Hearing again with new aids
By ANDREW HUMPHRIES
WHEN I left school I began working in factories amid loud machinery and, for fun, I played piano in bands three nights...
Young Warriors’ Vic Country call-up
By JOSIP ZILIC
North Geelong Warriors have helped nine juniors earn selection to represent Vic Country in a National Youth Championships.
Football Federation Australia (FFA) uses...
Rampant North in form but still wary of Ranges
By Josip Zilic
NORTH Geelong Warriors must tread wearily this Saturday against Whittlesea Ranges to maintain their promotion charge in National Premier League.
Whittlesea will be buoyed...
Bride ‘marries poetry, music’
By Emily Iannello
WHILE Australian students learn Shakespeare some of their counterparts in London study Gwen Harwood.
The standing of the Australian poet in the UK...
Choral groups joining forces
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
TWO OF Geelong’s leading choral groups are joining forces to banish the dull and dreary winter blues with a special Father’s...
Wolfgang lands riesige forellen (or, in English, huge trout)
VISITING German Wolfgang Hilderbrand wanted to sample local freshwater fishing but chose the difficult challenge of Wurdee Boluc Reservoir last week.
Wolfgang’s mudeye under a...
Woolies’ $29m spend at Highton, Curlewis
WOOLWORTHS will spend $29 million building two new shopping centres in the Geelong region, the company has announced.
Four-hundred jobs will flow from the “Barrabool...
Big firms eye Alcoa site
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
SEVERAL multinational companies have expressed interest in Alcoa’s Point Henry site, Mayor Darryn Lyons has revealed.
Cr Lyons told a Geelong Business...
‘Unsafe’ GPAC needs $140m upgrade
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG Performing Arts Centre is “unsafe” and “no longer fit for purpose”, according to a funding submission.
The GPAC board's $140 million...
Viva Las Vegas victory for our aerodance champions
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG’S aerodance team has come home with gold medals from an International Aerobic Championships in Las Vegas.
The six 15 and 16-year-olds...
Double Take
GEELONG coach Chris Scott was as nonplussed as anyone over the Stevie J jumper-ripping incident against Fremantle last Saturday.
“Interesting tactic, rip a player’s jumper...
In Brief
$4.6b call
Geelong is part of a push for a $4.6 billion funding injection into regional roads and public transport.
Regional Cities Victoria, of which Geelong...
Guthrie lends Stewart support
Zach Guthrie has backed Geelong's tight defensive unit to cover Tom Stewart's absence in the AFL grand final as he wraps his arms around...
