$60m brewery flowing
By NOEL MURPHY
LITTLE Creatures’ $60 million brewery has made its first ales in the lead-up to opening at South Geelong’s former Valley Mill later...
Buckets and bouquets
BUCKETS to a woman in a Camry for failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing in Highton, nearly running down my son and I...
ABC staffing local bureau
By NOEL MURPHY
THE ABC is about to set up a Geelong multimedia news bureau across radio, TV and social media platforms.
A video-journalist, a producer...
Legal aid fears over NDIS HQ
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG’S DisabilityCare headquarters will ramp up pressure on the city’s legal aid centres, according to Community Law Australia (CLA).
Centres such as Villamanta...
Hospital project finds historic link to Melba
By NOEL MURPHY
BARWON Health’s original Geelong Kitchener Memorial Hospital building might now be gone but its foundation stone - laid by Dame Nellie Melba...
JOIN THE CLUB: Guardians of our hazardous coast
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IT’S THE nastiest stretch of water in the world when it’s playing up, but the Queenscliff coast guard blokes brave it...
Opportunity beckons in ‘Aviation city’
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
GEELONG has an opportunity to “step up and become an aviation city”, according to a pilot training business owner.
Sky Thrills owner and...
Street art chalks up a surprise
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
MANY tried and failed to pull legendary sword Excalibur from its stone resting place - just like this 3D chalk radish set...
Huge support backing Tutungi
By NOEL MURPHY
EMOTION and selflessness have marked a massive community desire to help South Barwon footballer Casey Tutungi, struck down a quadriplegic after a...
Women no longer skirt success
NAIVETY plus belief - those were the two ingredients behind Rebecca Martin’s success in creating her own three-store home wares and clothing brand.
“When I...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Conducting a classic
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
WHO knew classic cartoon character Wile E Coyote could have anything in common with a classical music conductor?
Johann Strauss Ensemble conductor...
’I’m sorry you had to wait’: Paramedics hit lack of resources, low pay
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG paramedics are urging their managers to take up the cudgels for more resources, better pay and a new ambulance administration.
About 200...
Absurd and risqué comedy
Kate Hanley Corley will compare histories of parenting while exploring her Geelong roots in her signature absurd and risqué style of comedy.
The...
