Carli never came home
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
IT was supposed to be a year of milestones and firsts.
Her first Mother’s Day, her daughter’s first birthday and the year...
Campus faces new future
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
IT’S becoming increasingly likely that Monash University’s Berwick campus will be transformed into a centre for innovation and entrepreneurship.
A letter written...
Pinky’s a treat
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
SHE’S got a face nobody can resist.
Or at least no one more than Pinky’s second owner, Cheryl Brown, from Beaconsfield.
Pinky...
Trouble flooding in
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
CONSTRUCTION works in Cardinia have ignited fresh flooding concerns by residents calling for additional drainage to protect their at-risk properties.
They may...
No dole for welfare cheats
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
APPARENT job seekers living off the dole in Cardinia Shire are increasingly skipping job interviews or refusing to accept reasonable work.
The government...
Train travellers delayed
A SIGNAL fault delayed services along the Gippsland line on Wednesday morning.
Metro Trains spokesperson Sammie Blacks said a track circuit fault in Caulfield caused...
Sampson’s ‘plasticity’ secret to success
By ALANA MITCHELSON
TODD Sampson is balanced upon a three-centimetre wide wire, with a 21-storey drop on either side of him. His eyes are fixed...
Students have a ball
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
WITH bellies full of fairy floss, students from Lakeside College in Pakenham had themselves a ripper time at a recent weekend function...
Swift action on child fears
By ALANA MITCHELSON
AUTHORITIES have moved swiftly to alleviate concerns that children in the toilet of a Pakenham childcare centre could be seen from the...
Council poised to remove bike tracks
CARDINIA Shire Council has begun removing 3.5km of unauthorised mountain bike tracks in Hillview Bushland Reserve, Pakenham.
Hillview Bushland Reserve is protected as a conservation...
Government voting for its own death, says MP
By ANEEKA SIMONIS AND ALANA MITCHELSON
AUSTRALIA’S record eight-week election campaign threatens the Liberal government’s chance at a second term, warned McMillan MP Russell Broadbent....
Diversity spreads the talent
By GARRY HOWE
THE ever-evolving media landscape is in good hands if the calibre of grant recipients in the 2016 Herb Thomas Memorial Trust Awards...
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Final Anzac Day service as president for Upper Beaconsfield stalwart
It was a bittersweet day for outgoing Upper Beaconsfield Returned and Services League (RSL) sub-branch president Eric Chaplin OAM on Anzac Day, with a...
