SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council elected Cr Jim Fawcett mayor for the next 12 months, this afternoon. Cr Fawcett of Leongatha won the role by one vote from incumbent Cr Kieran Kennedy of Venus Bay. Cr Jeanette Harding of Toora was voted deputy mayor, winning the post from Cr Mohya Davies of Foster. Former deputy mayor […]
THE Committee for Gippsland hosted a Future Gippsland Group discussion in Leongatha last Wednesday about food production and agribusiness for the region’s future. Participants discussed what they saw as the major challenges, opportunities and issues for everything from farm gate and primary production, through to food processing and manufacturing, and pursuing international export markets for […]
EDNEY’S Leongatha is celebrating two milestones this month. The dealership has been selling Nissan vehicles for 40 years and Hyundai for 10 years, and dealer principal Darryl McGannon and his team want you to celebrate with them. “We’re one of the longest serving Nissan dealers so we just wanted to celebrate that,” he said. Throughout […]
EXXONMobil Australia held its annual community liaison luncheon at the Foster Golf Club last Thursday. Lunch attendees included representatives from South Gippsland Shire, South Gippsland Water, Gippsland Ports, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, district emergency services (CFA brigades, Police, State Emergency Service, Rural Ambulance Victoria), primary and secondary schools and more. Barry Beach Marine Terminal […]
SMOKING rates in Bass Coast Shire Council are higher than the state average. An estimated 20.8 per cent of Bass Coast residents smoke, more than the state average of 15.7 per cent. In South Gippsland, about 14.1 per cent of people smoke. The figures came as the State Government plans to crack down on smoking […]
PEOPLE as young as their thirties are living in aged care in South Gippsland. Bass Coast Regional Health accommodates a young woman, as well as several people in their fifties, at its hostels at Wonthaggi and San Remo, in a mix of high and low care. But despite being surrounded by people decades older than […]
THE Bass Coast Artists Society is in the running for a Victoria wide award. The group is one of just three finalists in the Regional Achiever Award of the 2013 Regional Achievement and Community Awards. The honour recognises the society’s establishment of the Wonthaggi ArtSpace Community Gallery a year ago and the gallery’s success so […]
LEONGATHA Lyric Theatre’s upcoming production of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters will feature two recognised actors. Joanne Street and David Tattersall appeared on stage together in Lyric’s production of Educating Rita in 2010; a performance that won them each of them the trophy for most outstanding actor in a comedy or drama at the Gippsland […]
THE cream of Victoria’s young dairy leaders has risen to the top again, with the selection of the 2014 UDV New Zealand study tour group. The United Dairyfarmers of Victoria, the dairy group of the VFF, together with the National Centre for Dairy Education Australia (NCDEA), conducted a rigorous screening program to select candidates for […]
There were 657 cattle penned which was nearly 400 less week on week with the usual buying group present but not all operating fully in a dearer market. Recent price decreases and reasonable spring growth across most of Gippsland have kept cattle in the paddock this week, although this is not the case for all […]