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Plan for tourists to ride buses to beach, shops Towns’ ticket to ride
Jessica BentonSpecial buses could ferry tourists to beaches and shops under a plan to break parking nightmares at Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads.
Barwon Coast...
Praise for plan to fix snarl at roundabout
Alex de VosA community association has praised authorities’ plan to fix the Bellarine Peninsula’s worst traffic snarl.
Drysdale Community Association’s Roger Lavingdale said he was...
Round two in stoush over new dam push
Geelong’s new councillor has hit back at an MP who publicly mauled him over his call in last week’s Independent for State Government to...
Round two in stoush over new dam push Katos hits back
Geelong’s new councillor has hit back at an MP who publicly mauled him over his call in last week’s Independent for State Government to...
Club’s no to eviction
Andrew MathiesonA DEFIANT Geelong Gun Club will ignore a State Government eviction notice for the end of the month.
Club president Steve Haberman said...
Call to keep tariffs as Ford posts $87m loss
Peter FaragoSTATE Government wants automotive industry tariffs maintained at 10 per cent until 2015 on the back of a massive financial loss for Ford...
Strange bedfellows in a cultural fusion at Star Search
Guest artists are planning a fusion of indigenous and western cultures at the region’s premier annual talent quest next week.
Narana Creations didgeridoo exponent Norm...
Golf course off market Links dumps bid to sell site
Andrew MathiesonA developer has taken the former Geelong Golf Club “off the market” after struggling to find a suitable buyer.
Links Living spokesperson Ron Smith...
Spending blow as games events lost
Jessica BentonGEELONG and the Bellarine Peninsula could miss out on more than a million dollars in visitor spending after Australian Masters Games organisers sent...
Showing their metal
Andrew MathiesonFOUR unassuming girls – three of them from Lara – walk up in sight of a burly bouncer without a skerrick of fear.
They...
Pot calling kettle an apparatchik
Peter FaragoMEMBER for South Barwon Michael Crutchfield’s mauling of a rookie Geelong councillor over calls for a new dam in the Otways needs to...
Surf Coast wins Masters Games
Alex de VosSurf Coast Shire has won a bid to host three Australian Masters Games events in February.
Around 500 national competitors will flock to...
Supporting Palliative Care Week
Bellarine Community Health (BCH), as part of Palliative Care Week, wanted to challenge the community to begin a conversation about death, to think about...
