Tag: News
SPORT: Cats’ two-day challenge begins
LAST weekend’s inclement weather cost Geelong Cricket Club the opportunity to come out on the positive side of the ledger from the five one-dayers...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Hopping back on stage
By NOEL MURPHY
A GENERATION of rock fans grew up to the strains of Grasshopper belting out '60s and '70s hits on the Geelong pub...
Growing threat raising fire risk
By NOEL MURPHY
STRONG fuel growth and difficulties with controlled burns are increasing the region’s summer fire risk, authorities have warned.
CFA’s Ian Beswicke said recent...
Splashin’s on the field for Geelong Cup fashionistas
By KATE VALLENCE
ANYONE would have been forgiven for wanting to swap a fascinator for a poncho during Fashions on the Field at Wednesday’s Geelong...
JOIN THE CLUB: The art of Port
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
EVERYONE has an artist inside - and Portarlington’s art group considers itself as proof of the old adage.
The group of men...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Jirrahlinga off to races
By MICHELLE HERBISON
BARWON Heads’ Jirrahlinga Koala and Wildlife Sanctuary will celebrate Melbourne Cup eve with a fun-filled evening of racing events to raise funds...
‘Loophole’ allows Cotton On to sack injured worker
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A FORMER warehouse employee of Geelong’s Cotton On claims she was terminated after suffering a hernia from unsafe work practices.
Brooke Wagstaff,...
Mayoral ‘dummies’ suspected
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A PLUS-sized Geelong Cup field has assembled to contest the position of the city’s mayor at next month’s by-election.
Old and new...
National top 10 for Barwon’s land cost
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE Barwon region is the seventh most expensive nationally for median land prices, according to new figures.
HIA-RP Data’s latest Residential Land...
Couple’s sighting claim has tiger by the tale
By NOEL MURPHY
IS THE Tasmanian tiger extinct or living in the Otways?
That’s the question after a new round of purported sightings of the illustrious...
Acting mayor’s bio trip to USA
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG has been invited to become sister city of Athens Clarke County in the USA.
The Georgia city-county invitation comes as acting mayor...
Open land, says panel
By NOEL MURPHY
TORQUAY’S red shirt brigade is rallying the troops for a new fight against opening Spring Creek for housing.
Protesters took to social media...
Councillor Crockett sworn in
Phoebe Crockett is officially the new Torquay Ward councillor for the Surf Coast Shire after she was sworn into the role this week. ...
