THE sound of power tools and hammering will no longer be heard at Inverloch Primary School. Construction of the new $5 million school is complete. Staff and students moved into the second building over the school holidays, complementing the new main wing featuring classrooms, library and administration. Landscaping will be undertaken once finer weather arrives [...]
POLICE are still investigating the cause of a truck crash in Korumburra yesterday (Wednesday) morning. They are yet to determine if the accident occurred due to a mechanical problem or driver error. The diesel truck rolled at the top of the Commercial Street, blocking the street – the South Gippsland Highway - for 12 hours. The tanker [...]
A TRUCK driver was airlifted from Tarwin Lower after a garbage trucked rolled on to its side this afternoon (Monday). The truck was travelling from Venus Bay along Inverloch-Venus Bay Road when its wheels left the ground around a corner, two kilometres from Venus Bay about 2.30pm. The driver said the cause of the rollover [...]
ROADS were closed and properties inundated with water yesterday (Thursday) as heavy rainfall caused flooding throughout South Gippsland. Toora, Welshpool and Hedley were the worst hit areas and large sections of the South Gippsland Highway between Meeniyan and Yarram were underwater, causing mayhem for motorists. A driver attempting to drive through flood waters at 80km/h [...]
TARWIN Lower Primary School’s new building will be opened with a community gathering on Wednesday, August 3. The $850,000 building houses every one of the school’s 49 students, and features three classrooms and a shared area come library. The open plan design allows students to mingle freely Principal Sharyne Munday and others moved furniture and [...]
POLICE are surprised that a patient managed to escape from the Latrobe Regional Hospital’s psychiatric ward at Traralgon. The man held police at bay for five hours at a property in Stockdales Road, Koonwarra, yesterday (Tuesday). Local police arrived around 2.30pm and the 38-year-old man threatened police with a machete and chainsaw. The address was [...]
THE Bureau of Meteorology has issued a flood watch warning for South Gippsland. Heavy rain is expected to hit the region over the next couple of days with daily rainfall rates of 20 to 50mm forecasted. Throughout 2011, South Gippsland has already received well over the average rainfall for the year with multiple hits of [...]
SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council has been accused of spending too much money on new staff to the detriment of services. Those claims have been levelled at council by an angry ratepayer and Cr David Lewis, who last week said ratepayers wanted spending on core services, not extra staff and programs that gave a “warm fuzzy [...]
WEST Gippsland Regional Library Corporation will have to cut services. The details are not yet determined but they’re caused by State Government funding being slashed. In West Gippsland’s case, it amounts to $15,302. And that, said corporation CEO John Murrell, represents the annual running costs of a small library like Poowong. He’s not suggesting it [...]
DRIVERS have been urged to pay attention on the roads, after the fifth fatality in three weeks on South Gippsland roads. A 19-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision on the South Gippsland Highway just west of Korumburra on Friday afternoon. The incident followed the death of three men in two separate collisions last [...]