Local Legend: Peter snags a taste of success
Meat to please you: Veteran butcher Peter Hommelhoff is winning fans with his recipe for Vegemite and cheese sausages. Picture: Tommy Ritchie Andrew MathiesonWHEN...
Disabled agency opens up
Opening up: Sandra Dawson at work for Kommercial. Andrew MathiesonSMILING Sandra Dawson is no stranger to the limelight.
The packaging worker recently glammed up to...
Gathering ‘deadline’
Erin PearsonGEELONG Highland Gathering has until June to avoid folding, according to an organiser.
John Fraser said the event committee could keep operating for the...
‘Talk up’ your city to visitors
Talking it up: Nicholas Heath promotes the Geelong message. Picture: Tommy Ritchie 57528Andrew MathiesonTOURISM experts struggling to identify Geelong’s true identity have turned to...
Study ‘backing for horse trails’
Kim WatersCOUNCIL should adopt the recommendations of its own study into a proposed trail network on the Bellarine Peninsula to prevent “dangerous” conditions for...
Rival welcomes hospital plan
Erin PearsonEPWORTH Hospital’s chief executive has welcomed a $56.3 million plan to expand St John of God Hospital in Geelong despite planning a competitor...
‘Lost’ box of votes found as Lib Katos steps up
Family guy: Andrew Katos and wife Vicky with children Evan, Jack, Zac and Christian. Kim Waters and Erin PearsonTHE LIBERALS were clinging to hope...
Trip to Japan brings electric cars ‘closer’
Kim WatersGEELONG is a step closer to securing an exclusive trial of electric cars, according to a councillor.
Councillor John Doull told the Independent...
Haydon makes splash for MS
Lapping it up: Shannon Byrnes joins Haydon Loader after the mega swim.A 12-YEAR-OLD Newcomb boy has raised a third of the proceeds from an...
Council set for ‘final’ appointment of mayor
Kim WatersGEELONG'S final council-elected mayor will be revealed on Monday night, according to a State Government spokesperson.
The spokesperson for Premier-elect Ted Baillieu said...
Rising bills fail to pull plug on Geelong’s Christmas lights displays
Andrew MathiesonA SERIES of overcharged electricity bills has failed to stop one of Geelong’s iconic Christmas displays lighting up again.
Jeannette Smith said her home...
He dumped, ‘you pay’
Kim WatersA GEELONG demolition company director must pay more than $70,000 in fines for dumping and abandoning 15 tonnes of asbestos in Moolap, a...
St Peters takes the points
Independent photographer Ivan Kemp was at Herne Hill Reserve’s Walker Oval on Saturday to see St Peters defeat Lara on a cold and windy...
