Tree top chop
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
Timber! Syd Pargeter in court for allegedly hacking the crowns off his neighbour’s cypress trees.
Ex-mayor slams legal team as he faces criminal...
Lock down in Pakenham
By NICOLE WILLIAMS
PAKENHAM'S normally quiet Gardenia Street was in the spotlight today as police moved in to cordon off a residence.
Police were tight lipped...
Comport gives comfort
PRECEDE -
Helen Comport is among a dedicated group of people looking out for our Australian soldiers.
The Harkaway resident started the Australian branch of Quilts...
Trees tug of war
By RUSSELL BENNETT
CARDINIA Shire Council is holding firm on its insistence that Worrell Reserve’s iconic Monterey pines must come down so that the oval...
Smurfettes in the pink
By NICOLE WILLIAMS
THE Pink Smurfettes have every reason to walk 60 kilometres to end women’s cancer - three out of four smurfettes have had...
Race to the top
By DANIELLE GALVIN AND NICOLE WILLIAMS
CARDINIA Shire councillors are off and racing in the battle for the mayor's robes.
Councillors will come together on 11...
Town gears up for market
THE Kooweerup community will come together on Sunday for the first big market in town.
The RSL and CFA have organised the market to be...
Keys handed in
By NICOLE WILLIAMS
LONGTIME Berwick businessman David Nutter is hanging up the car keys for a quieter life.
Last month, the well-known owner of David Nutter...
Mirinda and the happy hippos
By NICOLE WILLIAMS
MIRINDA Thorpe calls Pakenham Upper home, but the 25-year-old’s heart is in Africa.
She has visited the continent four times in seven years,...
Art show under threat
By DANIELLE GALVIN
THE Yakkerboo Art Show is under threat if the dedicated committee can’t attract fresh faces.
President Bronwyn Fleming is calling on the community...
‘Let us grieve privately’ — Blackwood family
By DANIELLE GALVIN
THE family of slain Pakenham mum Kylie Blackwood has appealed for the media to leave them alone in a statement released today.
Homicide...
Mums’ poster power
By Danielle Galvin
IF THESE hands could talk... they’d be screaming at you.
These are the words from the children living with Type 1 diabetes who...














