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Arterial link, lights keys at Grove talks

By MICHELLE HERBISON CHANGING Ocean Grove’s arterial link and installing traffic lights at a busy intersection emerged as key ideas at a council-run urban design...

Plant a threat, says air group

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN ALCOA would be prohibited from operating its Anglesea power station in the United States because it would breach environmental standards, according...

Top spot Loam to close

Top local restaurant Loam is to close after four award-winning years. The Bellarine Peninsula venue is located on a Marcus Oldham College campus at Drysdale,...

New Alcoa review casts cloud over Geelong

Alcoa has announced a review of its global aluminium smelting business, casting another cloud over the future of 600 workers at its Geelong plant. Alcoa...

Library gets temporary home

Geelong library will relocate to the ground floor of the state offices building to make way for the start of construction of the new...

Milestone men are the Cat’s miaow

Mercurial forward Steve Johnson is a coach in the making, believes Geelong coach Chris Scott. Scott said Johnson would be virtually a walk-up start as...

Man dies in Newcomb house fire

An 87-year-old man has died in hospital following a house fire in Newcomb this morning. The man’s neighbours entered the Alma Court house after noticing...

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,...

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Gender equity awards open for nominations

Organisers of the third Recalibrate Gender Equity Awards have put the call out for nominations following the 2024 launch event in Melbourne last week. Founded...