‘Select few’ sink town plan
Dec 13, 2022 - How the big end of town hijacked the community’s vision for Wonthaggi … Frank Coldebella reports. 
Warley apartments win plaudits
Dec 15, 2022 - Unanimous vote for five-storey complex that ‘closes chapter on Warley Hospital’. 
Call of the wild
Dec 14, 2022 - Linda Cuttriss visits Scenic Estate Reserve and finds Nature has reclaimed it despite the efforts of developers, boy racers and vandals. 
Wind powers savings
Dec 14, 2022 - Bass Coast Shire Council has saved almost $30,000 and almost 2000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the past 12 months by using renewable energy. 
The thrill of the chase
Dec 14, 2022 - Curator Warren Nicholls warms to the challenge of selecting 26 artists for Phillip Island’s fourth summer pop up exhibition. 
Mini-bus please!
Dec 14, 2022 - No fixed routes, no timetables … think of responsive transport as an Uber for mini-buses. 
Hats off to a band of amateur brickies
Dec 15, 2022 - Christine Grayden applauds the musicians who built the iconic Cowes band rotunda. 
A tale of two gardens
Dec 15, 2022 - Amidst the freezing gales of this strange summer, Geoff Ellis has time to reflect on those who came before. 
Walk this way
Dec 15, 2022 - A warm welcome – and lots of information – await visitors to Coronet Bay’s foreshore walk. |
Prom inspires prize-winning work
Nov 28, 2022 - Lucinda Bain has won the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with The Prom, a personal interrogation of the writer’s place in nature in the midst of a climate emergency. 
The Prom
Nov 28, 2022 - Lucinda Bain's prize winning essay celebrates the beauty of our world and our diminishing hope for the future. It ends on a hopeful, simple, profound fact. 
She and I
(and truth and fiction) Nov 28, 2022 - Grace Elizabeth Elkins, a Cape Woolamai writer and teacher, won the short section with an intriguing exploration of the way an adolescent illness has informed personal perspective and memory. 
One Morning, on the Way to School
Nov 28, 2022 - Warragul author Jim Connelly, a retired teacher and church minister, has won second prize in the short section of the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with his rollicking yarn of the daily school bus ride from Garfield to Warragul in the 1940s. 
Sands of Time
Nov 28, 2022 - Cape Paterson author and publisher Kit Fennessy has won third prize in the short section of the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with a witty slice of memoir that seamlessly weaves together metaphysics, geology, history and Jimmy Hendrix. 
Fancy footwork
Dec 14, 2022 - After a lifetime of dancing, Gay Gibson is still spreading the joy of a good workout for body and mind. Liane Arno reports Community diary
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