User Profile

13 Nov 2025

Great weather for gardens not so much visiting them!

EVERYTHING in the garden is growing so well at the moment here in South Gippsland with a kind winter, moderate spring and good recent rain. The tomato plants are coming on well and sure to have fruit by Christmas, there’s a blaze of healthy colour...

Click here

10 Nov 2025

How Cape Liptrap poachers narrowly avoided the death penalty

TYPICALLY, you’ll get a fine or a good-behaviour bond if you’re caught taking too many abalone. Occasionally, in cases of repeat or serious offending, you might get a term of imprisonment. But a family from Hoppers Crossing in Melbourne, who...

Click here

07 Nov 2025

Council

Ideas picnic for old Wonthaggi Tech site... before it’s too late!

IT’S been six years since the doors of old McBride Campus of the Wonthaggi Secondary College closed for the last time. And frankly, according to members of the Wonthaggi Old Tech Creative Hub Group (WOTCH), it’s simply taking too long for...

Click here

06 Nov 2025

Cell tower data, Facebook friends, mushroom photos prejudiced trial, says Erin

THE grounds for Erin Patterson’s appeal against her conviction have been released. They reveal wide-ranging dissatisfaction with the material admitted into evidence by trial judge Justice Christopher Beale, with how Ms Patterson was cross-examined...

Click here

05 Nov 2025

Heartwarming Wonthaggi farewell for Susan Goodwin

AS A sign of the community spirit that still burns brightly in Wonthaggi, despite its burgeoning growth over the past decade or so, 200 people turned out at a memorial service for Susan Goodwin at the Wonthaggi Golf Club on Wednesday, November 5...

Click here

05 Nov 2025

Bargain city at Inverloch farmer’s clearing sale

Brendan Fletcher picked up a stash of old tools for $15 from a clearing sale at Inverloch last Friday. COLLECTORS of old wooden tools, firewood enthusiasts, farmers, gardeners, just about anyone… If you didn’t turn out at a genuinely good...

Click here

02 Nov 2025

The original Prom Market at Foster is still the best

The Oxley family of Fish Creek, including Daisy the Dachshund, who couldn’t be left in a hot car, enjoyed the shady trees at the Foster Showgrounds during a warm start to the summer Prom Produce and Craft Market season on Sunday. oster2_4425...

Click here

02 Nov 2025

Council

Korumburra Hub: You flushed it they fixed it

SO, what’s going on at the Korumburra Community Hub. Not even two years old, writes a local Sentinel-Times’ reader, and they’ve already got major problems with the underfloor plumbing. Turns out it’s the users of the facility, and not the...

Click here

30 Oct 2025

Local connections with cricket tragedy

CRICKET connections run deep but it’s often only when tragedy strikes one of their own that cricketers find out how deep. The Leongatha and District Cricket Association played in the ‘Provincial’ division of Melbourne Country Week this year...

Click here

30 Oct 2025

Shack Bay staircase closed for works from November 5

A POPULAR spot for locals to exercise and to take a quiet dip in the ocean, Shack Bay near Inverloch will be inaccessible during much of November and December this year. Parks Victoria has advised that the Shack Bay Beach Access Staircase will be...

Click here

29 Oct 2025

Symbol of hope, support and remembrance

THE Phillip Island RSL Sub-branch is reminding everyone that their Remembrance Day service actually starts at 10.45am on Tuesday, November 11, not at 11am, so that the preliminaries can take place prior to the ‘Minute’s Silence’ promptly at...

Click here

29 Oct 2025

Free throws for Premier on surprise visit to Mirboo North

NO ONE is complaining about the unexpected visit by Premier Jacinta Allan to Mirboo North last Tuesday, October 21, or that she practiced shooting hoops with Belinda Snell, the town’s much-loved Olympic hero. Practice makes perfect, they say. And...

Click here