Cats back on track
Local Cricket, by Jim Timberlake
Geelong Cricket Club has its season somewhat back on track, going down fighting last Saturday against Fitzroy Doncaster, before...
Rare show of bottles
A National Bottle and Collectables Show will come to Geelong for the first time in its 45-year history this weekend.
The show will feature collections...
United in song with moves to match
By Luke Voogt
Northern Bay College student and Bollywood fanatic Zahra Hussaini can’t wait to dance in Music Australia’s Count Us In next month.
“I was...
Trek of discovery
By Luke Voogt
North Geelong refugee students had their first taste of Australian bushland in a three-day trek near Bendigo this month.
“It was the first...
Street fight over mental health bid
By Luke Voogt
A proposal to house mentally ill people in a residential Thomson street has outraged parents.
Haven Foundation’s proposal for 46 Lomond Terrace has...
Double Take
First it was popular music.
Then came the fashions.
And now it’s clowns.
Yes, American culture has extended the oversized novelty glove of its latest cultural trend...
‘Hit-run’ stamps number plate on chasing vehicle
By Luke Voogt
A driver fleeing a Corio crash imprinted his rego on a car chasing him when he backed into it to escape, his...
Ferry ‘returns for tourist season’
By Luke Voogt
Portarlington’s ferry is likely to return in November for the tourist season, according to a local campaigner.
Port Phillip Ferries released a...
Green homes opening up
By Luke Voogt
Thomson’s Ernesto Sanchez will show all he can do with a small patch of land when he opens his garden to the...
Funding urged as GOR battles slips
The State Government must “immediately” fund repairs to the Great Ocean Road as landslips threaten to undermine it after recent flooding, parliament has heard.
“There...
From the archives
16 years ago
20 November, 2009
A 20-year-old Leopold man who seriously injured two passenger when he drove his car off a cliff has walked free...
