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Robbie and Damien with South Gippsland Specialist School principal Heather Braden. A05_1922

THERE was a $3.6 million surprise in the recent State Budget for Leongatha’s South Gippsland Specialist School (SGSS), with principal Heather Braden delighted to hear the news.

Save Western Port Woodlands members, including Catherine Watson, Neil Rankine and Ed Thexton, were left bitterly disappointed after discovering a planning permit to expand the Grantville sand mine was approved by the Planning Minister Richard Wynne.

AFTER a hard-fought battle, Save Western Port Woodlands (SWPW) was shocked by Planning Minister Richard Wynne’s decision to approve a significant expansion of a Grantville sand mine despite more than 70 objections.

Independent candidate for Monash, Deb Leonard, has brushed off claims she might have an eligibility problem due to her father’s New Zealand heritage and was getting on with the job of getting elected at the Warragul Early Voting Centre on Monday this week, with help from local supporter Ian Urquhart.

“I’ve investigated it and according to my reading of Section 44 of the Constitution, I don’t have a problem,” said Independent Candidate for Monash Deb Leonard.

One Nation candidate for Monash, Allan Hicken, out on the hustings during a reception last week for visiting Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson.

EARLY voting, in the 2022 Federal Election started on Monday, May 9 but you’d have to ask, why are their two early voting centres in Bass Coast and none in South Gippsland?

Steam train crossing a trestle bridge near Koo Wee Rup.

ANYONE who lived in the Bass Coast area prior to December 4, 1977, or in South Gippsland prior to July 24, 1993, would have a story to tell about the trains.

Save Western Port Woodlands members, including Catherine Watson, Neil Rankine and Ed Thexton, were left bitterly disappointed after discovering a planning permit to expand the Grantville sand mine was approved by the Planning Minister Richard Wynne.

  AFTER a hard-fought battle, Save Western Port Woodlands (SWPW) was shocked by Planning Minister Richard Wynne’s decision to approve a significant expansion of a Grantville sand mine despite more than 70 objections. On November 22, 2020, the Minister called in the application to

  IN THE context of the 2022 West Gippsland football season, with the two teams sitting one-two on the senior ladder, the contest between Phillip Island and Inverloch-Kongwak at Cowes on Saturday shapes as pivotal to ultimate outcome of the year. Phillip Island coach,

Sara Hickson will be looking to produce another great performance to take out the series

VICTORIA'S best U14’s to U18’s will be heading to the Surf Coast this weekend to compete in the third and final stop of the Woolworths Victorian Junior Surfing Titles with State Champions crowned at the end of the comp. 

Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Road. Photo: Star News Group.

ROAD resurfacing works kick off this month along Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Road.

Can you name The Island Whale Festival’s Humpback Whale mascot?

AS THE weather starts to cool, it’s getting close to the most exciting time of the year – the whales are coming!

Testing staff at Bass Coast Health’s COVID testing site have done a wonderful job throughout the pandemic.

  BASS Coast Health (BCH) will close its COVID testing drive-through and Community Vaccination Clinic in response to decreasing community demand. The last day of the Community Vaccination Clinic at Wonthaggi Town Hall will be Monday, May 16. BCH personnel will finish staffing the

The annual Garbage Charge might be going down by 1.8% in Bass Coast but many of the tip charges are going up.

  DUMPING extra waste is another area of the Bass Coast Shire Council’s draft fees and charges that has raised eyebrows. And builders in particular might need to take notice with the cost of dumping construction waste set to increase from $200.90/tonne to $300/tonne.

AN OVERNIGHT sailing and Bobby Wilson and his wife Julie were fresh on dry land from Tasmania for the Gippsland Country Music Festival last month.