News
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School’s in for young aces
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH BEACONHILLS COLLEGE students’ dreams of playing tennis professionally have been given a boost by an educational first in the Cardinia Shire. Year…
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Up up and away
By BRIDGET SCOTT A CLYDE school which was merely a paddock of dirt a couple of years ago celebrated its first birthday last Wednesday. Rivercrest…
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Named after cultural hero
By BRIDGET SCOTT THE new multi-million dollar facility for the City of Casey had its official sod turn and naming on Monday, with around 100…
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Air crash tributes
TRIBUTES have flowed in to the News for the Casey nurse who died in the plane crash in the French Alps. Carol Friday, 68, worked…
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Playing with fire
A WHEELIE bin was set alight in a popular Pakenham park earlier this week. At 3.45am on Monday 30 March, CFA extinguished a fire set…
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Barbecue explodes
A PUBLIC barbecue in Endeavour Hills has exploded after it was set on fire in suspicious circumstances. The fire at Frog Hollow Reserve was reported…
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Shotgun discovered
A TRAFFIC controller has stumbled across a loaded sawn-off shotgun in Cranbourne last week. The road worker was directing traffic at the intersection of Station…
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Groups urged to apply
COMMUNITY groups in the City of Casey have been urged to see if they are eligible to apply for one of the three grant programs…
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Driver park hunt
THE police Dog Squad was called in to track a man who fled through Akoonah Park after evading a booze bus on the weekend. The…
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Money for the shed
THE Berwick Woodworkers Club is one of many activity groups in Casey that could share in $750,000 of State Government funding made available to build…
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Teacher gets a cash splash
TEACHER James Burnside took a well-deserved dunking at Pakenham Consolidated School’s academic festival last week. Students, who each tried their hand at dunking Mr Burnside,…
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They’re up and running
By DAVID NAGEL “THE Pakenham Racing Club’s new home at Tynong is the jewel in the crown of country racing.” Those words from Racing Victoria…