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H20 a top tourist attraction

H20 a top tourist attraction

Paynesville's H20 Tours and Adventures has been recognised for its outstanding work by winning the Tourism Activities and Attractions category at the 25th Gippsland Business Awards last Friday night at Federation University. With a focus on the eco-tourism market, leveraging opportunities to build and expand tourism industry business networks, developing marketing, business tools and its people,...
Police motorcycles return

Police motorcycles return

Police motorcycle operations in the East Gippsland and Wellington police service areas have returned. For various reasons, police solo's have not been utilised on a sustained basis since about the mid 1990s. However, after considerable work by Wellington Highway Patrol and eastern district 6 (ED6) command, bikes are now back patrolling. Senior Sergeant Luke Banwell, who heads up road policing...
Fight to prevent subdivision

Fight to prevent subdivision

A group of Paynesville residents are concerned about a plan currently before the East Gippsland Shire to develop a multilot subdivision in Fullarton Drive. The first stage of the subdivision, which would involve 59 lots, has created anxiety for residents living on Fullarton Drive and in nearby streets. A planning application that came before the East Gippsland Shire Council last week in relation...
Bream classic comes to town

Bream classic comes to town

All roads will lead to Metung on the weekend for the 2023 edition of the Vic Bream Classic. A huge field of 57 teams of two anglers will descend on the fabulous Gippsland Lakes for two days of competitive fishing action. Crews will take to the water between 7am and 2pm on both Saturday and Sunday in search of the heaviest combined bag of five bream on each day. The classic is a lure and fly, tag...
Dream or nightmare?

Dream or nightmare?

Residents who have built homes in Brookfield Lakes, an estate on the edge of Bairnsdale's east end, are concerned about  proposed changes which would allow portable homes on an adjacent vacant parcel of land. One concerned resident said allowing Unregistrable Moveable Dwellings (UMD's) was akin to creating a trailer park. East Gippsland Shire Council (EGSC) has received a request for...
Burn the bush more often

Burn the bush more often

A prominent fire ecologist believes the reintroduction of regular burns across the landscape are a necessity for the prevention of larger uncontrolled bushfires. University of Melbourne Associate Professor of fire ecology and management, Kevin Tolhurst, said reintroducing "low intensity fire across the landscape" was necessary to thin the thick undergrowth in bushland. Touring the High Country...

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