Everyone's...

Prohibited weed infestation warning

Geelong residents should keep an eye out for a vibrant green floating plant with pale purple flowers after an infestation on a rural Anakie...

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