Surf Life Saving Lakes Entrance (SLSLE) has enjoyed a largely risk-free holiday period. Patrolling Main and Eastern beaches from Boxing Day to Australia Day and continuing with weekend patrols until ANZAC Day, the club’s young patrol unit has been kept active as an influx of tourists and visitors flocked back to town following previous COVID interruptions and restrictions. While, thankfully,...

It seems chips were not the only thing scarce in Lakes Entrance over the Christmas holidays – prawns have been up and down in their supply as well. The boats have reported that it was a very slow start to the season with the unstable weather not helping. When the Lakes Post visited the boats on Friday, only one was still open at 9am but had already run out of cooked prawns.  They had some...

Children have returned to classrooms in a smooth and orderly fashion is the report from local schools. Toorloo Arm Primary School welcomed 19 new prep students and their families on day one and they were ready to go. "All students returned eager to explore their new classroom environments, jump back in to the learning routines and meet up with their friends," Toorloo Arm principal, Kerry Hughes,...

The Lakes Entrance Amateur Basketball Association (LEABA) will host a club coaching course on Sunday, February 19. The course will be conducted at the Lakes Entrance Youth and Recreation Centre between 10am and 4pm. Basketball Victoria and LEABA highly recommend that any coach, both domestic and representative who has not yet completed this course, attends and obtains this accreditation....

Australia Day drew a large number of visitors to Lakes Entrance, Lake Tyers Beach, Metung and surrounds with most turning it into a four-day weekend.  There was a steady stream of traffic from Wednesday evening with some motorists citing it took them six hours to travel from Melbourne to Lakes Entrance. The long weekend kicked off the successful Australia Day celebrations on the foreshore...