News
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Nine teachers affected by chlorine leak
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH WHAT looked like a harmless bottle of soft drink dumped on school grounds has left nine teachers at Tooradin Primary School with…
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Eight years on ‘ice’
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH WHEN Jarryd Bardsley looked back on his eight-year drug addiction, he admitted sitting alone on his bedroom floor smoking ice as one…
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Kids avoid chlorine explosion
TOORADIN Primary School students have narrowly missed an explosion at the school on their first day back from holidays. A chlorine bottle exploded on the…
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Cash-hungry burglars on the go
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH A SERIES of burglaries have left damaged property across Lynbrook and Cranbourne West as burglars jemmied open windows and doors. Three restaurants…
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Trailer boat adrift
POLICE are appealing to the public to help track down a stolen boat. The boat was stolen from the Springhill area in Cranbourne in late…
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Our dogs have their day
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH PEARCEDALE’S Jason Thompson is one of the country’s leading greyhound trainers and says he can’t see much movement for the local industry,…
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Greyhound sector bracing for influx from NSW racing ban
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH CRANBOURNE’S greyhound racing industry is set to be flooded with jilted trainers and dogs as the nation takes in the New South…
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Casey wants nothing to go to waste
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH THE CITY of Casey wants its ratepayers to compost and its offering a new rebate program to entice residents to buy bins,…
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Truck rolls at roundabout
A CEMENT truck has rolled on its side at a Clyde roundabout. The cement truck rolled just before noon in Thursday 7 July at the…
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Lift in care needed
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH WHEN a life is at risk, a hospital seems the safest place to be. But that wasn’t the case for Cranbourne disabled…
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Multi-car crash at Clyde
A MAN in his fifties was airlifted to The Alfred after he was involved in a multi-car crash in Clyde. The man was trapped by…
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Poverty is no bonus
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH SHE’S the woman who helps Cranbourne’s most vulnerable, but it’s the vulnerability of one of her most utilised services that could see…