Leonard Fenning is a visionary who has delivered on his plan to create an intermodal freight terminal at Bairnsdale. The new terminal beside the rail siding in Bosworth Road is now ready to operate with maximum road weight 40-foot containers able to be lifted and placed on or off rail or road trucks. The complex is set up for 24-hour operation with lighting installed for night operation. Further...

Bairnsdale Neighbourhood House (BNH) has outgrown its dilapidated old building in Dalmahoy Street and plans are afoot to demolish the exisiting structure and rebuild. Chief executive officer of the Neighbourhood House, Leanne Jennings, says due to “structural issues” associated with the 32-year-old building, knocking it over is the only course of action. Ms Jennings says the house has “passed...

The future of Bairnsdale’s mall is expected to be considered at a future East Gippsland Shire Council meeting after it has become a virtual desert since Woolworths vacated its leased premises last year. Since Woolworths moved further up Nicholson Street, where it opened a new store beside Aldi, other businesses in the immediate vicinity of the mall have been struggling to survive. Several have...

Construction of a brand-new Kmart store will begin in Bairnsdale soon, with Kmart finally answering the community’s call to bring a big-format store back to town. Property owner, Newmark Capital, will develop the new building with construction expected to begin within weeks.  The Bairnsdale Motor Inn, on the Princes Highway, is presently being demolished to make way for the new Kmart. Kmart...

There are growing concerns that the retirement of some of Bairnsdale’s most prominent doctors is likely to create a scarcity of professional medical knowl-edge in East Gippsland. Long serving doctors, Graham Bromwich, John Urie and Jane Greacen have all retired from their medical practices in recent weeks. All three doctors were a mainstay of the Bairnsdale medical fraternity. President of the...