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Wallington PS to get funding
Wallington Primary School will receive a $2.1 million in upgrades if Labor wins the state election. Premier Daniel Andrews and Labor candidate for Bellarine Alison…
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Free rego for tradies
Eligible apprentice tradies will receive free car registration if Labor is re-elected later this month. Premier Daniel Andrews announced the $9.7 million package at the…
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Sullivan new mayor
Trent Sullivan is Geelong’s new mayor. Councillor Sullivan was elected unopposed on Tuesday night and becomes the 15th mayor since the amalgamated City of Greater…
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Lights set to dazzle
Organisers of Adventure Park Geelong’s Christmas Festival of Lights are hoping to eclipse last year’s crowd of 85,000. The annual Christmas lights show will use…
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City Hall to light up
Experienced multimedia artist Georgie Pinn is behind this year’s City of Greater Geelong Christmas projections. City Hall will be illuminated for the Christmas in Geelong…
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For the love of bonsai
Shelley Egberts fondly remembers Saturdays being spent as a young child with her father exploring the art of bonsai. They would explore nurseries to buy…
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Road repair backlog
The City of Greater Geelong has estimated that up to one-third of the region’s unsealed roads were washed away in the recent floods. The roads…
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Diabetes support event comes to Geelong
Diabetes Victoria will hold its first in-person event in Geelong since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when it hosts the ‘Living Well with Diabetes’…
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10-year plan for significant area
It may be a relatively narrow stretch of land, about 5km long and 200 metres wide, but the Southeast Bellarine Coast foreshore reserve, managed by…
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Community calendar
Carpet bowls Leopold Hall 805-809 Bellarine Highway, Leopold on Wednesday and Friday from 1pm to 3.15pm. Admission $4 includes afternoon tea. ■ 0400-500 402 Book…
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Out & about
Members from four local PROBUS clubs gathered at Ocean grove Surf Life Saving Club on Tuesday. Around 120 prople from Ocean Grove on the Barwon,…
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Waterways get good drenching
The spring rains have continued to relentlessly fall, and the great thing about this is that the waterways will most likely not dry out over…