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Michael
Giles

Countdown to Christmas at San Remo’s carols by the bridge

A BIG crowd turned out for one of the last carols nights of the year, on the San Remo foreshore last Friday night. And with a varied line up of talent on stage, the weather playing its part, and the backdrop of the Phillip Island Bridge and Western...

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Michael Giles

1 hour ago

Emergency Services

Bass Highway reopens to traffic after fire downgrade

THE Bass Highway has reopened to traffic both ways past The Gurdies after a bushfire escaped from The Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve (NCR) on Friday afternoon, December 20 and reached tress, bush and grass by the side of the road. But prepare...

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Michael Giles

15 hours ago

Emergency Services

UPDATE 8.45pm: The Gurdies fire downgraded to ‘watch and act’

AT 8.48pm on Friday night, Emergency Vic announced that The Gurdies bushfire has been downgraded back to a ‘Watch and Act’ for St Helier, The Gurdiesand Woodleigh. But not before the fire threatened houses in the Woodland Close area and farming...

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Michael Giles

18 hours ago

News

A proud and grateful Leongatha community farewells its favourite son

FACT is more incredible than fiction they say, and such was the life and times of Leongatha’s favourite son, Robert Anthony Fennell, 79, who was farewelled by a proud and grateful community at the Leongatha Recreation Reserve on Thursday, December...

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Michael Giles

19 Dec 2024

News

VicGrid acknowledges ‘limited locations for wind farms’ in South Gippsland

Transmission plan final engagement report is out VICGRID, the authority charged with preparing the Victoria for the roll out of renewable energy facilities, including wind and solar farms, as well as the transmission lines to connect the new network...

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Cape Paterson cut down to size

Consultation opens Wednesday to confirm Cape Paterson town boundary THE people of Cape Paterson, led by the Cape Paterson Ratepayers and Residents Association celebrated Christmas early this week with the announcement that their town would not be...

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Michael Giles

17 Dec 2024

News

Coroner’s message is clear: Beware of our hazardous beaches

THE drowning deaths of three people at Forrest Caves on Phillip Island on Wednesday, January 24 this year and the subsequent death of another member of their family group the following day, has been investigated by the Coroner Sarah Gebert. In...

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Michael Giles

15 Dec 2024

Community

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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Michael Giles

13 Dec 2024

News

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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Michael Giles

13 Dec 2024

Community

‘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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Michael Giles

12 Dec 2024

News

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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Michael Giles

11 Dec 2024

Community

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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Michael Giles

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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Michael Giles

06 Dec 2024