Long grass a worry
By DANIELLE GALVIN
OVERGROWN roadsides in Lang Lang and Caldermeade are dangerous hot spots for local CFA brigades.
Lang Lang Fire Brigade captain Mark McPherson was...
Home hot-spot
By DANIELLE GALVIN and DANNY BUTTLER
Soaring sales shoot suburb up the property ladder...
PAKENHAM is the hottest property in the Australian real estate market.
Latest figures...
Racecourse says farewell
By DAVID NAGEL
THE Pakenham Racing Club bid its final farewell to its old track on Racecourse Road on the weekend to bring down the...
Hunt on for arsonists
POLICE are investigating suspicious fires that have been lit across the state in the past week including at Cockatoo and Drouin West.
Since Thursday last...
Haze calls have helpers fuming
COMMUNITIES across Melbourne are being urged not to call Triple-zero if they see smoke unless they see flames.
Emergency services are being inundated with calls.
Fire...
Power in moving tribute
By TANIA PHILLIPS
THE annual truck pull at the Berwick show is always a lot of fun and one of the highlights of the event...
Ambos join the Relay
By DANIELLE GALVIN
WHEN Beaconsfield-based Clinical Support officer David Kervin visited the Casey-Cardinia Relay for Life event last year, he was moved by the candlelight...
Forecast for a great show
By BRIDGET SCOTT
PRESIDENT of this year’s Berwick Show Tom Gibson is already looking at the weather forecast for the show later this month.
"It’s looking...
Police frustrated by easy car crime
By DANIELLE GALVIN
LEAVING a wallet in a car overnight is the same as leaving hundreds of dollars on the seat for crooks to steal.
Pakenham...
Heat call for cool
By DANIELLE GALVIN
DEHYDRATED and heat-affected birds and possums are crying out for a drop of cool water.
But Andrena Francey from the Bayles Wildlife Shelter...
Specialist dreams come true
By DANIELLE GALVIN
DARE to dream is the wording on the sign out the front of the newly opened Officer Specialist School.
A school for special...
It’s in the blood
By BRIDGET SCOTT
BORN and bred in the town of Berwick, it was inevitable Debbie Akister and Andy Fyfe would one day be part of...
Gutsy moves bring success
**DEVON MEADOWS, HAMPTON PARK and TOORADIN-DALMORE - three clubs that battled in the old South East Football Netball League (SEFNL) together for many years...
