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The winner of last year’s Cape Aquathon, elite triathlete Monty Frankish, crossed the finish line in a record breaking time. The Cape Aquathon returns to the shores of Cape Paterson this Sunday, January 15. M690316

THE Cape Paterson Surf Lifesaving Club’s biggest fundraising event for the year, the Cape Aquathon, will see competitors hitting the sand on Sunday, January 15. The Aquathon is one of three races in the Bass Coast Summer Series, and a huge event for the

Kanowna Place is the address to live with fully serviced and extra-large lifestyle allotments.

IT IS not often that the opportunity presents where you can secure your sea change and tree change in one, let alone on a fully-serviced large lifestyle allotment backing onto beautiful creek reserve. That chance is here right now in the form of blocks

Be prepared for more lengthy delays on the South Gippsland Highway at Ruby. N010217

VICROADS contractors will be back at Ruby for the next few weeks to finish the job on the South Gippsland Highway they started last year. Work started yesterday on the project yesterday and should be completed before the end of the month according to

Wonthaggi’s Lateeha, Mylie, Connor and Zoe Rutjens enjoyed a day out at the Wonthaggi cinema on Friday. rg150217

THE Bass Coast Shire Council’s relaunch of the cinema at the Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre has proven successful so far, with the cinema quite busy during the day. Bass Coast Mayor, Cr Pamela Rothfield, said running a cinema is a whole new business

Shelby Dittrich and Emily Judd with boomerang bags at Green Heart Organics.

FOLLOWING the success of the first Bass Coast Boomerang Bags sewathon last November, another is being held, this time at the Wonthaggi Library on January 14. The local boomerang bags group has been sewing bags for about five months and has distributed bags to

The rinks were full for the three day tournament at Loch. N130217

THE Loch & District Bowling Club’s annual Men’s three day tournament was a very successful event, with teams arriving from far and wide to join in. Players came from Cardinia Waters, Toora, Mount Beauty, Kyabram, Richmond United, Korumburra, Meeniyan, and Inverloch. “This is probably

This Cape Paterson beach house is selling for just $335,000.

BE IN in for the rest of summer. This fabulous renovated family beach house is in wonderful location within minutes of Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach, rock pool and surf clubs. It has a north facing sunroom/bunkroom, spacious and bright family room, functional kitchen with

It’s a good thing that that it has been a good season in the paddock for local dairy farmers because the recovery in world prices has been faltering in recent Global Dairy Trade rounds.

AUSTRALIA’S dairy sector, which had been seeing some positive signs on world markets in recent months, following a very challenging period, witnessed a setback in the latest rounds of selling through the Global Dairy Trade. Overall, at the forward selling event on Tuesday, January

The car accident in Wonthaggi last week is not being treated as a road fatality. Police photo.

THE state’s road toll was rolled back to zero last week after it was confirmed that the woman involved in a crash at Wonthaggi at 4.30pm on Monday, January 2 died of a medical condition. A Victoria Police spokesman said the woman, aged in

Op shop volunteers in Wonthaggi are frustrated and disgusted at donation bins such as this being used for rubbish dumping. ms040217

VOLUNTEERS from local opportunity shops in Wonthaggi are pleading with the public to stop dumping rubbish in donation bins scattered across the town. Nearly every day, volunteers from op shops are forced to dive through rubbish and soiled items that have been carelessly disposed

Children and their families registered to take part in the University of Melbourne’s three year-long study into pipis on the coastline. ms030217

BENEATH the cover of darkness, scientists from the University of Melbourne snuck down to the surf beach at Venus Bay and released 2000 pipis at low tide into the night. The pipis had been gathered from the beach earlier in the day, before being

Phillip Island Boardriders Club surfer Carl Wright competed in the Australian Boardriders Battle on Saturday at Cape Woolamai, with the club finishing fourth.

TORQUAY Boardriders Club have taken top honours at the final round of the Australian Boardriders Battle on Saturday, January 7 at Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island. With perfect offshore conditions and two to three foot of swell, clubs were treated to some fantastic waves under

More than 2500 people disembarked when the Golden Princess last visited Phillip Island.

THE Rhyll Community Association and its residents are excited to hear of the imminent arrival in their beautiful fishing village of the Golden Princess Cruise Ship, the second of four cruise ship arrivals to Phillip Island for the 2016/17 season. The ship will arrive