People and Lifestyle

Potential risk to Corner Inlet prompts call for Environmental Effects Statement

CONCERNS have been raised over Esso Australia’s plans to use Barry Beach Marine Terminal (BBMT) to break down decommissioned Bass Strait platforms. A community group and Birdlife Australia, which describes itself as being at the forefront of bird...

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Sentinel-Times

04 Jun 2025

People and Lifestyle

Labor gives up the ghost: Disastrous free camping program ends

THE State Government has ditched its disastrous free camping in national parks initiative after the program backfired. The program was spruiked as a way to ease cost-of-living pressures, but the brutal reality was the complete opposite. The poorly...

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Sentinel-Times

30 May 2025

People and Lifestyle

53% rate hike for ESVF strikes at the heart of our farming community

BASS Coast Council has been put on notice that collections for the Emergency Services Volunteer Fund (ESVF) will push up rates by $5.52 million or 53 per cent across the shire. The state-imposed levy will be passed on to Bass Coast homeowners...

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Sentinel-Times

28 May 2025

People and Lifestyle

Justice of the Peace milestone celebration

THE Document Signing Station run at the Wonthaggi Police Station by the local JPS from across Bass Coast and South Gippsland is celebrating another wonderful milestone with one of the dedicated Justice of the Peace notching up more than 500 shifts...

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Sentinel-Times

25 May 2025

People and Lifestyle

Support for teen first responders at health sessions

OVER a 25-year career, Gippsland Southern Health Service (GSHS) nurse Shareen Bickerton has seen way too many examples of young people getting sick or injured. Now as part of GSHS’s community engagement program, she’s trying to help the next...

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Sentinel-Times

16 May 2025

People and Lifestyle

Council shuts down cattery and kennels to the dismay of clients

ANITA Benn has owned and run the Leongatha Cattery and Kennels for the last six years and last week, to the dismay of her loyal and regular clients, the Council shut it down. Two years ago, Anita had applied for the appropriate permits through...

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Sentinel-Times

13 May 2025

People and Lifestyle

Mosaic birthday magic inspired by Mary Grace

IT WAS a special occasion at Fish Creek Memorial Hall on Tuesday, a large number of people celebrating the 99th birthday of popular and creative local Mary Grace Whyte and the unveiling of stunning mosaic works she created with her daughter Isabel...

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Sentinel-Times

01 Apr 2025

People and Lifestyle

Country Cousins with Christine Webb

FOR OVER 15 years Christine Webb has been gathering stories from people who grew up on the land locally, during the time before technology took over the world. Having grown up on a farm in Korumburra herself, Christine initially trained to be...

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Courtney O'Brien

26 Mar 2025

People and Lifestyle

Airman son of Korumburra to be honoured at Australian War Memorial

SAMUEL Donald Whiteside known as Donald or Don to his friends left the family farm in Korumburra like many others during WWII never to return. On Saturday, March 29 the Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice...

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Sentinel-Times

25 Mar 2025

People and Lifestyle

Vietnam War refugees remembered and celebrated

FIFTY years after the end of the Vietnam War Bass Coast has joined with former Governor General Sir Peter John Cosgrove to acknowledge the history of Australia’s Vietnam War refugees. The Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association in partnership...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Mar 2025

News

Bass Coast gardens weekend was good enough to eat

THE annual Bass Coast Edible Gardens weekend is done and dusted for another year, but what a fantastic event it was with the weather kind and lots of visitors and locals finding there way around to the 16 amazing gardens, 14 of them new to the...

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Michael Giles

11 Feb 2025

People and Lifestyle

Caregiver returns for a life in aged care

HAVING spent a lot of her childhood living in nursing homes, there was a degree of inevitability about Paula Viergrever’s career path. For the past two decades, Paula has been the heartbeat of care at Gippsland Southern Health Service as a nurse...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Feb 2025

People and Lifestyle

Melanoma survivor urges others to check for skin cancer

A WOMAN who never thought she would get a melanoma at her age is urging the community to inspect their bodies for skin cancer. Sharyl Brockett, a Social Worker at Bass Coast Health (BCH), endured two surgeries in 2019 to remove a deep melanoma from...

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Sentinel-Times

31 Jan 2025