Bad noise
THE Victorian Labor Opposition has been making a lot of noise recently about funding cuts to Victoria’s hospitals.
Daniel Andrews should be embarrassed because the...
No jokes on smokes
THE majority of smokers take up the habit as teenagers. That’s why Cardinia Shire Council is to be congratulated for prosecuting a local retailer...
Hall has it all
At first light each Anzac Day up to 1000 residents rise from their beds and march by lantern-light through the streets of Kooweerup to...
Boy trapped under special swing
By CASEY NEILL
A PAKENHAM boy, 7, suffered head and facial injuries when he became trapped beneath a wheelchair swing this morning.
CFA and SES crews...
Auction action as Peter bids farewell
By BRIDGET SCOTT
THIRTY years on and its time for Peter Willis to put down the chainsaw and turn off the tractor, as he prepares...
Colour me happy
JUDGES were blown away by the standard of the Yakkerboo colouring competition.
This year the Yakkerboo festival committee teamed up with Pakenham Library to hold...
All star cause
By MELISSA MEEHAN
THEY are stars in their own right, and Grade 6 students in Emerald now have it on their backs to prove it....
Hundreds of Puffing Billy trees face the chop
By MELISSA MEEHAN
MORE trees than ever before fell over tracks along the Puffing Billy line in 2013.
This increase led the railway commissioning a...
Early baby is unexpected delivery
By BRIDGET SCOTT
THE loading zone became the delivery zone outside St John of God Hospital in Berwick last week when baby Tully Elizabeth just...
Friends rally to tot’s aid
By DANIELLE GALVIN
AT just one-year-old, Rhylan has 18 doctors and specialists he sees regularly to help make his life a little bit easier.
He was...
Egg-cellent for kids
By BRIDGET SCOTT
THE Easter Bunny won’t be the only one hopping down the halls of the West Gippsland Hospital this year.
A member from Pakenham’s...
Give where you live
By BRIDGET SCOTT
A GOOD Friday appeal will be held right at the doorsteps of Berwick locals when the Rockn’ Suzies host their fund-raiser for...
Pakenham MP leads assisted dying laws change
Pakenham MP Emma Vulin is helping lead a push to reform Voluntary Assisted Dying laws in an effort to provide suffers of terminal illness...
