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Operation Safeguard runs from mid-November 2020 until March 2021.

By Shelby Brooks POLICE across the state are cracking down on reckless behaviour this bushfire season, with serious penalties for anyone caught doing the wrong thing. The statewide operation ‘Safeguard’ launched last week, focusing on both deliberate and careless behaviours that increase the risk

54-61 Forrest Avenue, Newhaven, which was once the St Paul's Training School for Boys, has been sold to a local company who plan to renovate it into a hotel. Photo: Realestate.com

THE old Newhaven Boys Home has been sold to a local company after just two weeks on the market.

Last week's police briefs from across South Gippsland and Bass Coast including Nyora farm machinery theft, cash found in Cowes, Cannabis warning issued in Leongatha and illegal fishing in Port Welshpool.

WHAT does Gippsland have that the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Great Barrier Reef and even Uluru don’t have? The answer is a prized spot on the customised Australian Community Relief Edition of Monopoly launched today. And Gippsland has the most highly-prized spot of all –

Let’s go to Phillip Island! All roads and websites lead to Phillip Island this week for Schoolies Week.

DESTINATIONS along the Bass Coast, but specifically Phillip Island, have been given a huge boost ahead of the mass exodus of Schoolies revellers with a prominent promotion on the go-to website Schoolies.com. “Choose coastal bliss to celebrate your Schoolies with a trip to the

School captains Ellie Stewart, Jade Butler, Patrick Boys and Alex Blackmore with vice principal John Wilson and principal Vaya Dauphin celebrate the news this afternoon, Tuesday, November 24.

AFTER years of campaigning, the goods new from Spring Street has finally arrived with $12.8m to complete the rebuild of Korumburra Secondary College.

Emergency services were called to a single-vehicle crash on Settlement Road in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A DRIVER fled the scene of a single vehicle car crash in the early hours of Sunday morning after they smashed into the side of a building at the Phillip Island Golf Course.

Max Duff of Paul the Pieman, Gary Tayler from the Inverloch Tourism Association and Nicole Griffiths of Mookah celebrate the news that an outdoor dining plan will be implemented in Inverloch over summer in A’Beckett Street. sb094720

INVERLOCH’S A’Beckett Street will be transformed into a hub of entertainment when the south side of the road is blocked to traffic to allow for outdoor dining ‘parklets’ in December.

Seals are easily sampled by researchers because they come ashore in high numbers.

PHILLIP Island Nature Parks are proud to have been named the winners of the Distinction in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation category in the Victorian Marine and Coastal Awards in an online ceremony held on Friday, November 20. The application for the professional agencies, large

MASKS come off outdoors from tonight Sunday, 22 November 2020 at 11.59pm Masks stay on indoors. And a family Christmas is back on the agenda with 30 people allowed in the home from December 13. Here is the announcement: STATEMENT FROM THE PREMIER Three

Local MP Melina Bath said the Nationals do not want any protections built into any new legislation that would provide motivation for animal activists to illegally invade farms.

THE Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath is encouraging Gippslanders to provide feedback on the state government’s proposed changes to the Animal Welfare Act. The proposed changes would impact livestock farming, hunting, fishing and ownership of domestic animals, Ms Bath said. Submissions

A 10km fence (yellow line) will be built at Wilsons Prom to create a 50,000-hectare sanctuary.

A 50,000-HECTARE biodiversity sanctuary will be created at Wilsons Promontory by the erection of a 10km predator-proof fence from coast to coast.

Sue is caring for a new baby koala she has called Bright, whose mother was killed in Leongatha. Bright will be with Sue for up to eight months as she grows big enough to care for herself. Sue feeds it with a bottle.

By Jo Wainer SUE Moore, wildlife carer and shelter at Tarwin Lower, and Mick Moore, CFA captain, had a week off! Ten days’ camping, with nothing to care for, no koalas or echidnas or wombats or birds to feed, just themselves, the first holiday