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Grant runs dry for retirement villages
Casey Council has announced plans to discontinue the Retirement Villages Development Grant program (RVDG), which provided 13 villages in the municipality with more than $200,000…
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Crop house discovered in Hampton Park street
Police members from Endeavour Hills and the SD3 Divisional Response Unit located a large cannabis crop house during a search warrant in Hampton Park. Police…
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Council flooded with submissions to draft development plan
Casey Council has received more tha 1000 submissions to the Hampton Park Hill Draft Development Plan, as objections to a proposed waste resource and recovery…
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‘Nanga’ steps down as Redbacks coach
2022 Hampton Park coach Nathan Wilson has informed the club he will not continue next year, stepping back from the role for family reasons. He…
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$21m Doveton pool approved
City of Casey administrators have voted unanimously to keep the recently-endangered Doveton Pool in the Park with more frequent opening hours this summer. On 16…
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Crossing the line on 400th run
For 400 Saturday mornings, enthusiastic parkrunners have woken up early to get active around Berwick Springs Lake. As Victoria’s fourth-longest operating group, Berwick Springs Parkrun…
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Community upgrades for Berwick Village
A mural art installation in Berwick’s Kempson Walk is the latest addition in works to upgrade the existing outdoor dining spaces established in Berwick Village…
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Awful Augusts in Afghanistan
I don’t normally believe any month or day is any worse than the other, but for some reason August has an awful place in the…
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Backing Neighbourhood Houses
Berwick’s Neighbourhood House is set to receive increased recurrent funding should the Liberals win the State election. In 2018, additional funding of $5.4m per annum…
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Gun-toting carjacker jailed
A man has been found guilty of firing a shotgun inside a car as he robbed and car-jacked its occupants in Doveton. Omar Kakar, 34,…
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Resilience project tackles kids’ mental health
According to Beyond Blue, one in seven young people aged 4 to 17 experience a mental health condition in any given year. Yet young people…
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Extra opening hours floated for Doveton pool
The recently-endangered Doveton Pool in the Park could be set to open more often this summer, as part of a Casey Council proposal. The council…
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