Deakin welcomes new Grovedale station
The new Grovedale railway station has been welcomed by Deakin Vice Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander.
“Grovedale Station can’t come soon enough as far as...
Grovedale’s $26 million station
Geelong residents are set to receive a brand new train station with Premier Denis Napthine announcing funding to begin construction on the $25.9 million...
Program’s big bite of unused food
By MICHELLE HERBISON
AN ORGANISATION providing welfare agencies with unused food delivered 200,000kg of fresh produce in Geelong last year, according to its records.
SecondBite’s two...
Gallipoli Zahn’s lesson never to forget Anzacs
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IT was the quietness of the confined battlefields that struck Zahn Gane most as he walked slowly across the tiny beach...
Shirley keeps great-uncle’s memory alive
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GEORGE Wilfred Stewart was just nine days off his 24th birthday when he was killed in the Third Battle of Ypres, France,...
20th swap meet to proceed on a Black day
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE members of Western District Historic Car Club will miss one of their own when a 20th annual Geelong Bay City...
A day for Ern to remember
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
AT 93, Geelong’s Rat of Tobruk, Ern Brough, is still full of war-time stories and loves a good laugh.
But the jollity...
Torquay RSL looks forward to Anzac Day at home
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
ANZAC Day commemorates the past but this year Torquay Returned and Services League president Kevin Egan is looking to the future.
Mr Egan...
Grovedale station car parks criticised
State Government had misled Grovedale residents about the number of car parks at the suburbs new station, according to City of Greater Geelong Transport...
Buckets & Bouquets
BUCKETS to all the dog droppings in St Leonards, especially in the lane between Dudley Pde and Murradoc Rd. I am tired to trying...
Singer’s beaut ute
By MICHELLE HERBISON
AUSTRALIAN country music idol Lee Kernaghan’s Geelong gigs draw the “finest array” of utes and 4WDs to venues’ car parks.
“I think Geelong...
Get ‘smarts’ India
By MICHELLE HERBISON
MELBOURNE indie rock band British India is heading to Geelong following last month’s release of their fourth album Controller.
The band’s 18 May...
Find your new best friend at GAWS
Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS) has reminded potential cat buyers that kittens are not just for Christmas.
The not-for-profit organisation, which received nearly 60 kittens...
