East Gippsland Shire CEO Anthony Basford has resigned after a five year stint working in our region. He has accepted a position with the Shire of Greater Geelong. It will be a six month project for Council to appoint another CEO and it is the only time councillors can have a degree of influence who becomes the East Gippsland chief administrator for the next five years or the length of the...

Over the past three weeks a group of 14 pre-service teachers from Melbourne have been living in Bairnsdale as part of the 'Teach Rural' program. This initiative has been held in every region of the state and is funded by the Victorian Department of Education, in supporting rural government schools in their quest to attract teachers into the country. The overall plan is to place 200...