60 rape reports to local cops sex complaints up
Alex de VosComplaints of sexual assault have risen 16 per cent over the past year at the region’s major counselling and referral service.
Barwon Centre...
$7000 charge set for blocks
Jane EmerickTorquay property owners face a $7000 slug for subdividing their blocks.
A spokesperson said Surf Coast Shire was investigating whether to levy a charge...
Our ‘green’ drought
Andrew MathiesonTHE Halls now know a thing or two about the “green drought” gripping local farms.
They can explain how the ongoing droughts is not...
Expo firm ‘threat to’ free event
Andrew MathiesonA NATIONAL company wants to muscle in on a not-for-profit careers expo with 20 years of service to Geelong.
But Employment of Choice (EOC)...
Firm cottoning on to rag trade growth
Hamish HeardFew would have thought that when 19yearold Nigel Austin took a box full of acidwash denim jackets to flog at a Geelong market...
Link for advice to schoolies says: How to get wasted
Hamish HeardA new Surf Coast Shire website to attract schoolies to Torquay directs revellers to information about “safe” use of alcohol and drugs.
The shire...
Red faces in fight on wedge drop-in
Hamish HeardGeelong’s Mayor for a Day got more than he bargained for when his presence at a sensitive council meeting sparked a shouting match...
Call for councillor on charge to stand down
Hamish HeardA Geelong councillor yesterday demanded colleague David Saunderson stand down from council while he awaited a court appearance on a charge of breaking...
Geelong in bid to find gold
Hamish HeardProspectors want to search for gold in hills north-west of Geelong.
Sydney firm Goldalot will begin the search if it wins a green light...
Subsidy hits queues for LPG
Andrew MathiesonWaits for auto gas conversions at local workshops have stretched out to next year in the wake of a $2000 Federal Government subsidy...
Kill bid over ‘river rabbit’
A final solution to Australia’s plague of noxious carp could flow from a Geelong laboratory.
Researchers at Newcomb’s CSIRO Livestock Industries’ Australian Animal Health Laboratory...
Try this, Clarrie – a hero award
BY ANDREW MATHIESONSIXTY-three-year-old Clarrie Kerger played the boards when basketball was different to the hoopla it is today.
Back then the three-point arc was a...
Hunter wants to prove he is his own man
Geelong draftee Hunter Holmes is relishing being reunited with new assistant coach Nathan Buckley as he sets out to prove he's his own man...
