Surf Coast bans caged animals circuses
By NOEL MURPHY
SURF Coast Shire has banned circuses with caged exotic animals despite operators' pleas to prove their welfare credentials.
The decision will frustrate the...
Musos mourn loss of Sweethearts’ Ross Lipson
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG'S music industry is in mourning after Sweethearts founder and 25-year director Ross Lipson this week succumbed to cancer.
The 57-year-old music teacher...
Double Take: Man-o-war, Ed’s head, Brod and Cat …
THE legend of a Portuguese man of war landing on the local coastline was revived at Torquay this week.
But this time there was a...
Matthew Flinders school caught up in slush fund claims
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MATTHEW Flinders Girls Secondary College is under investigation as part of an alleged $28 million Education Department slush fund.
The school was...
70 find jobs as second-largest Coles opens at Lara
MORE than 70 people began new jobs when a new Coles supermarket opened at Lara this week.
The company said the workers joined 40 existing...
Birds up for climate change, says Deakin research
BIRDS might have greater resistance to environmental impacts like climate change than previously thought, according to new Geelong research.
The finding emerged from a study...
Jean’s looking good after 100 years
NEWTOWN'S Jean Richardson always jokes about someone making a miscalculation when they bring up her age.
“She says she doesn’t feel she’s 100,” says granddaughter...
Buckets and Bouquets
BOUQUETS to Riding for the Disabled volunteers for generously giving their time and expertise to Nelson Park School students for their horse-riding program. A...
Cricket: Cats find form
JIM TIMBERLAKE
GEELONG Cricket Club could complete only one of two scheduled Twenty20 matches last weekend after rain washed out the entire Sunday fixture.
But on...
Motor City the next trick for Broderick Smith
By NOEL MURPHY
FEW musicians can turn their hand to as many tricks as blues legend Broderick Smith.
The singer-songwriter and blues harp Aussie icon might...
Perfect storm facing mental health
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MENTAL health services in the Barwon region are suffering a “perfect storm” of funding uncertainty, reduced services and difficulty coping with...
Don’t Miss this Saigon show
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
SOME seminal moments in history live on in the public memory, and the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War was...
26-year drought ends as Anglesea wins flag
Anglesea came from 5th on the ladder to topple minor premiers Geelong Amateur to win its first Bellarine Football League flag in 26 years...
