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,...