Tag: News
Bay link bid ‘revived’
JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
VicRoads should include a Corio Bay crossing in plans to extend Geelong’s ring road extension to the Bellarine Peninsula, according to Mayor...
Mates to rise again from sea floor during Bill’s ANZAC Day
A different time: Bill Huggins dons his medals in preparation for ANZAC Day. KIM WATERS
Mates who died at the bottom of the sea will...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Country girls
Singin’ sisters: The McClymonts are in town.ERIN PEARSON
COUNTRY music has shed its daggy image, according to the McClymont sisters.
“We’re not the typical cowboy-hat-and-cowboy-boots kind...
JOIN THE CLUB: Club’s fowl passions
Fine feathered friends: Bob French with two of his prize roosters. JOHN VAN KLAVERENThe good people from Geelong and District Poultry Club have heard...
‘Dodgy tatts’ alarm in city
JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Unqualified and unregistered backyard tattooists are “butchering people” and leaving professionals to fix the mess, Geelong tattoo artists have warned.
They believe that...
Ambo patients’ waits ‘ramped up’
JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Five per cent of ambulance patients wait more than 40 minutes for transfers to beds after arriving at Geelong Hospital, according to...
Welfare ‘feels growth pains’
JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Population growth across the region has prompted another surge in families in financial and housing crisis, according to welfare agencies.
Salvation Army family...
Bid to attract, help migrants
Welcome pack: Cr Eddie Kontelj, at rear, with migrants Robin Arthur, formerly of Singapore, Chagai Gum, Sudan, Elnee Jehn and Say Reh, both from...
Suppliers dump Easter feast
Furry friend: Volunteer Dot Cations with an inmate at Geelong Animal Welfare Society.JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
The main suppliers of a new Geelong Seafood Feast have...
Mum faces degrees of challenge on ride to Darwin
Long ride: Kelly Dixon prepares to hit the road to collect her university degrees.ERIN PEARSONBy Erin Pearson
CLIFTON Springs’ Kelly Dixon is in for the...
‘Multiple fronts’ for growth in state plan
Growth: Andrew Katos at the developers’ lunch.ERIN PEARSON
Lara, Lovely Banks and Batesford are targets for growth under the new Baillieu Government, according to South...
Our CBD ‘is A-OK’
JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Geelong’s so-called CBD crisis is perception rather than reality, according to a leading property valuation firm.
Opteon Victoria research manager Richard Jenkins said...
Standing in solidarity
Hundreds gathered together at the break of dawn on July 7 to stand with Wadawurrung Traditional Owners in collaboration with Barwon Coast for a...
