Staggering home
By Melissa MeehanMany commentators have assessed the federal campaign as the most boring in history, perhaps due in large part to the overly controlled,...
Sticking by our traders
By Melissa MeehanPAKENHAM is preparing to show its pride in the CBD as works start on the Pakenham Marketplace.
As part of a plan...
Peter’s plan
By Jade LawtonMr Fraser, a self-described ‘straight-shooter’, plans to tackle three or four key issues over the next 12 months.
The manager of Berwick’s...
This is not just a yarn
THE Black and Coloured Sheep and Woolcraft Day is on again this year.
Hosted by the South East Region of the Black and Coloured Sheep...
Not a patch on Lorraine
LORRAINE Devine has taken out the State Challenge Award at the Country Women’s Association State Craft Exhibition held at the Longwarry Public Hall last...
Earth Boy’s coming
EARTH Boy and the Mutant Ballerinas are coming to town… No, it’s not an alien attack but Kooweerup Secondary College’s latest theatrical offering.
The school’s...
A bank on Manks
IT was blue skies and puddles on
Demand strong and prices steady
IT IS the middle of August and there was a larger penning of cattle offered at VLE Pakenham.
The larger yarding were mostly of...
Don’t jail me- Jamie Tabone, leaving court with his girlfriend, is a serial hoon....
By Mara Pattison-SowdenJamie Alex Tabone’s lawyer said he was initially “gobsmacked” by his client’s “irrational behaviour”, but said it was caused by a previously-undiagnosed...
Double gamble on alpacas
By Peter SweeneyLEZLEY and Steve Golding were “introduced” to alpacas at a Home Living Show at ‘Jeff’s Shed’ in the heart of Melbourne.
They instantly...
Numbers fall but prices rise
ANOTHER reduction in the number yarded at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, on Wednesday saw 150 less head than the previous week.
Prices were...