PROBLEMS on the South Gippsland Highway between Lang Lang and Yarram will be fixed. Deputy Premier Peter Ryan made that promise in Port Welshpool last Thursday night. He was guest speaker at a dinner held during the quarterly meeting of the lobby group, South East Australian Transport Strategy. Mr Ryan said the State Government had [...]
THE State Government has indicated planning rules could be relaxed slightly in South Gippsland. Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said councils need more flexibility to determine development in their own municipalities, rather than be governed by a state-wide policy. He has urged South Gippsland Shire Council to submit examples of planning permit applications that would be [...]
LEONGATHA will now be at the centre of any emergency in the South Gippsland and Bass Coast shires. The town is the base for a new incident control centre overseeing the two municipalities in such incidents as fires and floods. The revamped level three centre could even be used to manage interstate events. Leongatha was [...]
A GARBAGE truck rolled in Loch early this morning (Friday) in what can only be described as a lucky escape. A member of the CFA told The Star the truck’s brakes failed moments before the crash, losing control as it turned out of Clarence Street into Victoria Street. The driver was thrown through the windscreen [...]
A CATTLE truck rolled over along Buffalo-Tarwin Lower Road early this morning (Wednesday), although the driver escaped serious injury. The truck, carrying 86 head of Red Angus cattle, was allegedly forced to swerve around a tight bend to avoid an oncoming collision with another truck. “There were two trucks, one coming each way, and one [...]
ONE of the men who lends his surname to a renowned livestock and real estate agency is winding down. Michael Stevens has retired from his directorship of Stevens Egan Johnston (SEJ) but remains committed to serving his clients as a casual employee of the company he helped found. After 51 years as on agent and [...]
TRUCKS ply through the Leongatha CBD at an extraordinary rate. They seem to be at their busiest first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon. But there are many during the day as well. The Star took a survey, totally lacking in bureaucratic rigour, for 20 minutes from 9.50am yesterday, counting a total [...]
ONE of Inverloch’s most historic properties, the Two Views Guest House site, was passed in at auction on Saturday for $1.7 million. But LJ Hooker Inverloch director Kevin McMahon said negotiations for a sale would continue. Among the frontrunners for the property was Inverloch real estate identity Dennis Ginn, who made the final auction bid. [...]
MORE people could have fulfilled their dream of building a house on rural properties if not for a mistake by South Gippsland Shire Council. Council overestimated the number of properties eligible for permits under the C51 planning scheme amendment. Earlier this month, councillors were told that during negotiations with the former State Government about rural [...]
DAIRY farmers have welcomed the latest price rise by Murray Goulburn but are still catching up after returns plummeted two years ago. MG last week announced a step-up, bringing the average farmgate price to about $5.25 per kilogram of milk solids. Fonterra recently lifted prices to give an average annual return of $5 per kilogram. [...]