News Archive

Shani Blyth from Phillip Island Nature Parks looking after one of the Little Penguins.

PHILLIP Island Nature Parks and Melbourne Zoo’s Marine Response Unit have responded to reports of Little Penguins washing up on Phillip Island and Victorian beaches after the weekend’s severe weather conditions.

Works by Foster artists Janie Frith, together with Lynne Muir and Anne-Maree Gentile, was featured in the Meeniyan Art Gallery over Easter and until April 26. This large oil painting of Darby River called ‘Meandering’ is one of her recent pieces.

THERE’S a lot about the regular rainfall, the green rolling hills and the coastal vistas, especially at the Prom, that remind Foster artist Janie Frith of her native New Zealand.

The first community and stakeholder consultative committee meeting for the Delburn Wind Farm was held last month.

VICTORIAN Planning Minister Richard Wynne has called in all four planning permit applications related to the proposed Delburn Wind Farm.

A SMALL but powerful group of about 20 people marched in Inverloch on Saturday in support of stopping black deaths in custody.

By Tracey Matthies THE Korumburra community turned out in force on Monday night and was rewarded with a glimmer of hope in its fight to save the town’s last physical bank branch. It was standing room only as more than 200 people filled the

  SUCH has been the backlash to the announcement that the last remaining bank branch is to close in Korumburra on Friday, May 14, 2021 that organisers have decided to switch a public meeting tonight to a larger venue. President of the Korumburra Business

Korumburra is growing not shrinking, so why close the only bank branch left? It's likely to be a question posed by many at the public meeting on Monday, April 12.

  THERE’S been a heated backlash to the announcement by Bendigo Bank that they intend closing the last remaining bank branch in Korumburra on Friday, May 14, 2021. Social media went into overdrive with negative sentiment as soon as the news got out last

GLENN Dawson is striving to protect the natural environment.

Ardent Cats’ fan Richard Schmeiszl, with former Geelong captain Cameron Ling last year.

RICHARD Schmeiszl has been described as a colourful character who was larger than life.

THere's been yet another incident for emergency services on the Island today (Friday) after a very busy week.

POLICE and emergency services are at the scene of an accident on Settlement Road, Cowes (10am Friday, April 9), near the Phillip Island Fire Station, where there has been a two-vehicle collision.

An entrant in the photo section, David Hubble admires the winner at the annual Bass Coast Artists Society art show, Bob Tyler for ‘Misty Morning’. m351421

IT’S quite incredible to think that the society was putting on its 53rd annual art show at the Wonthaggi Goods Shed over the Easter weekend, according to Bass Coast Artists Society secretary Wendy Saffin.

John Collins, a trade beef buyer for Gathercole’s, managed to fill his order for cattle at the VLE Leongatha Saleyards last Wednesday but conceded it’s not getting any easier.

  AS PRICES for prime beef, and other lesser lines of cattle, edged higher at the Koonwarra saleyards last Wednesday, April 7, veteran trade buyer John Collins had a sobering prediction for supermarket freezer browsers. If you think prices are high now, wait until

By Michael Giles THE business community of Korumburra has been left reeling today after the news from Bendigo Bank that they will be closing the last remaining bank branch in the town on Friday, May 14, 2021. It follows the Commonwealth Bank closing its