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With a little help from their friends

BLIND and vision-impaired students from the Insight Education Centre are making friends with junior school students at Beaconhills College in Pakenham while taking part...

Disaster relief in hind sight

pic ashgiles2 caption: Red Cross supplies arrive at Pakenham Hall in the days following Ash Wednesday. JUST hours before a deadly fire made its way toward...

Seamless move for op shop

IT ONLY took two weeks to open the new Garfield Op Shop after the old one left town and moved to Pakenham. Helen Davey is...

Flames tale retold

ANN Fogarty’s story of Ash Wednesday and the months of recovery that followed would give anyone goose bumps. It took 10 years of looking inside...

Twins turn best mates

THAT first day of school is an exciting day for many young children, but eight Preps from Beaconsfield Primary School had an extra reason...

Go on, get it off your chest!

MALE drivers should be excused for doing a double-take while on their way to Nar Nar Goon this week ... or should we say...

Peter’s a top citizen at 97

PETER Boekel is not an average 97-year-old man - he is a bright spark, clever and remarkably “with it” for a man of his...

Man injured in roof fall

EMERGENCY authorities hoisted a 48-year-old man to safety after he fell from a ladder last week and twisted both of his ankles. The man was...

Viva Pakenham!

A BILLBOARD near the corner of Bald Hill Road has been rejected by Cardinia Shire Council for fears the intersection could turn into ‘Las...

Cam’s bench stolen

A PARK bench with the words ‘In loving memory of Cameron Lowe’ engraved on a plaque has been stolen in what the teen’s mother...

Ready to roar

ALL that stands in the way of Pakenham’s $25 million motorsport complex and world-class karting facility is the tick of approval from the Federal...

Rat raiders steal fishing joy

A KEEN fisherman whose boat was stolen from a Pakenham factory has described the burglars as “rats” for taking his pride and joy. Josh Winter...

Art shines light on domestic violence

The White Ribbon Art Gallery is inviting the community to a special fundraising dinner on Friday, 5 December 2025, at the Emerald Hills Hub,...