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Depths of despair
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
WITH heads bowed and their hands held aloft before their sombre faces, the elderly women prayed.
Such was the scene on Tuesday morning...
A special kind of someone
By BRIDGET COOK
IT WOULD be hard to find more reluctant award recipients than at the Casey Volunteer Awards winners.
That’s because volunteering takes a special,...
Draft budget reveals 6.3 per cent rate rise
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
CASEY rates and waste charges will increase by an average of 6.3 per cent, outlined in the council’s 2014/15 Draft Budget to...
Two nabbed in drugs raid
POLICE who stormed an alleged methamphetamine lab in Berwick last week found a "significant amount" of cash during the raid, suspected to be proceeds...
Hands up for classmates
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
JUST before it closed down in 2008 Chris Holland walked through his old stomping ground at Doveton Technical School and felt nostalgia...
Hills civic project
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THE construction of a ground-breaking new community precinct in Endeavour Hills will begin as soon as next year, with the City of...
You’re terminated
By BRIDGET COOK
CASEY has hit back at the State Opposition for “cheap political point-scoring” after using a Casey Cultural Precinct informational video as an...
Services in the dark
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
WELFARE services in Casey are no clearer on the amount of government funding that will be cut from their programs following the...
Ice age ambos
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
AMBULANCES are being called out at least once a week to treat people using crystal methamphetamine, otherwise known as ‘ice’.
A Turning Point...
Rail upgrade questioned
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
CRITICS are pondering the value of a $2 billion-plus upgrade of the overcrowded Cranbourne-Pakenham rail corridor - which will be funded under...
Port boost
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THE Victorian Government is committed to investing in the Port of Hastings, according to State Treasurer Michael O’Brien.
Speaking at a breakfast held...
Agency action increases anxiety
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A CRANBOURNE man, who claims he was taken off the public housing waiting list without being told by DHS, fears his health...
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Emerging youngsters announce themselves
Vic Country took out the Under 16 Boys National Championships on the Gold Coast capping off a fine carnival of development for a host...
