Bottleshops not strictly enforcing underage taboo
BY JARROD McALEESE
A JOINT study conducted by Victoria Police and Communities That Care has found that more than one in three bottle shops in...
Prized super kid Maddie
By ALANA MITCHELSON
A PAKENHAM teenager has been announced as a Super Kids national awards finalist.
Maddison Berry received her award and tablet prize on Monday...
Drunken driver gets six years for fatal crash
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
THE YOUNG drunken driver who drove a Pakenham Upper man to his death in a horrific high-speed car crash in Beaconsfield last...
Detectives’ long road to murder arrest
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
FOR the next four months, the man accused of killing Pakenham mum Kylie Blackwood will sit in jail awaiting his August murder...
Sex page rip out order defended
By ANEEKA SIMONIS AND ALANA MITCHELSON
ST Francis Xavier College’s Berwick campus principal has defended controversial orders handed down to students to rip out material...
Town icon changes hands
By ALANA MITCHELSON
LES Jones positions an old wooden block in front of the mirror where the barber’s chair would usually sit.
It is the same...
MP’s courtroom outburst
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
EMOTIONALLY charged Liberal MP Brian Paynter stood up in court today, calling out Kylie Blackwood’s accused killer as a “coward” and...
Joint push to end violence
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
ESCALATING levels of violence experienced within Cardinia shire homes will be the focus of a two-day forum which aims to bring about...
Wig library brings fresh hope
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
CONFIDENCE now beams from a previously “distressed” Berwick chemotherapy patient strengthened by a new self-esteem.
With a smile, nurses at St...
High flyers ramped up
ON THEIR four wheels, youngsters showed they had what it took at the recent SEL Skate and BMX Comp state heats in Pakenham.
The...
Container break-in: chargers, drinks stolen
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
THOUSANDS worth of electronic accessories and drinks were stolen from a petrol station storage container in Pakenham.
The Woolworths Petrol storage container located...
Firearms burgled from farm house
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
SHOTGUNS and rifles were burgled from a Kooweerup farm house forcibly broken into by at least one gun-wielding offender still on the...