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Cash spent on grave matters
By ALANA MITCHELSON
BERWICK and Harkaway cemeteries have received $20,000 of state funding to help maintain and improve their facilities.
With about $40,000 required for current...
Stan’s Yakkerboo-mobile
By GARRY HOWE
STAN Hamilton can’t remember missing a Yakkerboo Parade in the past 40 years.
He reckons he has driven in most of them -...
Kuvira brings smiles across the ages
By ALANA MITCHELSON
THE COOPERS have welcomed their fifth generation female to the family.
The birth of Vanessa Cooper’s new baby girl Kuvira Graham has meant...
Strike up the band
By ALANA MITCHELSON
THE Haileybury Pipes and Drums band have regained their title after defeating their Scotch College rivals at the state championships.
Haileybury College clinched...
Rising up to stop violence
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
CARDINIA Shire is to launch its biggest ever campaign to combat domestic violence.
So far 70 community leaders have joined to devise and...
Charges for machete bandit
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
POLICE have charged the alleged machete-wielding robber accused of traumatising staff in a violent cash grab at an Upper Beaconsfield supermarket.
The...
Principal stunned by drug find
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A BERWICK principal has said he is “absolutely shocked” after one of his year eight students was caught on camera with cannabis...
Driver on the run after traffic chaos
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
MOTORISTS were forced to swerve to safety as a crazed driver sped along the wrong side of the road in Officer.
And...
Canberra sure road deal will be done
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
THE Federal Government has said it is sure that the Victorian Government will agree to the Prime Minister’s newly announced $1 billion...
Video game gun sparks alert
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
POLICE cars flooded Beaconsfield, barring incoming traffic from entering the town as they cautiously zoned in on a premises with reported firearm...
Get on board for Billy’s future
By VICTORIA STONE MEADOWS and ANEEKA SIMONIS
PUFFING Billy’s future is in the hands of the community.
Emerald Tourist Railway Board is seeking feedback from the...
Tobruk ’Rat’ made it
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
“TOBRUK was a place where you might be here tomorrow, the next day maybe not. That was the feeling given. If you...