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Pakenham Road closed, man airlifted after two-car crash
By BEN CAMERON
UPDATE 11.35AM:
PAKENHAM police Leading Senior Constable Anthony Templar said the 22-year-old Gembrook man was travelling south along Pakenham Road when he was...
Another option for the girls
By JARROD POTTER
BACK-to-back Youth Girls’ premiers Beaconsfield is extending the nest to include an Under-12 girls’ football team.
Beaconsfield’s Youth Girls’ team, started in 2012,...
Here’s one for mum and sis!
By JARROD POTTER
FROM baking heat to driving snow, Reece Caldecourt’s start to 2015 has certainly taken him places.
Caldecourt, 17, from Pakenham, was selected for...
It’s Chaos for the Cup
By JARROD POTTER
THE defending champions are out to bring the Chaos Cup from Newborough back home to Bunyip.
The Bunyip Strikers - playing out of...
Grappling with a world champ
By JARROD POTTER
IT’S NOT often a world martial arts champion helps take a Sunday morning training session. So it was a great thrill for...
Beer trade brewing
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A RE-BRANDED brewery in Doveton is fast becoming the go-to watering hole in the state’s south-east.
The Brownstone Micro Brewery, attached to the...
MP backs headspace call
By BEN CAMERON
CALLS for a new headspace centre in Pakenham have the support of Federal Member for McMillan Russell Broadbent.
The Gazette revealed last week...
Exotic pest invades pines
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
HARKAWAY has been declared a restriction area following the outbreak of an exotic insect which has infested close to 500 trees.
Giant pine...
‘Covert’ site slammed
By BEN CAMERON
A PLANNED community and recreation precint set to be built four kilometres out of Lang Lang would be detrimental to the town,...
Poppy plaque for service
By LIA SPENCER
WORLD War I veterans who died after they returned to Pakenham and surrounds can now be commemorated for their service.
Special poppy tiles...
Fun cyclone of safety
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A DETERMINED 15-year-old will soon open her own arcade store in Kooweerup to get her peers off the streets and socialising in...
Prime cuts for research
Those who grow and sell prime lambs or breed and sell rams for prime lamb production are invited to participate in a new research...