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Articles By: Bill Meldrum

Fighting for sea change dream

0 14 May 2012 @ 12:24 PM

A MELBOURNE resident who intends to make a sea change move to a controversial coastal strip at Narrawong believes his land can easily sustain his hopes to build a single storey two-bedroom house. Charles Hardman owns land at Ocean View [...]

Projects receive $85,000 in grants

0 14 May 2012 @ 12:22 PM

THIRTY-SIX organisations have shared in almost $85,000 from the Glenelg Shire Council for a wide variety of community-based projects. The Heywood Tennis Club was one six organisations to receive the maximum of $5000 from the second round of the shire’s [...]

Plan for 4% rate hike

0 11 May 2012 @ 11:49 AM

THE Glenelg Shire Council has proposed a 4.02 per cent increase in rate revenue for 2012-13. The details of the rate increase were given as part of the draft budget which was put out for public comment by the council [...]

Site to be born-again?

0 9 May 2012 @ 10:35 AM

THE Portland Baptist Church has confirmed it is involved in early negotiations to buy the former Portland Holden site. The freehold owner of the site, Hamilton businessman Andrew Rau, would not comment on the issue yesterday morning. However, church spokesman [...]

Wave energy co remains upbeat

0 7 May 2012 @ 10:14 AM

WAVE energy proponent Ocean Power Technologies (Australasia) Pty Ltd remains upbeat that a 19 megawatt demonstration project will be operating off the Portland coast by 2016. Gilbert George, a director of OPTA and the company formed to operate the wave [...]

Tradies seething over Hotondo collapse

Tradies seething over Hotondo collapse

0 4 May 2012 @ 4:41 PM

CREDITORS of the failed Portland Hotondo Homes franchise are seething after being told it is unlikely they will receive any payments on what they are owed. The Portland franchise operated by Heywood couple Tony and Narelle Schultze (A.C. and N.J. [...]

TAFE chief urges students to enrol

0 4 May 2012 @ 4:34 PM

CAPITAL works and infrastructure expenditure in the lower south-west has been largely ignored in this year’s State Budget with the government tightening the purse strings. The government has also sliced $100 million off TAFE funding throughout the state, causing concern [...]

Small producers feel fire impact

0 2 May 2012 @ 4:18 PM

FREE range egg producer Kaz’s Googs is one business that will feel the impact of Sunday’s Daly’s IGA Supermarket fire in Portland. The Heywood-based egg producer supplies about 200 dozen eggs a week to the supermarket. Kaz’s Googs operator Fred [...]

Move to ease rates burden fails

0 2 May 2012 @ 4:16 PM

AN attempt to reduce the rates burden on Glenelg Shire’s commercial and industrial sectors has failed. Cr Robert Halliday had moved a motion that the council seek public comment on a proposed rate strategy to reduce the rate in the [...]

Heywood business district speed limit meeting confirmed

0 30 Apr 2012 @ 4:01 PM

HEYWOOD and district residents will be given an opportunity to push their concerns about the speed limit on the Princes Hwy within the town’s business district at a public meeting on May 9. The Glenelg Shire Council has organised the [...]

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