Tag: Geelong
Fatigue illness spreads in city
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Chronic fatigue syndrome is spreading around Geelong, according to a local support group.
Chronic Fatigue/ME Support group’s Sue Collins said more people...
White maggie is ‘one in a million’
By NOEL MURPHY
WHAT’S black and white and sends Cats fans nuts?
Hold on, better make that white and white … at least, that’s the colouring...
Dragon to fire up for Geelong …
By NOEL MURPHY
GOOD songs have a happy knack of longevity, as Todd Hunter will happily attest.
Playing at Christchurch’s Great Kiwi Beer Festival in March...
Barwon Prison guard earns bravery award
A BARWON Prison officer who intervened in a violent confrontation between two prisoners has received one of Corrections Victoria’s highest honours, the Medal of...
Marathon for medical marijuana
By NOEL MURPHY
TRY this next time you’re feeling fit. Squat so your hands and feet are flat on the ground. Next, jump and kick your...
Strip club hot under collar over bikie report
A GEELONG strip club operator has reacted angrily to reports of bikie gang links after a security staffer turned away eight Bandidos at the...
Lara man missing, hut burned, car empty
POLICE are appealing for public help to find missing Lara man Murray McMillan.
Mr McMillan was last seen at his home address on 14 April and...
Forgotten hero memorial plan
By Paul Millar
GEELONG'S Norm Lane paid the ultimate price in the service of his country.
But even residents of the suburb named after him, Norlane,...
Closter kicked on in Vietnam
By Paul Millar
FORMER Geelong Cats favourite Wayne Closter spilled blood while serving in Vietnam.
But it was on a football field rather than a war...
Our Brendan missing ‘sweetheart’
DRYSDALE’s Brendan Fox is living a lifelong dream as an army “termite” in the Middle East.
Deployed to Al Minhad Air Base in the United...
Local heroes typified Anzac spirit
By NOEL MURPHY
'We are the ragtime army,
The A-N-Z-A-C,
We cannot shoot, we won’t salute,
What bloody good are we?
And when we get to Berlin
The Kaiser he...
Tiny wetsuit a swell gift for George
A TINY Torquay wetsuit could make a mini surfer out of royal baby Prince George.
Surf company Rip Curl has produced a size-two neoprene garment...
A track of success
Brian Cook did not know what he wanted to do until he was in his 20s, leading him down a career path of success....
