THE top Alberton Football League players are netting more than $30,000 a season, with payments of up to $1500 a game and sign on fees of up to $5000. One high-profile player recently reneged on such a deal, accepting an even better offer from a Melbourne club. The AFL club has denied his initial attempts […]
THE State Government won’t force GippsTAFE and its East Gippsland equivalent Advance TAFE to merge. However, in a classic case of government spin, they will be expected to “integrate their governance and management structures”. Which, according to Greg Barclay who is the vice president of the Australian Education Union Victoria, is a merger by any […]
FORMER members of Moonya Community Services have described the demise of the organisation yesterday (Monday) as “appalling”. The Wonthaggi organisation became officially defunct after servicing the community for almost 50 years. State Minister for Disability Services and Reform, Mary Wooldridge, announced last Friday Connecting Skills Australia has been appointed to provide services to the Wonthaggi […]
VENUS Bay residents have voted to lock their meter boxes as SP Ausnet plans to rollout smart meters in the town in the coming days. Two public meetings were held in the town last Friday, with audiences packing the Venus Bay Community Centre. Husband and wife, John and Sonja Rutherford, from the Broadmeadows Progress Association, […]
KORUMBURRA’S town centre was the focus of community consultation sessions last Thursday. South Gippsland Shire Council officials, and planners and engineers from Hansen Partnership and GTA Consulting, gathered with the public to discuss what could be improved in the town’s centre. Craig Czarny, director of Hansen Partnership, headed the consultation. “You may be thinking that […]
INJURED Leongatha footballer Beau Vernon is out of rehabilitation and back at his family home in Newhaven. After months in hospital and a rehabilitation centre, he is more than happy to be back home. “It’s definitely good to be out of rehab and moving forward with life,” he told The Star. “I’m settling in well […]
WOMEN in the Bass Coast will be checked by new state of the art technology in breast cancer screening launched in Wonthaggi last week. Victorian Health Minister David Davis officially launched the new digital technology at BreastScreen Victoria Clinic at Bass Coast Regional Health. “The Wonthaggi clinic is expected to provide more than 1600 BreastScreen […]
ROUGHLY 14,000 kilometres from home, Theresa Drewer is taking on a class full of nine and 10 year olds, and loving it. Ms Drewer is teaching a Grade 4 class at Korumburra Primary School for 2013 as part of an exchange program. Candice Huntly, the usual Grade 4 teacher at the school, has swapped classrooms […]
THOMAS McFarlane of Leongatha has returned home from the 2013 Cycling Australia Junior Track National Championships with a gold medal in his back pocket. McFarlane collected gold in the final of the Under 17 team sprint race on Friday night by crossing the line for Victoria just three hundredths of a second ahead of the […]
