Tag: News
Four-wheel fun
GRADE five and six students at Silvan Primary School raced their very own billy carts recently.
The students made the billy carts as part of...
Firefighters honoured
By EMMA SUN
DANDENONG Ranges firefighters were among more than 4000 CFA members to receive a National Emergency Service Medal for their service during the...
Fire danger from record crowds
By MELISSA MEEHAN
IF A FEW flower festivals affect traffic this much… what will it be like during a bushfire?
That’s the message the Olinda CFA...
Tough start to life
By EMMA SUN
IN A decade where sex before marriage was taboo, a young teenager was pregnant, scared and alone.
That teenager is Mount Evelyn’s Helen...
Poised to fell century-old trees
By RUSSELL BENNETT
CARDINIA Shire Council is holding firm on its insistence that Worrell Reserve’s iconic Monterey pines must be felled to enable the oval...
Major boost for reserve
By DANIELLE GALVIN
CHANDLER Reserve in Emerald will get a major boost.
Cardinia Shire councillors voted at a recent council meeting to appoint contractor Lasergrade to...
Price of protest
By EMMA SUN
“Tecoma is on the verge of a complete empty shopping strip; I fear for the future of the traders,” Traders Association president...
Tree hits train service
BELGRAVE train services are expected to be halted until after peak hour, after a large tree fell in Upwey, causing significant damage to overhead...
Driver hit by falling tree
By MELISSA MEEHAN
A 54-year-old Mount Evelyn man has been airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with serious injuries after a gum tree fell across...
Footy fever spreads
By REBECCA BILLS
FROM the principal down to the prep students, footy fever has hit Belgrave South Primary School hard.
Adorned in various team colours,...
Jarrah swims with giants
By REBECCA BILLS
FERNTREE Gully’s Jarrah Wright had his wish granted to swim with whale sharks by the Make-A-Wish foundation earlier this year.
Suffering from Cystic...
Finding road to safety
By EMMA SUN
SEVEN hills youths will become safer drivers after each receiving a $295 defensive driving course through the Anthony and Travis Hall Memorial...