Below: Kyal, Nathan and student teacher Bernadette Palmer plant trees at Pakenham Consolidated School.Right: Monique and Morgan ensured their tree was well protected.Left: Dion, Nathan, Zac and Ashleigh helped water the new trees.Right: Students Nathan anSTUDENTS at Pakenham schools put their green thumbs to good use recently, planting trees as part of World Environment Day celebrations.
News photographer Mike Richards captured some of the treeplanting action.
Purchase this photo from Pic Store: 528968 The finals race has caught fire with four rounds to go after some critical results in round 10…
PAKENHAM BOWLS Following what seemed to be an extra-long Christmas break, both the Weekend and Midweek Pennant Bowls competitions resumed last week for the Pakenham Bowls Club. Back in round…
Passers-by intervened as an alleged speeding car came to grief outside the Pakenham Gazette’s office just after 4pm on Friday 9 January. Witnesses said the dark green Holden swerved sharply…
A man has been arrested and charged following an alleged assault in a Beaconsfield shopping centre carpark last November that allegedly left a good Samaritan with a fractured eye socket.…
Another stabbing in Melbourne’s southeast has left a young man fighting for his life, as knife crime continues to rise. Emergency services were called to McGregor Road in Pakenham about…
Purchase this photo from Pic Store: 275006 Pakenham Bowls Club is pushing open the doors of its wonderful facility on Anderson Street with the ambition of welcoming new bowlers and…
While the north is consumed by bushfires, communities closer to home are being forced to adapt to life under extreme fire conditions. Victoria had been under a statewide Total Fire…
Crime dominated the political agenda. Fear drove policy. Tragedy drove headlines. Amid it all, two retired gang members turned youth mentors, are proving that resilience and hope can emerge from…
Purchase this photo from Pic Store: 206998 Police are investigating an assault in Clyde North on 15 January. Officers were called to reports of a 42-year-old man who had been…
GARFIELD BOWLS Well-known local sporting identity Joe Lenders has added another feather to his cap after taking out the 2025/26 Men’s Singles Championship at the Garfield Bowling Club. Lenders took…
Cranbourne’s International discount retailer Panda Mart is facing 130 charges for electrical safety offences related to allegedly stocking dozens of dangerous lamp models and other household electrical goods, some that…
