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How they’re walking away from their Prom responsibilities

THE popular Tidal River Footbridge, connecting visitors to the iconic Squeaky Beach Walk, is closed. It was closed sometime prior to the Melbourne Cup Weekend last year, but first highlighted in a post on the not-for-profit Victoria Walks’...

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22 hours ago

Here’s how Ted Grambeau pictured his life

HE’S simply the best surfing photographer in the world and last Tuesday Ted Grambeau was back where it all began, where he snapped some of his first published works, at Phillip Island. Pictures of local legends, back in the day, including Neil...

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15 Jan 2025

The mysteries that surround these magnificent creatures

IT’S a strange thing to say, but even top ornithologists know just about nothing about one of the most common waterbirds in Australia – the majestic Australian Pelican or Pelecanus Conspicillatus. Members of the Westernport Pelican Study Group...

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14 Jan 2025

Let The Gurdies regeneration begin!

- But lessons to be learned MEMBERS of The Gurdies community, including residents, firefighters and members of the Western Port Woodlands group got together with Bass Coast Shire Councillors, Parks Victoria representatives and others at the The...

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14 Jan 2025

Golf

Wonthaggi golf marathon all for a good cause - donate here!

mgGOLFmarathon_0225 golfmarathon1_0225 Wonthaggi Golf Club member Layla Robinson (left) is joined by Wendy Cross, Yvonne Everett and Steve Tyrell as she starts her golfing marathon for the Cancer Council last Sunday. golfmarathon2_0225...

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14 Jan 2025

Camping fail …but we told you so!

THE State Government’s “$9 million investment” in a first summer of “free camping”, announced last October for all of its 131 Parks Victoria campgrounds, has been a notable failure. However, some say the policy might still be salvageable...

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12 Jan 2025

Police

OFFICIAL: Police seek help after Wonthaggi shooting

OFFICIAL POLICE STATEMENT Armed Crime Squad detectives are investigating a firearms incident in Wonthaggi on Sunday, 12 January. Emergency services were called to reports a man was shot following an altercation on Fahey Street about 2am. The man was...

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Police on the scene of Wonthaggi shooting

POLICE are on the scene of an alleged shooting in Wonthaggi this morning. The incident happened overnight on Saturday/Sunday with the result that a man was airlifted to Melbourne. More details soon

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12 Jan 2025

Emergency Services

Wonthaggi bushfire linked to Inverloch pathway works

A FIRE which broke out in bushland on the outskirts of Wonthaggi last Wednesday, January 8, has been linked to construction work on the Bass Coast Shire Council’s $7.7million Inverloch to Wonthaggi pathway. According to a spokesman for the CF...

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10 Jan 2025

West Gippsland hospital patients told where to go

THE Member for Narracan, Wayne Farnham MP, likely to be a Minister in any new Battin Coalition Government, has cried foul over the decision to put the West Gippsland hospital into the new Gippsland Local Health Service Network where Latrobe Regional...

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10 Jan 2025

300 voices call for ‘urgent’ Silverleaves’ funding

UNLESS the State Government acts now to fund a plan, already prepared by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA), for temporary geotextile bag walls to be erected on the foreshore at Silverleaves, homes along Woodland Avenue...

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06 Jan 2025

50 artists on display at Berninneit gallery in Cowes

An example of some of the art works on display and for sale at the Berninneit Gallery in Cowes until January 1, 2025. TAKE the opportunity of some down time in Cowes over the next few days to visit the gallery in the Berninneit cultural centre in...

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