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Mar 20 2025 Updated March 20, 2025

Sentinel-Times

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SENTINEL Times March 4 story, “Eviction from Tarwin Fuel Supplies…” and the new business owners dispute with the property owner over water inside one of the tanks, then the March 12 Letter to Your Paper, with back up of problem from Dean of Venus Bay that he states goes back at least five years.

I sure hope your paper, my local newspaper, keeps us informed of the outcome, please?

Michael Quinn, San Remo

Evil in our midst: Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty

LEONGATHA mother of two, Erin Patterson, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after a marathon trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell. The jury returned its verdict on day six of its deliberations, on Monday...

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Michael Giles

07 Jul 2025

News

Still, we wait… but here’s what happens when the verdict comes

IT’S day three of the jury’s deliberations in the Erin Patterson murder trial at Morwell. But by lunchtime on Wednesday, July 2, there’s still no verdict and no questions either from a jury that has spent two nights sequestered in a Latrobe...

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Michael Giles

02 Jul 2025

Police

Two Bass Coast teenagers arrested after stabbing in Wantirna South

DETECTIVES charged three teenagers after a stabbing and affray in Wantirna South on Monday, July 7. It is alleged that an altercation took place between a group of teenaged boys at a shopping centre on Burwood Highway in Wantirna South about 5.30pm...

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Sentinel-Times

10 Jul 2025

News

Hold the line, no retreat

NO SURF lifesaving club, no road and dozens of homes lost, that’s the dire assessment given by Inverloch Foreshore Action Group (IFAG) if the state government sticks to its proposed ‘planned retreat’ solution. In response to the Department of...

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Sentinel-Times

29 Jun 2025

San Remo SES says ‘thank you’ to all its supporters

YOU hear the saying ‘it’s a thankless job’ from people who work hard and receive very few rewards in return. SES San Remo unit controller Mandy Chancellor said a volunteer can sometimes feel this way; their work may go unnoticed by the...

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Sentinel-Times

11 Jul 2025

Emergency Services

Torrential rain as firefighters battle suspicious fire in Dalyston

BASS Coast Crime Investigation Unit are investigating a suspicious house fire this morning in Dalyston during a period of torrential rain. Authorities were alerted to the blaze at 6.45am on June 17 with a number of local fire brigades attending...

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Sentinel-Times

17 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Vehicle collides with bookshop in Murray Street

POLICE are investigating after a vehicle collided with Ramalama Book Exchange on Murray Street this evening around 4.15pm. It’s unknown what caused the accident at this stage, but it’s not believed to be related to drugs or alcohol. According to...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Bass Highway closed after vehicle flips

A WOMAN in her 30s has been taken to hospital after her car flipped on the Bass Highway this afternoon between Wonthaggi and Inverloch. It’s understood a car slowed to turn into a property along the highway with the two vehicles behind subsequently...

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Sentinel-Times

01 Jun 2025