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Two new dog parks highlight of shire’s draft domestic animal plan

THE keenly awaited review of the Bass Coast Shire Council’s Domestic Animal Management Plan (DAMP) has just dropped on the shire’s website (see link below). And at first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything controversial. There is...

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15 Aug 2025

Council

Green light for RACV expansion

IT’S basically the reannouncement of a reannouncement. But it’s still major news for Inverloch and the tourist economy in Gippsland and Bass Coast this week, that a long-awaited, $15 million-$20 million expansion of the RACV Inverloch Resort...

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15 Aug 2025

Community

What it took to get a Woolamai farmer a drought-relief cheque

Woolamai grazing country should look like this but dramatically less rainfall this year have left pastures distressed, water storages low, and primary producers with big feed bills. IT TAKES a lot to prise money out of the State Government, it...

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15 Aug 2025

Police

Fearful Cowes incident highlights lack of police, says victim

A 68-year-old Cowes woman was awoken at 1.30am on Tuesday morning this week by the sound of a car door banging repeatedly. Living close to the town’s main street, noises are a regular occurrence, but this was different. “I wasn’t going to get...

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13 Aug 2025

Inverloch ‘Cape to Cape’ report savaged in parliamentary inquiry

THE State Government’s Climate Resilience Inquiry report is out, and Inverloch’s erosion crisis is in it, front and centre. Finding 3 of the Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee’s report admits we’ve got problems, serious...

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12 Aug 2025

Why Simon’s alleged poisoning charges were dropped

ON MONDAY, July 7, 2025, Leongatha mother of two, Erin Patterson, was found guilty on four charges, three counts of murder against her in-laws Gail and Don Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, and one of attempted murder against Ian...

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11 Aug 2025

Powerful memories, steadfast friends… and some missing silverware!

YOU could buy a ‘spacious 4-bedroom brick veneer home’ in Wonthaggi for $259,000, the Wonthaggi windfarm was under construction and Gippsland Power, featuring the likes of Daisy Thomas, Scott Pendlebury and a young Beau Vernon, won the TAC Cup...

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10 Aug 2025

Finals hopes dashed for error-riddled Wonthaggi Power

THE crucial game between Traralgon and Wonthaggi started just as the home side would have wanted it to. The contest was fierce at the first ball up with Jye Gilmour, Ollie Dawson and Jai Williams coming in quickly to help their onballers; Jasper...

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10 Aug 2025

Community

In life and in death Noelene Lyons served us well

THE late Noelene Lyons of Wonthaggi maintained that you could judge the strength of a community by the way it looked after those who had gone before. Which is why she had a lifelong passion for and interest in local cemeteries, especially the...

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Football

200 up for Leongatha Parrots spiritual leader

THE story goes that when big Benny Willis arrived at training in Leongatha at the start of the 2014 season from Thorpdale, he was supposed to be going to Inverloch. But 199 senior games and four premierships later, as well as a ‘minor...

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What ‘helpful’ Erin said in her police interview

AT THE urging of the media, without objection from the Patterson and Wilkinson families but against the wishes of convicted triple murderer, Erin Patterson, the full video recording of the police record of interview with Ms Patterson has now been...

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‘A lot of victim statements’ in mushroom murder case

JUSTICE Beale has set aside a whole day of a two-day plea hearing later this month just to hear “a lot” of witness impact statements arising out of the murders of three Korumburra family members, and the attempted murder of a fourth. On Friday...

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