November 12, 2020
Fighting the weeds invasion
DEPARTMENT of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) are tackling invasive plant species with a new strategy and plan labelled the Woody Weeds Program. Forest,...
November 12, 2020
Grow Free cart keeping on
JAN JUC Grow Free has stood the test of time and continued to operate throughout the COVID lockdown, connecting the community through fresh produce. The...
November 5, 2020
Calendar winners unveiled
THE results are in for the 2021 One Agency calendar competition. The brief was simple: show One Agency what you love about Torquay, Jan Juc,...
November 5, 2020
Lions Club and Bellbrae Cemetery Trust team up
TORQUAY Lions Club has partnered with Bellbrae Cemetery Trust to assist with maintenance and minor works at the cemetery. Trust chair Jeff Wapling said before...
November 5, 2020
Geelong-raised musician revisits youth
The sprawling and contemplative "Saturday Night" is Nick Lovell's first solo single in four years. The song is an abstract reflection on his youth spent...
November 5, 2020
Annual festival keeps kites flying
DESPITE COVID-19 restrictions halting usual festivities of the annual Surf Coast Kite Festival, children and their parents braved the wild wind to fly kites. The...
November 5, 2020
Movember keeps growing
Joining the nice weather and increasing social liberties over the next month will be a worldwide increase in moustaches as another Movember begins. It might...
October 29, 2020
Surf Coast and Bellarine will rock again
LIVE music can again be enjoyed in small numbers outside, as restrictions ease in regional Victoria and local music venues the Torquay Hotel and...
October 29, 2020
Post-COVID tourism campaign encourages people to stay the night
GREAT Ocean Road Regional Tourism have announced new campaign The Great Sleepover to reinvigorate tourism and support local businesses as COVID-19 restrictions ease. The campaign...
October 29, 2020
Hope Song goes digital
SURF Coast playwright and author Janet Brown's theatre production The Hope Song has been released online by a Sydney production company. The video has been...
October 29, 2020
Ocean Grove zeroes in on BMX track
OCEAN Grove is one step closer to having its own purpose-built BMX and mountain bike park after Corangamite federal member Libby Coker announced her...
October 29, 2020
Torquay veterans honoured
LIGHT poles and shop fronts on Gilbert Street have been adorned with Torquay's living World War Two veterans to commemorate 75 years since its...
October 29, 2020
Local organisations unify to protect clifftop habitat
MAKESHIFT hangouts have been identified and piles of rubbish collected from forcibly cleared bushland along the Jan Juc clifftop. A coalition comprising Victoria Police, Surf...
