Community

Applications are now open for the 2026 South Coast Community Leadership Program (SCCLP), a free six-session initiative designed to grow leadership opportunities across Bass Coast and South Gippsland shires.

As we reflect on the end of last year, I would like to thank the Corner Inlet community for the incredible support shown through Manna Gum’s 2025 Christmas Appeal.

If you haven’t already got your hands on a copy of this year’s Foster Show schedule, be sure to keep an eye out around town with the following locations regularly topped up: Foster and Fish Creek Post Offices, Foster Foodworks, Foster Vet Clinic, Ag Warehouse Foster and Brown

Social media ban? Rainy days ruining summer? Bored and confused? The cure has arrived! Prom Coast kids are encouraged to sign up for the Big Summer Read, which starts 1 December and invites children and teens to stay curious and connected over the holidays.

South Gippsland Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre (UCC) in Foster is staffed by the ward nurses 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to assist people who require urgent or emergency assessment and treatment, even though it is not a formally funded Emergency Department (ED)