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Mischief maker

With Cath Binding from Gembrook, former librarian at Kooweerup Secondary College. Favourite book No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod. Currently reading The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter.

Always looking to new pastures

Favourite book We were always reading when we were children. Mum was a big reader and encouraged us to read anything we wanted except, for...

New hospital appeal rejected

By Bonny Burrows The State Government has shunned Narracan MP Gary Blackwood’s calls to fund a new West Gippsland hospital, instead reiterating plans to upgrade...

Simple steps away from crime

By Bonny Burrows Cardinia police officers have encouraged residents to be proactive rather than reactive to crime. Police told residents at the Cardinia Neighbourhood Watch crime...

Keeping youth off booze

By Bonny Burrows Cardinia Shire Council has received $10,000 to launch a program aimed at reducing drug and alcohol use by young people. The shire is...

Meeting through time

Essendon Football Club Champion Jobe Watson has just announced his retirement from football at the end of this season. Bunyip resident ROMAN KULKEWYCZ recalls...

Keeping the faith

“As a goalkeeper your mistakes can really cost you - you can’t really make a mistake and get away with it. Nobody seems to...

Helping youth find their place

By Bonny Burrows Cardinia Shire’s youngest councillor has continued his quest to engage youth within the community. Hot on the heels of applications for his Youth...

Smooth transition for kinders

A partnership between a local early learning centre and a school is easing the transition into primary education. St Patrick’s Primary School and Casey Childcare...

Minister opens new ambulance station

By Bonny Burrows After a long wait, Pakenham paramedics have finally moved into their new $1.1 million state-of-the-art station. The new facility, seven years in the...

Buyers quiet in a cheaper market

There were approximately 190 export and 120 young cattle penned at Pakenham’s Victorian Livestock Exchange representing a decrease of 80 head week-on-week. The usual...

Crafts raise cash for CFA

Visitors will be able to browse local creations of patchwork, quilting and associate handcrafts in picturesque Gembrook on 2 September. Gembrook’s fourth Everything Patchwork...

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Blackburn spares Berwick’s blushes

Poor kicking for goal spared Berwick from a significant margin of defeat against Blackburn at home on Saturday afternoon in the Eastern Football Netball...