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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

December 16, 2022

Some surgeries off at Base

THE Ballarat Base Hospital will limit some elective surgeries until further notice. Implemented on Friday, 9 December, Grampians Health administrators moved to cut the volume...

December 10, 2022

River reopening welcomed by paddle steamer operator

A MOVE by the New South Wales State Emergency Service to reopen parts of the Murray River has been backed by a paddle steamer...

December 9, 2022

New rules for City pool

IF it ever gets warm enough to make going to a local pool this summer worth it, there are now new rules covering children...

December 7, 2022

Fill your stockings, and your table

DTC has everything you need this Christmas!

  COME and see Santa, do some Christmas colouring and shop for longer with extended trading hours...

December 2, 2022

Park closed for concert

PARTS of Victoria Park and some near by roads have been closed ahead on the Spilt Milk music event this Saturday. Access to Victoria Park...

December 2, 2022

Authorities make burn-off call out

THE States firefighting authorities have made a combined call for people to register their burn offs ahead of this summer’s fire season. Ongoing rains and...

December 2, 2022

Way opened for the Warriors

THE Woady Yaloak Football Netball Club, better known as the Woady Warriors, have taken the next step in their development as an organisation. On Monday,...

November 25, 2022

Temple and music plans get ALP backing

AN election commitment to the Ballarat Indian Association for significant capital works at the site of the organisation’s cultural centre in Ross Creek has...

November 25, 2022

Libs go back to basics in final week

ROADS and schools have been the focus of local Liberal Party pledges as the State election campaign headed into its final week. In Creswick, current...

November 18, 2022

State election candidates confirmed

THE list of people running in this month’s State election have been locked in. Last Friday saw the close of nominations for the vote, with...

November 18, 2022

Recycling and sports grounds a focus for Libs

WITH the State election just days away, the Liberal Party has continued making promises to the Ballarat community. Recently recycling and sporting facilities were the...

November 18, 2022

FedUni to benefit from TAFE pledge

THE State election campaign rolled back into Ballarat on Monday with Premier Daniel Andrews using Federation University’s Mount Helen campus as a backdrop for...

November 18, 2022

Labor commits to regional publishers

AN election pledge from the Labor Party would see support for regional newspaper publishers continue if re-elected. Announced last Friday at the Victorian Country Press...

November 14, 2022

New garden to get growing

SEEDS have been planted for a new community garden in Sebastopol. Costing $320,000, the project is being coordinated by the Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre and comes...

November 13, 2022

New images paired with old paintings

A NEW exhibition on show at the Art Gallery of Ballarat is pairing works by members of the Australian Impressionist movement with those of...

November 12, 2022

Trades on show for school students

FEMALE high school students from Ballarat and the wider region have gone hands-on at a recent trades education day. Called Girls Try-A-Trade, the event saw...

November 10, 2022

Libs pledge $7m for Miners Rest sports precinct

COMPETITION for voters on Ballarat’s north-western fringe continues to heat up with another election pledge in the area, this time at Miners Rest. Last week...

November 6, 2022

Donation of late artist’s work connects families

THE Art Gallery of Ballarat has received a donation of work by late Aboriginal artist Josh Muir. Created in 2015 and 2016, the piece titled...

November 4, 2022

Work begins on lake lighting

STATE and local politicians have celebrated the start of construction on the troubled Lake Wendouree lighting project. A statement issued by the City of Ballarat...

November 4, 2022

How tall is too tall? Group wants to know

LOCAL lobby group, Ballarat Heritage Watch, will meet early next month, and the future look and feel of the central business district is on...

October 29, 2022

FedUni announces reconciliation lead

THERE’S a new associate-deputy-vice-chancellor at Federation University and he’s being tasked with the job of leading the institution’s reconciliation process. Born out of FedUni’s reconciliation...

October 23, 2022

Trade skills judge goes global

AN automotive trade educator from Federation TAFE is heading to Europe to be a WorldSkills International competition judge. A 17-year teaching veteran at FedTAFE, John...

October 14, 2022

Vigil puts light on Afghan bombing

A CANDLELIGHT vigil held opposite Town Hall on Monday evening has sought to raise awareness of about a recent bombing, and wider issues, in...

October 14, 2022

Grimley to go again

WESTERN Victoria upper house MP Stuart Grimley has been announced at the lead candidate for Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party as he seeks a second...