Tag: News
Hay, it looks like arson
By Alana Mitchelson
POLICE suspect arson is to blame for haystacks that went up in flames in Nar Nar Goon North on Sunday night.
It is...
Community lunch survives
By Alana Mitchelson
THE Cardinia Community Christmas lunch will make a comeback this year after all, following initial fears that the annual event could have...
Parked cars targeted
By Alana Mitchelson
A STRING of parked cars were targeted in central Pakenham overnight on Saturday.
A car’s number plates were removed in Thwaites Road, while...
School’s $1.2m grant
By Alana Mitchelson
OFFICER’S Gum Scrub Creek Primary School has received a $1.2 million capital grant to create an integrated children’s centre as part of...
Rotary’s wheelchair gifts changes lives
By Alana Mitchelson
ROTARY clubs of Pakenham and Berwick gave two East Timorese with physical disabilities the gift of independence this Christmas.
Teenager Cecilia Casmira was...
Families walk for lives lost
By Alana Mitchelson
THE FAMILIES and friends of loved ones lost on Cardinia Shire roads banded together to support each other through a tribute walk...
Love pug finds a way
By Victoria Stone-Meadows
THE love that people have for their pets was on show this New Year’s Eve in Pakenham when a community rallied together...
Sweet-toothed burglars charged
By Alana Mitchelson
TWO male teenagers have been charged following an alleged burglary at a Drouin milk bar on Christmas Eve.
Baw Baw Crime Investigation Unit...
More car parks scheduled for station
By Alana Mitchelson
OFFICER train station will gain more than 100 additional car parking to ease the squeeze for commuters by October.
Pakenham line passengers will...
Wife, son bashed
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A MAGISTRATE has admonished a Pakenham man accused of repeatedly bashing his then-pregnant partner and assaulting their eight-week-old son.
Dandenong Magistrates’ Court judge...
Chaos on Monash
By Alana Mitchelson
COMMUTERS headed home outbound on the Monash Freeway have been advised to use the Princes Highway, after a collision between a truck...
Road troubles bypassed early
By Victoria Stone-Meadows
TRAFFIC on the Princes Highway is set to ease with VicRoads scheduled to complete resurfacing works on the Pakenham Bypass...