Show’s strong footings
By BEN CAMERON
ONE of Pakenham’s oldest and proudest events will return next year with a new name.
The Parklea Pakenham and District Agricultural...
Explosion of colour
By BEN CAMERON
IMAGINATION, a good sense of humour, and a drive to try something different.
That’s all you need to become a bona...
All abilities leader all the way
By BEN CAMERON
LOCAL children of parents with a disability can thank the work of a tireless advocate from Beaconsfield for making their...
Excellence well tracked
By BEN CAMERON
A BERWICK student almost got lost but eventually found herself while attaining the world’s highest achievement award for young people.
Kaitlyn...
Keeping joeys comfy, warm
SIXTY baby orphaned kangaroos and wallabies will be more comfortable this Christmas, thanks to the efforts of Beaconhills College students.
Year 7 Textiles students have...
Heat on arsonists
By BEN CAMERON
THE Cardinia Shire remains one of the highest fire risk areas in the state, according to a south-east police commander,...
Did the earth move for you?
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
HUNDREDS of residents were shaken on Thursday morning by the largest earth tremor to strike Pakenham in the past 50...
Quite a send off
CHAIRO Christian School Pakenham campus held its Middle School presentation night for its Grade 5 to Year 8 students at Finlay Hall on Friday...
Call out proves false alarm
PAKENHAM Central Marketplace was evacuated just before noon last Friday morning, leaving over a 100 customers and staff out the front of the complex....
‘Instrument of change’
By BEN CAMERON
A BEACONSFIELD mother’s daily fight to remove barriers for people with disaibilities has reaped the highest of local praise.
Disability services...
Living with urban growth
A WEEK-long social health survey of local residents will cost Cardinia Shire Council nearly $15,000.
Council engaged Market Solutions to carry out telephone surveys of...
Finesse in hair, beauty fields
TWO Pakenham students have scored awards at Community College Gippsland’s recent Hair and Beauty competition.
Vanessa McLean and Julie Niessen won first and second prize...
No prosecutions over forklift driver’s
A state coroner has found the death of a Kooweerup man operating a failing forklift in Dandenong South in 2022 was “preventable”, yet there...
