Graffiti grips town
By GARRY HOWE
CARDINIA councillors concede that graffiti has become so bad, particularly in Pakenham, that it is contributing to a feeling of unease over...
Warning after knife robbery at park
By DANIELLE GALVIN
A PAKENHAM mum says her 17-year-old son is terrified to leave the house after he was threatened with a knife at Bourke...
Swinging into accident action
By CASEY NEILL
A BIG brother rushed to his trapped sibling’s aid at a Pakenham playground on Monday morning.
Denver, 12, ran from PB Ronald Reserve...
Opportunity costs
By GARRY HOWE
BORROWING $20 million to purchase the new Cardinia Civic Centre in Officer has taken the shire’s debt level to a peak of...
Bad noise
THE Victorian Labor Opposition has been making a lot of noise recently about funding cuts to Victoria’s hospitals.
Daniel Andrews should be embarrassed because the...
No jokes on smokes
THE majority of smokers take up the habit as teenagers. That’s why Cardinia Shire Council is to be congratulated for prosecuting a local retailer...
Hall has it all
At first light each Anzac Day up to 1000 residents rise from their beds and march by lantern-light through the streets of Kooweerup to...
Boy trapped under special swing
By CASEY NEILL
A PAKENHAM boy, 7, suffered head and facial injuries when he became trapped beneath a wheelchair swing this morning.
CFA and SES crews...
Auction action as Peter bids farewell
By BRIDGET SCOTT
THIRTY years on and its time for Peter Willis to put down the chainsaw and turn off the tractor, as he prepares...
Colour me happy
JUDGES were blown away by the standard of the Yakkerboo colouring competition.
This year the Yakkerboo festival committee teamed up with Pakenham Library to hold...
All star cause
By MELISSA MEEHAN
THEY are stars in their own right, and Grade 6 students in Emerald now have it on their backs to prove it....
Hundreds of Puffing Billy trees face the chop
By MELISSA MEEHAN
MORE trees than ever before fell over tracks along the Puffing Billy line in 2013.
This increase led the railway commissioning a...
Bondi terror attack: urgent call for blood centre
Residents are urging the Victorian Government to establish a local and permanent blood donation centre in the wake of the terror attack in Sydney.
The...
