Mayor Dazza comes out of the closet
HE MIGHT make the odd faux pas on Twitter but Darryn Lyons takes shock and awe to a new level when it comes to...
Pros arriving as Rip Curl Pro wipe-out forecast
PROFESSIONAL surfers have begun arriving at Bells Beach as Easter’s Rip Curl Pro faces forecasts of a wipe-out.
Reigning world champion Gabriel Medina was among...
Sea Change blows an ill wind for St Leonards
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE SEA change blown in by the ABC TV series of the same name has finally reached one of its quaint...
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SURF Coast Shire has withdrawn a parking fine against surfing legend Maurice Cole after he complained officers targetted him at Bells Beach...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...
Leopold up for exciting challenge
After losing its round 1 clash by seven shots, Leopold’s Division 1 Geelong Bowls Region side has put together a solid two-game block with...
