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About: Alistair Finlay

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Editor at the Ballarat Times News Group. Once at Westlock News, The Advocate, and the Latrobe Valley Express. Oilers fan. Email: [email protected] Facebook: @alistairfinlayjournalist twitter: @alistairfinlay_ Instagram: @alistairfinlayeditor

Posts by: Alistair Finlay

May 21, 2020

Trails’ triple treat

ONE-HUNDRED and one kilometres of trails, mostly in Golden Plains Shire is set for significant upgrades following a funding announcement. Known as the Three Trails...

May 21, 2020

State, council go 50/50 on Buninyong street work

THE main shopping areas of Buninyong are set for major capital works following a joint funding announcement between the State government and the City...

May 20, 2020

The advisor is in for Business Day

Author, radio and TV financial personality steps up as Commerce Ballarat event speaker with plans to bust the pandemic challenges.

  WHILE the way...

May 20, 2020

Country living with City access – feedback is in on Golden Plains 2020 vision

THE community has had its say on what Golden Plains Shire might be like in twenty years, and the outlook is the same...

May 19, 2020

Sunnyside up for WesEggs

LIKE most businesses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has had an affect on Maude based WesEggs, but the business has been able...

May 18, 2020

CEO sent packing, search on for interim replacement

CITY of Ballarat councillors have voted to terminate the contract of CEO Justine Linley. The move came at an extra-ordinary, two-and-a-half hour, meeting of council...

May 18, 2020

Councillors react to damning report

CITY of Ballarat councillors are currently meeting formally to discuss the findings of the State Ombudsman’ report into the conduct of CEO Justine Linley. We...

May 18, 2020

‘Unwise at best’ – CEO’s conduct under scrutiny

LAST week's State Ombudsman’s report into issues with senior City of Ballarat staff contained several findings against CEO Justine Linley. In all, six current...

May 18, 2020

Demeo resigns

EMBATTLED City of Ballarat director of infrastructure and environment Terry Demeo has announced his resignation. In a statement released to the media Mr Demeo said...

May 15, 2020

Council to meet behind closed doors on CEO report

CITY of Ballarat council will meet on Monday night at 6pm to discuss the ramifications of Thursday’s Ombudsman’s report into staffing irregularities relating...

May 15, 2020

Municipal elections to go ahead as planned

THIS year’s planned local government elections will proceed as scheduled on Saturday 24 October by postal vote. The announcement came following speculation the municipal vote...

May 15, 2020

Minister set to intervene in City staff scandal

A SPOKESPERSON for the State government has said that the Minister for Local Government, Adem Somyurek, will “seek an explanation” from the City of...

May 15, 2020

Calls for more local renewable power purchasing

THE wider Grampians region has become an epicentre of renewable energy generation and now there are calls for big users of electricity in the...

May 14, 2020

What Terry Demeo did: The things that brought down a director

The report by the State Ombudsman is highly critical of the City of Ballarat's former director of infrastructure and environment Terry Demeo, especially...

May 14, 2020

City CEO, Director Infrastructure and Environment stood down over Ombudsman’s report

CITY of Ballarat CEO Justine Linley and Director Infrastructure and Environment Terry Demeo have been placed on indefinite leave following the release of a...

May 14, 2020

Vinnies, FoodBank chip in big at food donation site

GIVING continues flow freely at the city’s emergency food drop off location with organisations and individuals digging deep to support people in need. In the...

May 14, 2020

Sweet treats: Mars says thanks to frontline COVID-19 workers

MORE gratitude is on its way to healthcare workers at the coalface of the COVID-19 pandemic after Mars Wrigley purchased ten-thousand dollars’ worth of...

May 14, 2020

Canopy cover project under growth

THE City of Ballarat’s Urban Forest Action Plan is starting to take root with tree planting underway in suburbs that lack significant green cover. The...

May 13, 2020

New COVID-19 case detected in Ballarat

BALLARAT Health Service has confirmed that new case of COVID-19 has been detected in a Ballarat resident. In a statement released by BHS the health...

May 12, 2020

Farmer’s market heads to the net

THE Golden Plains Farmers’ Market is back. Sort of. With the regular Bannockburn event cancelled indefinitely due to COVID-19, the Shire has launched a new...

May 11, 2020

COVID-19 restrictions to be slightly eased from tomorrow night, state of emergency remains

PREMIER Daniel Andrews has announced a slight loosening of restrictions on people’s movement as the state continues to see to limit the spread of...

May 9, 2020

New Delacombe BP hits the market

ONE of Ballarat’s newest retail spaces, the recently completed Delacombe BP service station on the corner of the Glenelg Highway and Whiltshire Lane, is...

May 8, 2020

Botanical Gardens replanting begins

BEAUTY will be in full bloom at the Botanical Gardens this autumn. More than 30 garden beds have been replanted in the gardens themselves, as...

May 7, 2020

Driving through to support our community

YOU normally associate drive-throughs with picking up food, not dropping it off. Yet that’s what’s been happening in the loading dock of the Ballarat Library...