Ramsay hits out a Regional Rail Link ‘cattle herding’
DELAYED and overcrowded services on Geelong’s new Regional Rail Link to Melbourne should be reviewed immediately, according to Western Victoria MLC Simon Ramsay.
Hundreds of...
Seaweed: smelly, slimy and an underwater jewel
IT'S often smelly, slimy and gets in the way of a nice walk on the beach - and being called a weed doesn't help...
Walking soccer players kick their heels up
GEELONG has been chosen as a test venue for a sport that is attracting growing support across the United Kingdom.
Walking Soccer, a modified version...
Annette Steward murder: Family plea, cold case $1million reward
EXCLUSIVE
By PAUL MILLAR
THE DAUGHTER of a Geelong West woman murdered in her Hope Street home in 1992 is hopeful that a $1million reward will...
Diana and Daz, a royal pictorial link …
By NOEL MURPHY
BRITAIN’S Lady Diana enjoyed a vexed relationship with the media but former paparazzi king and Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons remembers a woman...
$2m in Hussen tax agent case
By PAUL MILLAR
A TAX agent who allegedly fleeced trusting clients is expected to face up to 1200 charges relating to the theft of almost...
Double Take: Ohio, smoking, crime pays …
OHIO remains keen to make Geelong a sister city, if the Toledo Blade thunderer is anything to go by.
Blade columnist, former editor and vice...
Intervention comes too late as three men suffer lonely deaths
By PAUL MILLAR
AN ELDERLY man died in Geelong Hospital yesterday, days after the body of his carer son was found by a relative in...
Gripes over new bus routes, timetables
By NOEL MURPHY
NEW bus routes have left Highton residents high and dry - unable to readily get to doctors, banks or shops, MP Andrew...
Still got the blues for arts grants
BLUES icon Wayne Jury wasn’t exactly busking when he set up his trusty guitars at City Hall this week.
Rather, he was lending his...
Flu-fighters in big donor plea
By NOEL MURPHY
CALLING all Johns, Jennifers, Jessicas and ... well, it doesn’t matter what name, the Red Cross blood service is after anyone willing...
Buckets and bouquets
BOUQUETS to Ana at Geelong West library. Your conscientiousness is exemplary. You actively seek to help patrons and nothing seems too much trouble.
Geriatric, Herne...
Cruising across safer waters
Queenscliff community members can go swimming and boating in safer waters thanks to a new Coast Guard search and rescue vessel.
Marine Search...
