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Agriculture’s her passion
By BRIDGET COOK A CASEY teenager is one of 100 passionate agriculture students from across the country chosen to take part in a conference next…
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Hot cars ‘prove deadly’
AMBULANCE Victoria has released alarming figures of the number of children being locked in cars as part of a warning to others coming into the…
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School gets to grip with gardening
By BRIDGET COOK DEVON Meadows Primary School (DMPS) and Berwick TEC teamed up this year on a project of mutual benefit to both schools. A…
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Touched by little Talin
By BRIDGET COOK SINCE Melissa Kolbeck decided to walk from Melbourne to Sydney in memory of a little boy she never met, she has been…
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Crossing plan
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A NOTORIOUSLY congested railway crossing in Lyndhurst will be removed if Labor gains office in next year’s state election. The Opposition’s road…
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Service station in the pipeline
THE council is one step closer to granting a permit for a 24-hour service station and adjoining restaurant in Tooradin. At a planning meeting last…
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Beefing up jobs
By BRIDGET COOK A CRANBOURNE facility will be able to rise from the ashes to expand its business and create 110 new jobs thanks to…
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Green fingers, green walls
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A GROUP of Hampton Park primary school students had nature at their fingertips last week. As part of equipment company STIHL’s My…
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Good rap goes with gift
HALLAM business iBare Giftware added some celebrity status to its sales team last week for a good cause. The direct selling business had Jo Stanley…
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Socially Speaking
In relation to Casey Fields Firms as Favourite, Star Community, Berwick, 8 November: Karen: Casey Fields for a suburb name is a joke. Everyone I’ve…
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Confront the danger
Former US President Richard Nixon once declared: “One should always negotiate as from a position of strength.” He was right, when we consider the recent…
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Orangutans in danger
During our school camp recently, we went to the Melbourne Zoo and learnt about the terrible times the orangutans are going through at the moment.…