Local Business and Tourism

Helping Victorian businesses grow with grants of up to $500,000

VICTORIAN farmers and food and drink producers seeking financial support can now apply for grants of up to $500,000 to help them transform their business, deliver market-leading products and drive sustainable operations. The Coles Nurture Fund has...

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Sentinel-Times

30 Jan 2025

Local Business and Tourism

Tourist numbers surge across South Gippsland

A SURGE in tourism across South Gippsland and the Bass Coast has resulted in the highest visitor numbers to the region since COVID. Visitor numbers have well exceeded seven hundred over summer for the Foster Visitors Information Centre and the Big4...

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Sentinel-Times

29 Jan 2025

Local Business and Tourism

Kilcunda Lobster Festival returns for their 39th year

THE community is invited to join the Kilcunda community association for their annual Kilcunda Lobster Festival on the town foreshore on Sunday, January 26 with market stalls, live music, and amusement rides to entertain the entire family. The first...

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Sentinel-Times

14 Jan 2025

Local Business and Tourism

Swag of honours for Leongatha Lyric Theatre

LEONGATHA Lyric Theatre not only hosted the recent Gippsland Associated Theatre Awards but collected a swag of honours for its popular production of Into the Woods, Colin Mitchell OAM’s final show as director. Into the Woods won Most Outstanding...

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Sentinel-Times

19 Dec 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Rising and experienced musical theatre talent recognised

LEONGATHA Lyric Theatre performed at the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria’s ‘Bruce Awards’ on Saturday and collected some of the evening’s honours for this year’s production of Into the Woods, those awards going to a vastly experienced...

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Sentinel-Times

19 Dec 2024

News

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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Michael Giles

04 Dec 2024

Local Business and Tourism

And they’re off… at the Woolamai Racecourse this Saturday

MELBOURNE’S outer eastern suburbs are creeping ever closer to Bass Coast and South Gippsland, and the residents there have discovered our best attractions in their droves. Which is why the hospitality marquees, umbrellas, tables ands pavilions at...

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Michael Giles

28 Nov 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Coast agencies combine for beach safety campaign

LAST summer was one of the most disastrous on record for beach drownings in Bass Coast but the responsible local agencies, Phillip Island Nature Parks and Bass Coast Shire Council are already out on the front foot this season promoting beach safety...

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Michael Giles

27 Nov 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Bass Coast a leader at Victorian Tourism Awards

BASS Coast Shire Council won Bronze at the 2024 Victorian Tourism Awards recently in the ‘Visitor Information Services Award’ category and celebrated Lucy Dewhurst as the recipient of the ‘Young Achiever Award’. Organised by the Victorian...

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Sentinel-Times

27 Nov 2024

Local Business and Tourism

New veterinary clinic set to open in Grantville

GIPPSLAND Veterinary Group are set to open the doors to their new Grantville clinic on Wednesday, November 20, extending their care for companion animals in the region, addressing the growing need for accessible veterinary services. The clinic will...

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Sentinel-Times

22 Nov 2024

Local Business and Tourism

It’s a boy! New koala joey receives first health check

THE newest addition to the Phillip Island Nature Parks family – a baby koala – has been given a clean bill of health in the annual medical checks at the Koala Conservation Reserve. The eight-month-old male joey, which his yet to be officially...

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Sentinel-Times

22 Nov 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Jetty stoush escalates over ‘callous’ remarks

THE Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath and the Member for Bass Jordan Crugnale are at loggerheads over the future of the Newhaven Jetty and some allegedly “callous” remarks directed at the owner of jetty restaurant Saltwater, Ben...

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Sentinel-Times

20 Nov 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Twist in the tale of Fishy’s stories festival

BY 11am last Sunday, the fifth annual Fishy Stories Festival at Fish Creek had already worked up a head of steam and the town was alive with colour, movement and music. An army of kids were seen dashing around the barbecue rotunda in cardboard...

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Sentinel-Times

20 Nov 2024