Tree pest scales new heights
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A RESTRICTION zone designed to protect trees from a deadly, sap-sucking pest in Harkaway has near tripled as the introduced pest spreads...
Gallipoli General at ease
By GARRY HOWE
GALLIPOLI hero Brigadier-General Cecil Henry Foott received one last - and long overdue - decoration in Berwick on Saturday.
Local historians Jane Rivett-Carnac...
Council cuts down Anzacs
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
LESS than two weeks out from the centenary of Anzac Day, Casey Council has replanted the entire Harkaway Avenue of Honour.
Historic...
Chase driver on the run
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
POLICE, including Special Operations Group officers (SOG), swarmed Officer South earlier this week in search of a man who dumped his crashed...
Shoot and run
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
POLICE are continuing to hunt for the driver who dumped a fatally shot Berwick man and a critically injured Upper Beaconsfield man...
The address of honour
By GARRY HOWE
THE line of 40 oak trees that form Kooweerup’s new Avenue of Honour could not have had a more appropriate address than...
Action stations
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
THEY’RE often first to respond to emergencies in Cardinia Shire’s fast-growing area, yet Beaconsfield CFA is limited by their out-dated ‘tin shed’...
Woman trapped in drain crash
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
A NOTORIOUS Dalmore intersection was again the scene of a serious traffic accident this week, leaving a woman trapped in her car.
The...
At home to hotspot
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
RECORD house sales in Pakenham have hit a city-wide high with the town being ranked Melbourne’s top buying hotspot.
Since January, more than...
Kick-start my heart
By RUSSELL BENNETT
PORTABLE defibrillators save lives, and Kooweerup Recreation Reserve committee chairman Leigh Kirby fears the disappearance of the device from the clubrooms at...
Where you can join in Anzac tradition
Emerald
The Emerald Anzac Day dawn service will be held at the recently-opened Anzac Place, next to the Emerald RSL, from 5.30am on April 25....
Atkins bags biggest prize
THE annual Lang Lang Show and Rodeo brought in the crowds this Easter with around 2500 people watching Bryden Atkins win the open bullride...
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Focus at the forefront for Forsyth
Dandenong Cricket Club coach Tom Donnell laughed when asked about Brett Forsyth’s training habits.
The pair, former school teammates and later premiership teammates, played...
