News
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Tuning in to the job market
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Being a musician, Berwick man Dave Stergo knows well the barriers to work. “You can’t just do one thing as a musician,”…
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Art lovers flock to Bunjil for fix of soul
By Cam Lucadou-Wells In an indication of Casey’s untapped love of the arts, Bunjil Place Gallery has been packing in visitors in its first month.…
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Knife at daughter’s throat
By Cam Lucadou-Wells An ice-addicted woman has held a knife to her 10-year-old daughter’s throat and held her hostage during a supervised contact visit at…
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More than a few wise men for Christmas
By Cam Lucadou-Wells More than 100 friends of Akoonah Park Men’s Shed shared festive cheer with an impressive Christmas lunch spread. A colossal mix of…
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Councillors fire up on lantern trip
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Casey councillors are divided on a $5500 ratepayer-funded research trip to Arizona, USA in preparation for a proposed lantern festival in 2019.…
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Heat is on hospital cladding
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Monash Health is set to remove flammable cladding from Casey Hospital but states the hospital is “safe to occupy”. The cladding will…
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Soup kitchen’s long line of ‘customers’
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Transit soup kitchen in Narre Warren is as successful as any enterprise – just on customer growth alone. “Come to me if…
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Cancer campaigners on a roll
Narre Warren North friends and neighbours rolled down bowls and afternoon tea delights in the name of cancer research. Along the way, organisers Leanne Egglestone…
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No flood of SES callouts
By Cam Lucadou-Wells State Emergency Service volunteers at Narre Warren prepared for the worst but received just a “trickle” of call-outs during the state’s deluge…
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Sweet vision for Casey
By Cam Lucadou-Wells If you were to design a City of Casey future, what would be in your cloud-capped vision? A sample of Maramba Primary…
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Armed robbers should be ‘deeply, deeply ashamed’: judge
By Cam Lucadou-Wells Three ex-Dandenong men armed with a shotgun and machetes during a terrifying early-morning robbery of a Narre Warren servo have been chided…
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Bail refused for alleged thief
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A man with a “prolific” criminal history has been refused bail over a string of alleged thefts from cars. Ryan Eyles, 19,…