The second East Gippsland Winter Festival kicks off this weekend with the 'Beers, BBQ & Beats in Laneway3875' event this Saturday being dubbed as "a mid-winter celebration of art, music, good food and craft beer". Starting at 6pm, the family-friendly laneway party will feature spectacular lighting projections, DJs, hip-hop artists, live acoustic music, roving performers, mouth-watering...
A proposed decrease in the commercial/industrial rate for East Gippsland businesses has given them an early Christmas present. While farmers are angry about a proposed rate hike of 13.98 per cent in this year’s East Gippsland Shire rate notices, commercial and industrial businesses are poised to receive a 14.32 per cent cut to to their rates. Melissa and Mark Hopley who own the Potted Pear on...