Pokies enjoy fruits of losses
By BEN CAMERON
A POKIES reform campaigner said Cardinia gaming venues should consider limiting their operating hours after residents lost an additional $700,000 on gaming...
Hundred reasons to celebrate
THE countdown finally ended on Monday for a group of excited preps at Pakenham Consolidated School.
The youngsters were proud to celebrate their 100th day...
Bloomin where they’re planted
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
FINDING a job hadn’t exactly been a bed of roses for Sudanese-born asylum seekers Eisa and Muhummad.
That was until the pair were...
Kids back to nature
By BRIDGET SCOTT
HUNDREDS of schoolchildren across Cardinia got their hands dirty last week in the name of nature.
Schools all the way from Garfield to...
Medals come home
By BRIDGET SCOTT
PAKENHAM RSL president Gary Elliott was privileged to make a presentation to a "dumfounded" Berwick resident last Wednesday when he reunited the...
Creek on camera as Percy steps in
By BEN CAMERON
EIGHT talented Beaconsfield students are hoping their short film will provide a big message about water conservation and the environment.
Beaconsfield Upper Primary...
Leeson’s great lesson lauded
By BRIDGET SCOTT
A LANG Lang legend described as a 'true asset’ modestly accepted the annual Stan Henwood Award at a community grants night in...
Riders on bound rounds
By BRIDGET SCOTT
A 25-YEAR-OLD event in Berwick will go ahead in October after failing to run earlier in the year.
Horse lovers and equestrian riders...
Family’s murder nightmare
Anne Cousins of Berwick shares with Gazette readers her thoughts and feelings around the murder of her sister-in-law Kylie Blackwood in 1 August last...
Dog days at work
By BEN CAMERON
IT'S not often a workplace has happily gone to the dogs but that’s exactly what’s happening in one Dandenong office right now.
It...
Plugging the disaster gap
ECHO Youth Services will be able to better prepare for disasters thanks to a helping hand from the State Government.
Echo Youth Services received $38,000...
Police chopper in Pakenham man hunt
By BEN CAMERON
PAKENHAM police are searching for a man following an alleged armed robbery at a business on Eagle Drive about 9.40am today.
A police...
Child safety breaches ends Funtastic Gymnastics
Child safety allegations against a part-owner have prompted the abrupt closure of the popular Funtastic Gymnastics in Berwick, with the governing body continuing its...
