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Show time, no kidding
By BEN CAMERON
CITY of Casey mayor Mick Morland will be on hand to present several awards at the Berwick Show this weekend. As a...
Memorial stirs community spirit
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
THE community spirit present in the wake of the Ash Wednesday fires was again alive at a memorial over the weekend.
Cockatoo community...
Rachael’s dream wedding
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A 21-YEAR-OLD Pakenham woman given 12 months to live said her one dream was to marry her adoring fiance in her hometown...
Tractor mishap: back injuries
By BEN CAMERON AND GEORGIA WESTGARTH
A MAN in his thirties was taken to Dandenong Hospital with back injuries after flipping a tractor onto its...
Buddies nurtured, bullies nipped
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A HELPING hand is always on call at a Pakenham primary school which initiated their inaugral buddy program last week.
Pakenham Consolidated School...
$200,000 to stop frogs croaking
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
REPAIRING collapsed portions of the frog fence along the Pakenham bypass will cost 80 per cent of the initial cost of $250,000.
The...
Paddy at the Goon pub
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
EXPECT bright, new faces when you pop into the Nar Nar Goon pub for a pot or pick up a pot roast...
A Rose by any other name
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
JACLYN Milner hardly needs an alarm to wake her up in the morning.
Her prized two-year-old pooch Ruby Rose has it down...
Lively history for dead centre
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A CEMETERY that is the final resting place to some of Cardinia Shire’s most influential people has been open for business for...
Lang Lang’s top citizen
By RUSSELL BENNETT
PEOPLE like Karen Brown are exactly what make small towns like Lang Lang tick. She is community-minded to the core and would...
McMillan MP on spill and more
IT’S been a tough 12 months for the Abbott Government, but the last thing it or the country needs is a change of leadership,...
Roadshow sharpens math skills
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
BEACONSFIELD Upper Primary School got a valuable lesson in arithmetic earlier this week when the “Travelling Maths Roadshow” came to school.
On Monday,...
Pakenham Line resumes
Trains have resumed on the Pakenham Line after an earlier suspension between Berwick and East Pakenham due to debris on the overhead wires.
V/Line Gippsland...
