Sun to shine in Child for GPAC
By MICHELLE HERBISON
NEW York actor Nilaja Sun started performing her solo stage-show No Child with its Australian theme in 2006 without ever expecting it...
Tim’s Canadian Celtic
By MICHELLE HERBISON
CANADIAN singer-songwriter Tim Chaisson feels a “duty” to carry on his family’s musical traditions, spanning six generations.
Growing up immersed in Celtic traditions...
Exhibitions capture Geelong spirit
By NOEL MURPHY
YOUTHS lounging at Eastern Beach, Buckley as interpreter in Batman’s talks with the Wathaurong, a brooding Corio Bay, the You Yangs by...
Ritz in call for council power
By NOEL MURPHY
TIGHTER laws are needed to help councils use repair orders to safeguard heritage buildings, according to the head of Deakin University’s architecture...
12th transport study under way
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG'S council will spend $150,000 on a 12th transport-related study to be under way in the region.
G21 Geelong Alliance, GHD Consultants,...
Proposal to renew fountain ’ignored’
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A COUNCIL officers’ report on refurbishing Clifton Springs’ fountain lacks vision and “ignores local people’s views”, according to a working group spokesperson.
Drysdale...
Students deliver class acts in GPAC drama program
SECONDARY students will work with professional actors and theatre technicians to produce their own shows in a series of workshops at Geelong Performing Arts...
Traders, users split on future of buses in city
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A REVIEW of central Geelong’s bus interchange should recommend relocation because loitering youths are deterring more business than buses have attracted, traders...
Free rides as myki ‘outages’ hit buses
By MICHELLE HERBISON
THE abolition of short-term bus tickets could have caused a recent “spate of outages” on Geelong buses’ myki systems, according to Public...
Landcare awards to ‘invaluable’ volunteers
VOLUNTEERS caring for farmland and natural environments have earned awards from the region’s catchment manager.
Corangamite Catchment Management Authority bestowed its 11 annual Landcare awards...
Trades Hall enters storage stoush
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG Trades Hall could throw its weight behind a campaign against a chemical storage plant proposed for North Geelong.
Trades Hall will vote...
Cow’s eye cancers cost farmer $5000
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A NEGLECTFUL farmer’s two cows with painful eye cancer waited months to be put out of their misery before an anonymous complaint...
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Tolhurst steps down
Isabelle Tolhurst has resigned as Borough of Queenscliffe’s mayor, with councillor Ross Ebbels stepping in to take her place.
Cr Tolhurst announced her resignation as...
