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...
Sporting pledge
By Jade LawtonA COALITION Government would chip in $200,000 towards a major upgrade for Officer Recreation Reserve, La Trobe MP Jason Wood announced this...
Busy year for Red Cross
BUNYIP Red Cross held their annual general meeting and 50th anniversary of the unit which was formed in August 1959/60 with 150 members.
Shirley King...
Champion of the chamber
By Jade LawtonBERWICK stalwart Wilma Barron was made a life member of the Berwick Village Chamber of Commerce on Monday night.
Kay Drysdale, who...
Grass-fed heifers take the market lead
AFTER some very successful store cattle sales at VLE Pakenham the previous week, the competition between feedlots and restockers was stronger, which saw a...
Secondhand robes
By Kelly YatesA BERWICK woman is using her passion for recycling and the environment to start up what she says is Berwick’s “first recycled...
A farewell for the president
By Jade LawtonAFTER three years and countless hours of hard work, Berwick Village Chamber of Commerce President Harry Hutchinson has stepped down from the...
Verna seeks out opportunity
Nestled in between a bike shop and Goody Food Bar on Station Street, the Pakenham Opportunity Shop – formerly the local TAB - has...
Strong demand peaks
THERE was a similar size yarding at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, last Wednesday as there was the previous week and prices were hard...
Don’t fence me in
By Jade Lawton
FOUR Emerald families are trapped in their own homes after a post-and-rail fence was erected across their road.
The fence, put up...
Motorsports boon
By Jade LawtonLOCAL P-platers could undertake defensive driver training for as little as $50 when Pakenham gets its long-awaited motorsports facility.
Speaking at a...
Holy smoke
By Russell BennettThe move came in time for the approaching bushfire season, Police and Emergency Services Minister Bob Cameron said.
But bushfires were the least...
Lions get three on the trot
Pakenham’s momentum is rolling into the second half of the season after the Lions picked up their third straight win in round eight of...
