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Phillip Island SES answered 45 calls after ‘mini cyclone’

AN INTENSE storm cell, which touched down in a discrete area of Phillip Island last Sunday, February 2, shortly after 5pm, has been described as a “mini cyclone” by affected residents mostly in the Ventnor area on the east side of the island...

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05 Feb 2025

News

They’re dancing along the trail at Loch market

THE Poowong Twinkle Toes dancers are stepping out… of their comfort zone and onto the Great Southern Rail Trail this weekend. It’s happening at this Sunday’s Loch Village Summer Markets, with the support of the Strzelecki Lions. The dancers...

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04 Feb 2025

News

‘We’re standing’: Russell Broadbent rides again

“We’re standing. We will be renominating.” It was with those words on Monday morning this week, February 3, that the Federal Member for Monash Russell Broadbent announced he would be standing as an Independent at the next Federal Election...

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03 Feb 2025

Hailstones and storm warning for Bass Coast and South Gippsland

VIC Emergency has issued a Thunderstorm Warning for West and South Gippsland, including the Bass Coast Shire area with conditions likely to produce large hailstones and damaging winds. Already some storm cells have been sweeping across the area and...

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02 Feb 2025

Temperature drops 10 degrees at Rhyll

THE sea breeze is in at Rhyll on Phillip Island with the temperature dropping more than 10 degrees in an hour. From a sticky 36.3 degrees at 2.30pm Sunday it has dropped to 24.9 by 3.13pm as the wind swung from NNW and NNE at about 10km/h, gusting...

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02 Feb 2025

‘Relief and gratitude’ after The Gurdies bushfire

WHEN The Gurdies bushfire blew up into a seriously dangerous inferno at 4.55pm on Friday, December 20, local resident Mahanama Wijayasiri was safely 30 minutes away from his home, on Gurdies-St Helier Road, at Pakenham. But the dramatic escalation...

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01 Feb 2025

Community

Kinder to school transition picture perfect at Newhaven

IF THERE was any crying going on as a record 36 new preppies arrived, with a skip and a jump, for their first day of school at Newhaven Primary School last Thursday, it would only have been the parents. As far as the new kids were concerned, they...

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31 Jan 2025

Korumburra improvements continue to take shape

WORKS to replace the toilet block and shelter at the Wayside Stop in the Korumburra Railway Precinct are nearing completion. It’s all part of a busy construction in the centre of the town with footpaths and parking bays among the assets getting...

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31 Jan 2025

Community

Why teaching’s gone to the dogs at Loch primary

mgLochPS3_0525 Tradesmen were applying the finishing touches to a new welfare centre at the Loch Primary School on opening day last Wednesday. mgLochPS4_0525 There’s plenty of interest in the school yard at Loch Primary School with chooks and...

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Practised response to hazardous material alert at Phillip Island

A COMMON ingredient in the manufacture of a wide range of products, phosphoric acid is also rated as a “severe marine pollutant” that can severely affect human health through the inhalation of mist, ingestion and contact with skin and eyes...

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Jordan’s letter puts erosion facts firmly on the table

BASS MP Jordan Crugnale has gone all ‘old school’ in trying to get most of the available information out to Inverloch homeowners and residents about the town’s beach erosion crisis. Over the Australia Day long weekend, Ms Crugnale had an...

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Bass Coast takes erosion problems to Environment Minister

THE Bass Coast Shire Council sent a delegation to meet with the Victorian Minister for Environment Steve Dimopoulos, on Wednesday this week, to raise the need for an urgent response to the erosion crisis at Inverloch and Silverleaves. Attending for...

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