A STATE government report has found the existence of Big Cats “highly unlikely” and those reported sightings are more likely to be large feral cats. Agriculture and Food Security Minister Peter Walsh said the desktop study by the Department of Primary Industries and the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research found there was a lack […]
KILCUNDA-Bass Football Club will be reprimanded after being photographed drinking beer during wild grand final celebrations on Saturday. The Alberton Football League grand final winner, a signatory to the Good Sports program (which promotes the responsible serving of alcohol), was warned in advance that its players should not be photographed drinking beer on the field. […]
IT takes something special to last a decade in a business, however it takes something extraordinary to last two. Jetset Leongatha is proud to be celebrating its 20th birthday this week, with Jill and Ed Carmody originally taking over Great Southern Travel on September 14, 1992. When they first took over the business all those […]
ALBERTON Football League president John Schelling described the weather on grand final day at Foster as perfect. “It’s a top day, with hardly any wind and not too hot,” he said. POLICE were out in full force at the AFL grand finals at Foster and did a great job policing underage drinking, confiscating alcohol and […]
POLICE were letting motorists know they are always on the watch with a number of operations last week uncovering nearly $100,000 worth of unpaid fines. Officers from the Bass Coast Highway Patrol, Cowes and Inverloch worked alongside the sheriff’s department to conduct another Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) operation in various locations in the Bass […]
REPAIRS have begun on a major landslip along Fairbank Road in Arawata. The road first began to give way in mid-August, while wild weather two weeks ago caused a larger section of the road to fall away. One lane of the road remained open, while the outside lane was closed off by South Gippsland Shire […]
KARIN McKenzie admits she has become a bit feisty “in my old age”. She has a very strong sense of social justice and lives out that concern by trying to address issues of family stability and life’s inequalities through her membership of the Anglican Church’s Mothers’ Union. Karin is now president of the diocesan Gippsland […]
BURRA Foods has made bold moves to grow and they are paying off. “We embarked on quite an ambitious growth plan a couple of years ago and we are well on track with that plan,” Dale O’Neill, general manager for commercial said. “We’ve had softer commodity prices and had quite a high Australian dollar for […]
THE Leongatha Parrots have missed out on a grand final berth, losing to Maffra by just one point on the weekend. The preliminary final, played at Moe, saw the Parrots going in to the game with just one change -Murray Fleming in, Brok Davidson omitted. The Eagles came out strongly, kicking the first goal of […]
ALL dairy farms create effluent and wastewater and using these efficiently is beneficial for the farmer. A well-planned and well-designed effluent management system is a must for an effective dairy farm but there’s one thing to keep in mind when it comes to this: different things work for different people on different farms. When it […]