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Nippers celebrate season
Ocean Grove Surf Life Saving Club Nippers celebrated a successful season with their annual junior presentation day on Sunday 28 April. The Nipper awards ceremony…
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Musical bug bites
Leigh Keast gave up performing live music for six years because he wanted to play in a cricket premiership. The Ocean Grove singer and guitarist…
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Sisters doing it for others
When Mia Francis was three years old she was rushed to the Royal Children’s Hospital for emergency surgery. Fortunately Mia made a full recovery, but…
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More ‘life’ for Gerry
Wallington CFA veteran Gerry Neyenuis has added another life membership to his growing list of honours, and he admits receiving this one brought a tear…
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Connecting families
Ocean Grove Primary School teacher Andy McNeilly never dreamed that a program he started to get families together would appear in print. But two and…
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Childhood dream a reality
Not many footballers get to play for the club they have barracked for all their life, but Hannah Burchell is about to fulfil a childhood…
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Set for the big stage
A group of enthusiastic Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads students are appearing in Geelong Society of Operatic and Dramatic Arts (GSODA) production, Hercules. GSODA is…
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Scoreboard action at Heads
A Shorten Labor government would invest $95,000 to deliver a new electronic scoreboard at Harmer Reserve, home of the Barwon Heads Football Netball Club. The…
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Yellow and black attack for Hannah
Ocean Grover Hannah Burchell played one game for Geelong in the AFLW this season before being delisted. It was a bitter pill to swallow for…
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$580k for Collendina
Collendina Recreation Reserve will benefit from a $580,000 major upgrade under a re-elected Liberal government. Federal Member for Corangamite Sarah Henderson made the announcement as…
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Unpleasant smell is safe, council
A strange and unpleasant odour that has been worrying some residents in Point Lonsdale is harmless, City of Greater Geelong said. The City has investigated…
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33m tower wins green light
A controversially proposed 33-metre mobile phone tower on the Bellarine Peninsula has won approval at the state’s planning tribunal. Developers can begin constructing the Optus…