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Books open up the world
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
SHANE Papatolicas’s life reads like a bestseller.
Last week Gleneagles Secondary School librarian Lynne Moller invited Shane, an English teacher from the Endeavour...
Fast moves for self defence
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
IT WAS the crime that rocked Melbourne but the murder of Jill Meagher also triggered wider reverberations that are still being felt...
MP raises noise over traffic
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
MORE than 200 Casey residents have called on the State Government to improve traffic noise pollution along the Monash Freeway.
A 282-signature petition...
Community helps stop the harm
By Cameron Lucadou-Wells
AN all-of-community response has helped curtail the unprecedented youth suicide cluster in Casey for the past 16 months, says a leading police...
Opposition launches website for road complaints
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
CASEY residents now have the opportunity to point out dangerous roads in the municipality that need fixing following the launch of a...
Event secret’s out
By BRIDGET COOK
THE lid has been lifted on what has been dubbed Cranbourne’s best kept secret.
After eight years in the making, the first Cranbourne...
Police pair with nurse
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
A ROVING after-hours service pairing a mental health nurse and a police officer will help people suffering mental health distress in Melbourne’s...
Festival for freeloaders
Keith Townsend of Narre Warren is right (Junk the Junkets, Opinion, News 31 October).
Casey ratepayers' money is indeed being wasted on junkets.
Ratepayers were...
Councillors’ contempt
I fully endorse Keith Townsend’s (Junk the Junkets, Opinion, News 31 October) comments on councillors Berkelmans and Smith.
I will add that I firmly...
Tear off a strip
In relation to It’s a Washout (Star Community, Berwick, 31 October), as nature strips are not part of the property owners’ parcel of land,...
First time fete
BERWICK Chase Primary School received a fantastic turnout at its inaugural fete last month.
Students from the school leadership group planned the entire event and...
Why are these kids pirates?
By BRIDGET COOK
...BECAUSE they aargh!
It was all hands on deck at Hillsmeade Primary School this year to bring a number of pirate themed projects...