Ocean Grove Voice

07/03/2025

Barwon Heads Primary School is hosting many events as it turns 150. 🎉🥳📚

Barwon Heads Primary School (BHPS) is celebrating 150 years of educating local children with a series of events to bring [...]

07/03/2025

The Ocean Grove Apple Fair is coming back for another year. 🍎🍏🍎🍏

The apple of Ocean Grove Primary School’s eye is back for another year, bringing fruit-themed entertainment and food to the [...]

07/03/2025

Cottage by the Sea’s Adam Wake is back from an Ultra Marathon in Sweden.❄️🎿🗻

Cottage by the Sea’s chief executive Adam Wake returned from a 230km Ice Ultra Marathon across Swedish Lapland last week [...]

06/03/2025

Avalon Airport has reopened following a fi****ms incident.✈️🚔

Avalon Airport has reopened with flights operating as normal after a boy allegedly tried to force his way onto a [...]

06/03/2025

🗳️ What matters most to YOU this Federal Election? 🗳️

The countdown to the election is on, and we want to hear from
suburban & regional Australia! 🌏🏡 What issues are shaping your vote?

Cost of living? Housing? Healthcare? Something else?

Ocean Grove Voice & The Geelong Independent are running a quick 5-minute survey to gauge community sentiment ahead of the big day.

📢 Have your say & make your voice count! 📢

👉 Take the survey now 👉 https://geelongindy.com.au/competitions/25-02-2025/reader-survey-have-your-say-about-the-federal-election/ #//

Or, grab a copy of this weeks newspaper for all the details in print!

We’ll share the results with our readers, so don’t miss this chance to be part of the conversation! 💬

05/03/2025

A rare treat for country music fans. Brad Cox is heading to little old Barwon Heads. 🎸

It’s a long way from the rolling plains of central Queensland to the surf of Barwon Heads, but Aussie country [...]

04/03/2025

It was a run fest for a couple of English imports as they piled them on while creating a new Wallington Cricket Club record. 🏏🇬🇧

Wallington’s James Sood and Billy Gravett had never batted together before, but left Newcomb's Ervin Reserve on Saturday breaking a [...]

21/02/2025

An extreme fire danger day has been announced for the Surf Coast tomorrow.☀️🔥🚒

There will be changes to Surf Coast Shire Council’s services due to Saturday’s extreme fire danger day. Temperatures are expected [...]

21/02/2025

Pako Festa Geelong is back for 2025!

The award-winning Pako Festa returns to Geelong this weekend for the 43rd time. The event will transform Pakington Street into [...]

20/02/2025

Bailey Smith has made an immediate impact at Geelong.🏈

Bailey Smith has made an immediate impact at Geelong, starring early in their AFL pre-season hit-out against Hawthorn. The 24-year-old [...]

17/02/2025

A Collendina Cobras Cricket Club teenager made his maiden century on the weekend and it's been on back of some good old fashioned hard work. 🏏

Collendina young gun Harrisyn Wingrave notched up his maiden century with a superb innings against Wallington in C1 Grade on [...]

14/02/2025

Thousands of mourners filled GMHBA Stadium’s Brownlow Stand to honour the life of Troy Selwood.🕊️

Troy Selwood has been remembered for his 'laughter, light and love' during a memorial service at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium. Family, [...]

07/02/2025

The Flying Brick Bellarine Sunset Run is back on this Saturday for its 10th year. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️⛅️

It’s been 10 years since Ocean Grove residents Dion and Liberty Milne decided to take their favourite local running trail [...]

07/02/2025

Kane Nuttall shares his struggles with addiction in this week’s Friday Feature.

The ‘I Am Enough’ documentary will be screened in Geelong next week, showcasing the impacts of lived experience in the [...]

03/02/2025

The region has experienced some intense weather overnight.⛈️🌡️💨

Geelong erupted into chaos overnight on Sunday as lightning, wind, rain, and hail shook the region, leaving properties damaged and [...]

24/01/2025

This week’s Friday Feature is on the Sunflower Queen of Torquay.🌻🌻🌻

Vera Tosevski has been growing flowers for most of her life and holds the title of sunflower queen. As the [...]

23/01/2025

Cottage by the Sea Queenscliff’s Adam Wake is taking on the Arctic challenge.❄️☃️🎿

A Queenscliff man will brave the cold to raise money for children in need during an Arctic ultramarathon in Swedish [...]