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News

Dive into the Island Whale Festival

CURIOUS about whales, perhaps you’re keen to learn more or get up close to the spectacular, yet mysterious whisperers of the deep. Have a flipper-slapping good time these school holidays as the Island Whale Festival returns to Phillip Island from...

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58 minutes ago

News

Why today is ‘Montevideo Maru Day’, lest we forget

By Leongatha historian, Lyn Skillern THE sinking of the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese transport ship, on this day, 83 years ago on July 1, 1942, was Australia’s worst maritime disaster, and commemorated for the first time at the Australian War...

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4 hours ago

Real Estate

Rare foreshore location with 180° water views

A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME opportunity to secure an exclusive property on The Esplanade, offering breathtaking 180-degree uninterrupted water views. While the spectacular location is undoubtedly the highlight, this exceptional home delivers far more than...

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4 hours ago

Digital Editions

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Welcome to this week’s digital edition. When clicking the link below, please allow a few moments for the page to load. To start reading, just click HERE

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4 hours ago

Football

Parrots’ apprentices impress at Sale

LEONGATHA put on 14 goals to three on either side of halftime at Sale on Saturday to set up a percentage-boosting, 81-point victory which allowed them to narrowly take over top spot on the Gippsland League ladder. They did so courtesy of a 21-point...

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5 hours ago

Sentinel-Times Comment

Leave community questions alone!

IT’S the natural instinct of government bureaucracies, including local government administrators, to try and maintain a level of secrecy and control over just about everything they do. And a source of great irritation for the powers that be at the...

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5 hours ago

Community

Wreck Creek, the forgotten piece in the Coast to Coast jigsaw

ABNORMALLY high tides and a storm surge during extreme weather conditions over the past week placed Wreck Creek on Surf Parade Inverloch at high risk of flooding. All but forgotten in the latest version (Stage 3) of the Coast to Coast Resilience...

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5 hours ago

Stop horsing around and help, they say

I READ with interest your lead story entitled - Aileen’s dilemma. Accordingly, I identified several facts: Aileen owns her own land, pays rates for it and has lived in a unit on that land, constructed in her existing shed, for over 20 years. It is...

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Suggest mediation and help, not court action

Open letter to the South Gippsland Shire Council and the community. NO DOUBT by now the council persons would be aware of Aileen’s plight in relation to her being evicted from her home in Meeniyan. Michael Giles of the Sentinel Times newspaper...

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Leave Aileen alone, focus on what’s important

I WAS disgusted to read that South Gippsland Council have issued a “Cease to Occupy” to Aileen Hughes. South Gippsland Council have taken rates from Ms Hughes for the past 30 years. Now they want to flush Aileen out of her home. How dare they...

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Pick up after your dog

TO THE couple walking their two small dogs along Ullathornes Road, Inverloch about 4pm, Saturday, July 28 – we saw go deliberately place two poo bags in a person’s garden. Just to let you know we picked up the bags and took them home to place in...

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Be careful what you sign for

CORRECTION, in last edition, June 24, Your Say, Be careful what you sign for, “The Say No group has the majority with individual schemes (e.g. The Esplanade) where majority ratepayer support of 50 per cent plus one is demonstrable” was printed...

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