JOIN THE CLUB: Country club’s making music
BY JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE LOVE of a bit of twang accompanied by some slide guitar has made an enormous contribution to the Geelong community.
While...
Locals of all ages caught playing up in book
A NEW book documents Geelong residents of all ages playing up.
Geelong based charity Bluebird Foundation commissioned Playing Up to explore human development through games...
Lyons on steep learning curve
By NOEL MURPHY
HIS FEET have hardly touched the ground since being propelled into Geelong’s mayoral office but Darryn Lyons is doing little to ease...
V/Line charges $27K too much
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
HUNDREDS of Geelong rail commuters are out of pocket an average $17.45 each after V/Line overcharged on date-to-date tickets, according to...
Special force targets local firebugs
By NOEL MURPHY
POLICE have placed local firebugs on notice with a ramped up assault on deliberately-lit bushfires this summer.
Specially-trained officers across Geelong and the...
SPORT: Cats form threat to place in eight
BY JIM TIMBERLAKE
GEELONG Cricket Club went down to Prahran then Essendon in a disastrous Twenty20 double header at Warrnambool last Saturday.
The Cats batsman failed...
SPORT: Fishing hard work but worthwhile amid variability
BY BRIAN LONG
VARIABLE conditions forced anglers to work hard for fish over the past week.
Many anglers spent the first full weekend of the cod...
SPORT: Warriors’ NPL chance
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE GEELONG region could have three bids for a National Premier League (NPL) soccer licence after a legal challenge to the...
FINALLY FRIDAY: He sounds Swede, bro
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A UNIQUE style of organ Dustin Tebbutt played in Sweden captured his attention so strongly that after failing to buy one on...
Teacher in student’s ANZAC steps
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A GEELONG teacher who encouraged one of his students to apply for a study tour was so impressed he decided to...
Kelly barks on thanks to fund
By NOEL MURPHY
LARA’S Russell Langfield was so distraught when he learnt his darling girl, Kelly, had a cancerous lump on her lung that he...
Belmont trades on festive spirit
BY MICHELLE HERBISON
BELMONT'S traders are pioneering a collective Christmas spirit with a series of white elves dancing along High St shop windows this month....
From the archives
18 years ago
21 December, 2007
A funding shortfall of at least $25 million has cast doubt over a pre-election promise of a recycling plant to...
