The Lake Tyers Beach community is excited to see the old shop being completely refurbished and are greatly anticipating its opening. New owners, Steve Franklin and Rommel Canoy, are keen to create a café/providore style store, which will bring a little bit of Melbourne to the coast. At the very start of the COVID pandemic they decided to escape the city and were looking for a coastal area to...

While there are currently no COVID-19 cases detected in the East Gippsland region, positive viral fragments were detected in local wastewater in the Lakes Entrance area.  The positive sample was taken between August 8 and 11. As a result, Gippsland Regional Public Health Unit (GRPHU) on Friday asked the community to be vigilant and get tested if experiencing any symptoms, however minor. The...

Yet another business has reached the end of an era in Lakes Entrance with Loud Music preparing to close its doors.  Proprietor, Andrew (Surf) Stuivenberg, has owned the store for the past twelve years. “I worked for Ken Porter for two years, then he decided to offload it so I bought the business,” Andrew said. Andrew had been a photographer prior and claims technology has now put him out of...

While no positive COVID cases have detected in East Gippsland, positive viral fragments have been detected in local wastewater in the Lakes Entrance area. The positive sample was taken between August 8-11. Authorities  are asking the community to be vigilant and get tested if experiencing any symptoms (however minor), along with those who have visited an exposure site. The Gippsland Region...

Peter Camilleri has been having sleepless nights lately and decided to write to the Lakes Post to try and warn the community of the dangers of the Princes Highway. “Recently I’ve been banging on about the trees overhanging the Princes Highway from Lakes Entrance through to Tostaree and my concern is that sooner or later someone will be leaving,” Peter said. “So I decided to get on the...