Trevor grows to count his blessings
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
ON THE surface Trevor Longmuir is an affable, salt-of-the-earth farmer - quick with a hearty laugh.
He loves his work, running two farms...
They’ve got the deuce
YOUNG tennis stars from Beaconhills College could serve up a world number one when the school opens the Tennis School of Excellence at the...
Netball friends for life
By BRIDGET SCOTT
RITA Matthews, 90, can still remember the positions she and her life-long friends played in, in the first Nar Nar Goon netball...
Volunteers’ silver do backed
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
OUTLOOK will again throw its weight behind National Volunteer Week later this month as it celbrates the initiative’s 25th birthday.
The Pakenham-based community...
Time for hard decisions
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
DWELLING in the lush Cockatoo bushland, Ian Robins is a world away from the responsibilities of steering a growth-areas council.
As chief executive...
Ratepayers tell council of their struggles
By BRIDGET SCOTT
RESIDENTS at a Cardinia Shire Council information session last week told officers that they were unhappy with rate rises.
About eight residents turned...
Gutted over chopped trees
By DANIELLE GALVIN
"OFFICER has had its guts totally ripped out."
Long-time Officer residents have told of their dismay as they watched trees along the Princes...
School hopes for upgrade cash
By DANIELLE GALVIN
AN $8.5 million investment in Kooweerup Secondary College would finish the school’s refurbishment - one of the biggest building projects the town...
Man hit by bypass truck
A MAN in his 30s is in critical condition after he stepped out of his car on the Pakenham Bypass and was hit by...
Badly injured in smash
By BRIDGET SCOTT
A MAN and woman are in a critical condition following a head-on collision on the Old Princes Highway in Officer this morning (Wednesday).
A 43-year-old...
Small businesses come to life
By DANIELLE GALVIN
A BUSINESS exposition run by the Lakeside Community Development Forum (LCDF) could reinvigorate a Pakenham business group for local traders.
The event will...
Council bid to buy cop shop
By DANIELLE GALVIN
THE old Emerald Police Station in the heart of town could be turned into a community hub if Cardinia Shire Council buys...
Friendship put aside
It wouldn’t be right to say the has been tension in the air this week at the Barry Plant Pakenham office.
But the banter has...
