After 17 years, Changing Lanes - a holistic program catering for the educational needs and wellbeing of Bairnsdale’s most vulnerable young people - has closed its doors, bringing to an end an important chapter of alternative education in Bairnsdale. Changing Lanes was established by the East Gippsland Local Learning and Employment Network (EGLLEN) in 2003 as a result of growing community concern...
Concerns have been raised with the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) testing protocols in checking the identification of those being tested and those leaving Melbourne checkpoints. Local businessman, Simon Ellis, of the Old Station Café, says he has had to turn away one customer and had others from lockdown areas wish to purchase or dine at his café. He said there needs to be...
