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Inverloch diver Steve Dunn pictured with a crayfish. Mr Dunn is behind the incredible underwater videos that can be seen on the Inverloch Community Voice and Inverloch Community Circle Facebook pages.

THE Bass Coast community is discovering an amazing underwater world through the magic of social media.

Bob Dylan and his girlfriend Suze Rotolo featured on the front of the iconic ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ but is was more a case of love lost for the young Dylan.

TALK about heartache. Love found or love sought is one side of Valentine’s Day but equally, so is love lost or unfulfilled love.

Writer and historian Carolyn Landon has recorded 136 Plod essays in her 15 years in Wonthaggi, she has volunteered with president of the Wonthaggi Historical Society Fay Quilford to document important parts of the area history.

Often miners would leave instructions written in thick chalk ‘plod’ for following shifts. Since Carolyn Landon moved to the area in 2005 she has written 136 Plod essays.

Bryan Sword, second from right, was congratulated and thanked by administrators Rick Brown, left, Julie Eisenbise and Christian Zahra when Mr Sword completed his role as acting chief executive in March 2020.

THE man who led South Gippsland Shire Council as acting chief executive officer through its most turbulent period in 2019-20, Bryan Sword, has resigned.

On election night in November 2018, the new Member for Bass was all smiles, but a new challenge looms as a result of major changes to the seat’s electoral boundary.

THE State Electorate of Bass, represented by former Bass Coast Shire Council Mayor and Inverloch resident Jordan Crugnale, has grown so quickly it presently has a voter population that is 40.97 per cent above the average.

Maria, Warren and Tiki Reed are in the middle of building their artistic hub, Bear Street Inverloch.

BEAR Street in Inverloch will soon be host to a brand-new artistic mecca, brought to fruition by an enterprising family from Kilcunda.

Extensive testing in metro south east A Hotel Quarantine worker at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, formerly hosting overseas tennis players and their entourage, has tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19), likely to be the UK strain. The individual last worked at the Grand Hyatt on

PROM Coast Martial Arts Club (PCMAC) has now resumed training for 2021 after a COVID-enforced hiatus for most of 2020.

The foreshore carpark at San Remo was packed on Wednesday with school groups from Melbourne's south eastern suburbs as the Island and surrounds heads into its next visitor phase after a busy summer.

WE DON’T appreciate it like we should, because we live here, but Phillip Island really is fantastic.

Once a teacher, always a part of the community, retired teachers held their annual catch-up lunch at Par 3 Gold Café on January 28.

ON the first day of school, these retired Wonthaggi Secondary College teachers enjoy catching up, free of the school year ahead.

Cowes Primary School crossing supervisor Carmel Waldron ran a tight ship, with a smile for returning students and family members, at her crossing outside the school on back-to-school day last Thursday.

BASS Coast Mayor, Cr Brett Tessari, asked the community to be careful on the roads around the school zones last week, mindful that many would take the opportunity of the warmer weather to walk rather than drive.

Year 12 students have hit the ground running, taking time on their first day to study in the school library.

KORUMBURRA Secondary College hosted mentoring meetings for all students last week before welcoming them back to classrooms on Monday, February 1.

It was back to school this week for these St Laurence’s primary school kids and seeing them safely across the Brumley Street crossing was School Crossing Supervisor Liz Smith who knows many of her regulars by name.

ST LAURENCE O’Toole Primary School in Leongatha was established in 1913 by the Sisters of St Joseph, but how long after that the original school was built is anyone’s guess.