Three local primary schools will share part of the State Government’s $2 million Minor Capital Works Fund to fast track priority projects.Lakes Entrance Primary School will receive $171,165, Nungurner Primary School receive $53,120 and Metung Primary School $125,605.Lakes Entrance Primary School applied for the grant in hopes of receiving enough money to replace the old weathered playground. It...

The Gippsland Lakes Paddle Challenge will return in 2021. A signature event for East Gippsland and Victoria’s premier paddle event was cancelled this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, however planning has begun for its return next year. The inaugural event in 2011 had 30 starters. It has since grown to become the largest multi craft paddling event in Victoria with more than 150 paddlers competing...

To many people the bushfires of last summer may seem to be from another time and place with the bizarre way this year has played out.Not so for Nungurner artist, Dore Stockhausen, who has devoted her year to documenting the impact of the fires on some of the region’s forests, the result of which can be seen in her exhibition, The Edge of My Vision – Fire, at oneofftwo, in Nungurner this coming...

With the lifting of the ring of steel around Melbourne, Lakes Entrance, Metung and Lake Tyers Beach were almost at full capacity with many wanting to get away for the weekend.Motels and caravan parks benefitted greatly and welcomed visitors gladly.Monica Williams, from Koonwarra Holiday Park, had all cabins fully booked and only a few van sights available.“As soon as (premier) Dan (Andrews) said...

Local writer, Pat Kelly, has just published her fourth book, Beyond the Seas. She has a special affinity with the Isle of Man, having lived there for many years, and this novel begins there with 11-year-old Alice Moore who has been abandoned by her mother. Alice battles for survival and is eventually sentenced to be sent to Australia on the Lady Juliana, a female only convict ship, part of the...