Letters to the Editor

Pick up after your dog

Jul 01 2025 Updated 21 hours ago

Sentinel-Times

1 min read

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 our rubbish bin.

People like you give dog owners a very bad name.

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It’s not a house, it’s a home, says Aileen Hughes

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Michael Giles

24 Jun 2025

News

Hold the line, no retreat

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Sentinel-Times

29 Jun 2025

News

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Michael Giles

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Council

Loss of vegetation no barrier to multi-storey unit development on Phillip Island

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Bruce Wardley

24 Jun 2025

Torrential rain as firefighters battle suspicious fire in Dalyston

BASS Coast Crime Investigation Unit are investigating a suspicious house fire this morning in Dalyston during a period of torrential rain. Authorities were alerted to the blaze at 6.45am on June 17 with a number of local fire brigades attending...

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Sentinel-Times

17 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Vehicle collides with bookshop in Murray Street

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Sentinel-Times

05 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Bass Highway closed after vehicle flips

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Sentinel-Times

01 Jun 2025

Emergency Services

Search continues for male swept off rocks at Punch Bowl

POLICE and emergency services are continue to search for a male who was swept off the rocks with two others at a beach off Punch Bowl Road on Good Friday, April 18 around 8.30am. The search for the male has been ongoing since Friday with emergency...

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Sentinel-Times

21 Apr 2025