Lifestyle

11 Feb 2025

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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23 Jan 2025

Community

Meeniyan moves to Marty Gras’ beat

MEENIYAN staged its glittering night of nights last Saturday night, their annual Marty Gras fundraising ball, at the iconic Meeniyan Town Hall and what a roaring success it turned out to be. Revellers hit the rainbow carpet early in the evening, in...

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27 Oct 2024

Free camping initiative threatens caravan park operators

WHILE the prospect of the Victorian Government introducing free camping at sites under its control over summer has caused concern for caravan park operators, Noel Sheard of Prom Central Caravan Park in Foster is unsure what impact the initiative...

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Sentinel-Times

10 Oct 2024

Zachary revives Wrench family bootmaking tradition

WHILE the past is celebrated at Coal Creek, a recent visit to its ‘T. Wrench Pioneer Bootmaker’ shop proved to be just as much about the future, with young Wrench descendant Zachary Wilmot an exponent of the trade. He was at the tourist park’s...

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Sentinel-Times

01 May 2024

Brian Cadd’s album launch in Cowes and Yarram

THROUGH a career spanning over six decades, Brian Cadd stands among the greats as a trailblazer in Australian music. His latest offering ‘Dream Train’, out now, is the country album he was always destined to make and represents a return to his...

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05 Apr 2024

The power of professional guidance

POSITIVELY guiding a path for positive energy within the surfing culture and the Phillip Island community is Dominique Salerno – sharing the art of yoga at the Phillip Island Boardriders Club (PIBC). As an authentic and passionate educator in the...

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Sentinel-Times

01 Feb 2024

How they’re working, talking and eating their way to good health

Leongatha Men’s Shed member David Heath lines up for a serve of the pasta bake at the shed’s September Cook and Eat Day. THERE’S work to be done, yes, but sometimes it’s just as important to sit down at a table over lunch and have a chat...

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30 Sep 2023

Paid $50,606 per acre for spectacular Cape Paterson grazing property

Fiona McMahon-Hughes: “An exciting result thanks to the quality of the offering and the scope of the Ray White marketing system.“ A 40-hectare (99 acre) grazing property, spectacularly located overlooking the ocean at Cape Paterson, but without...

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07 Sep 2023

Sport

Gotta go golfing - 10 great courses to enjoy

FROM Phillip Island Golf Club at Cowes, and Lang Lang Golf Club near Nyora in the west to the small Welshpool Golf Club and Yarram in the east; there’s a week-and-a-half of golf to be had on the courses of South Gippsland and Bass Coast. Cowes...

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29 Dec 2022

Name our new whale mascots

AS THE weather starts to cool, it’s getting close to the most exciting time of the year – the whales are coming!

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06 May 2022

A dream come true…

AN OVERNIGHT sailing and Bobby Wilson and his wife, Julie will be fresh on dry land from Tasmania ready for Saturday’s Gippsland Country Music Festival.

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21 Apr 2022

Phillip Island set to host Surfing Teams Challenge

It’s back! The surf is set for Phillip Island National Surfing Reserve’s seventh annual Surfing Teams Challenge to be held at Cape Woolamai on Saturday 2 April.

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