![]() ‘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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