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15 Dec 2024

Foster hospital commits to joining Gippsland health network

ANNOUNCEMENTS in recent weeks by neighbouring health services, Bass Coast Health (BCH) and Gippsland Southern Health Service (GSHS), that they want to join the Bayside Local Health Network and not a Gippsland group of hospitals has not altered the...

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13 Dec 2024

No underground transmission in Gippsland, too expensive, they say

THE transmission lines, running from Gippsland’s proposed offshore wind energy facilities, will not go underground from Giffard, near Yarram, to the Latrobe Valley. VicGrid chief executive Alistair Parker has ruled that out as simply too expensive...

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13 Dec 2024

‘Best ever’ Cowes Carols by the Bay, they say

THE Island Voice’s Carols By The Bay event at Cowes last Tuesday December 10 was “the best ever”, they said. No argument there! The weather was superb, the musical entertainment varied, highlighted by the Cowes Primary School Choir, plenty of...

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12 Dec 2024

QUBE withdraws Barry Beach redevelopment project

QUBE Energy Pty Ltd has officially withdrawn its ‘Gippsland Regional Port Project’ for major redevelopment works at its Barry Beach Marine Terminal, 550 Barry Road, Agnes. The Department of Climate Change Energy, the Environment and Water...

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11 Dec 2024

Me too! Leongatha Korumburra hospitals go ‘Bayside’

GIPPSLAND Southern Health Service (GSHS) also wants to join an expanded Bayside Local Health Area Network as part of Victoria’s Health Services Plan. The health service, which operates hospitals at Leongatha and Korumburra, told its annual general...

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06 Dec 2024

People and Lifestyle

‘Swimming Not Advised’ at our dangerous beaches

WHETHER it’s at Kilcunda on the mainland or Forrest Caves on Phillip Island, the scenes of several tragic drownings last summer, visitors will be greeted with new warning signs this holiday season. In the past week, the entrances to beaches at...

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06 Dec 2024

Tis the season for Christmas carols

WHICH one is your favourite? Is it one of the traditional carols like Silent Night, O Holy Night, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing or Joy to the World? Maybe Away in a Manger, The First Noel, Deck the Halls, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or We Wish You...

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05 Dec 2024

UPDATED: Bass Coast Health nails its colours to the ‘Bayside’ mast

BASS Coast Health has followed the lead of 80 per cent of its local inpatients, who have already opted to get their high-level care from major metro hospitals including Peninsula Health, Alfred Health and Monash Health and have made a strong case...

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05 Dec 2024

Emergency Services

Serious crash in Wonthaggi on Wednesday night

POLICE and emergency services are at the scene of a terrible crash in Wonthaggi, at the corner of Billson Street and Hagelthorn Street. It has been reported that a car has failed to negotiate the corner and crashed through the open drain in Billson...

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04 Dec 2024

Holiday home nightmare just in time for Christmas

New short-stay tax set to kill the market, they say “DEAR Customer, you must notify us by 15 January 2025 if you own a home that has been unoccupied for more than 6 months.” This was the opening paragraph of a communique to holiday homeowners...

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04 Dec 2024

Council

South Gippsland CEO Kerryn Ellis resigns

THIS morning, South Gippsland Shire Council CEO Kerryn Ellis, tendered her resignation which has been accepted with regret. The announcement was made by Mayor Cr John Schelling shortly after 1pm on Wednesday, December 4. The news of Ms Ellis’...

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04 Dec 2024

Wow Woolies! $50 million is a lot of Twisties

SHOCK, horror! Customers at the Woolworths supermarket in Cowes on Phillip Island were confronted with empty shelves on Tuesday night this week where the popular Smiths Snack Food Twisties used to sit. You could still get the party pack (270g) of...

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