Bisinella You Yangs quarry faces a fight
By NOEL MURPHY
ANXIOUS green activists are marshalling resources against plans for an 80-hectare sand quarry in the foothills of the You Yangs.
The Bisinella group...
Shire rips up Cole fine after ‘victim’ claim
By NOEL MURPHY
SURF Coast Shire has withdrawn a parking fine against surfing legend Maurice Cole after he complained officers targetted him at Bells Beach...
Double Take: Cockatoo, surf pros drop in …
THERE'S a new top cocky in town.
Mayor Darryn Lyons and his multi-hued cockatoo hairdo have been supplanted by the latest sensation in Geelong -...
NBN slug to push up land prices
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
LAND buyers throughout Geelong face extra costs of up to $1900 a lot under a new National Broadband Network (NBN) greenfields...
Police ‘close in’ on Kingsbury killer
By PAUL MILLER
POLICE expect to make further arrests over the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Leopold man whose body remains missing.
Police have so...
Dad’s brain cancer prompts son’s fitness fundraiser
By PAUL MILLAR
THE devastating news of his father’s aggressive brain cancer has prompted a Geelong fitness instructor to launch a fundraising campaign.
Tom Boyle said...
Sacred Heart functions could be ‘disturbance’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
NEIGHBOURS potentially face “sleep disturbance“ from a function centre hosting weddings and parties at a Newtown college, according to a planning...
Queenscliff festival schedule to have edge on diversity
ISSUES ranging from Aboriginal disadtantage to the treatment of refugees and “the LGBTI community” will be on the agenda at a Queenscliff festival.
Organisers officially...
Forum heats up super trawler brawl
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE BATTLE between commercial and recreational fishers over controversial trawler Geelong Star has sharpened following a forum between both groups.
The 90-metre...
Art dealer Gant sweats on Whiteley fraud case
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG art dealer Peter Gant is awaiting a Melbourne Magistrates’ Court ruling to find out whether he will go to trial over...
Old shoes? A load of cobblers!
By ELISSA FRIDAY
WHILE we need to wear shoes most of the time, some of us love buying them even when they’re not really needed.
Shoes...
Buckets and bouquets
BOUQUETS to Geelong East Men’s Shed for a second mini-DVD player cabinet created for me to exact measurements. The shed members are such friendly...
‘Drove him crazy’: man kills scooter rider over affair
A jealous man killed a former close friend after being driven "crazy" over his girlfriend's affair with him.
Following his release from prison for an...
