Tag: News
Pakenham wakes with a jolt
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
HUNDREDS of residents have been shaken this morning by the largest earth tremor to strike Pakenham in the past 50 years.
Geoscience Australia...
Friend is guiding light
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
WHEN Zac de Silva campaigned for change in his Narre Warren South community, he knew his close friend Riyani was...
Teen speaks out against violence
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
“I THINK it’s time that someone heard a teenager’s thoughts on violence.”
This plea was written in a letter by 13-year-old Kelsey Ryan...
Blackers down memory lane
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
SERGEANT John ‘Blackers’ Blackburn looks back at the last 10 years and wonders where they went.
The police veteran has been...
Desperate plea for help
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A BERWICK mother with chronic arthritis has made a desperate plea for help to care for her 22-year-old daughter who...
Labor triumphs, denies bullying
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THE ALP’s Luke Donnellan has comfortably retained the seat of Narre Warren North as his party seized a resounding election...
Lodge garden opens doors
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
BERWICK Lodge Primary officially opened its community garden last week.
Casey mayor Mick Morland visited the school last Friday afternoon to...
Cheese panel
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
DOUG Eddy has fond memories of cheese.
He ought to - the Narre Warren resident has worked in the dairy industry...
Bouncing back beats bullying
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THE facilitator of a teenage bullying resilience program at a Berwick medical centre hopes the initiative will receive funding so...
Authority denies fuel was dumped in landfill
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
THE Environment Protection Authority Victoria has ruled out a link between the Lyndhurst prescribed-waste landfill and last month’s aviation gas...
Now it’s the kids
By BRIDGET SCOTT AND LACHLAN MOORHEAD
Police grateful, but concerned about children attacking parents...
DESPITE a community’s huge effort to reduce the rate of...
Stand against domestic violence
By CASEY NEILL
MORE than 700 people took a united stand against family violence in central Dandenong last Friday.
They came to Dandenong Market...