News
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They’re a happy lot
IT WAS all smiles this month when members from the City of Casey took to the streets with a camera to film the community doing…
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Mum’s cry for help
By BRIDGET SCOTT A HEARTBROKEN Cranbourne mother has pleaded for better training for carers who look after severely disabled children, after her son choked to…
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Due place for crime victims
By BRIDGET SCOTT A CITY of Casey resident has asked for the government to back an initiative which she developed in 2004 that is designed…
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Kaplon comes out
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD CASEY councillor Rafal Kaplon has come out as gay after his fellow Four Oaks ward councillor Rosalie Crestani attempted to raise a…
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Invitation to feel valued
By CASEY NEILL A CHANCE chat in a Berwick chicken shop led Chisholm CEO Maria Peters into TAFE. She told last week’s South East Business…
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Hotel danger site
By BRIDGET SCOTT RESIDENTS of a quiet beachside suburb have called for action to be taken to clean up a dangerous vandalised hotel. Members of…
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Incomparable Confucius classroom
By BRIDGET SCOTT AN AWARD winning school in Cranbourne held a ceremony to recommit to an agreement called the Confucius classroom. Alkira College, which was…
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Driver pleads guilty to train crash
A TRUCK driver last week pleaded guilty to five charges over a fatal Dandenong South train crash. Melville Bollen, 72, from Narre Warren North was…
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Born survivors
MONDAY 17 November was World Prematurity Day and the National Premmie Foundation was again participating in a campaign to raise awareness of preterm birth. Joyce…
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Liberal ’bias’ slammed
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD CASEY councillor Wayne Smith has blamed the council’s Liberal bias for his resignation as its advocacy spokesperson. He was set to relinquish…
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Hope for the man with a plan
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD TWO years into a three-year program and Caroline Bell sees more than a little hope. The manager of community safety at the…
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Journey through conflict
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD MARAMA Kufi knows the toll that inevitably comes with conflict. The 46-year-old Ethiopian refugee looks away as he recounts the civil war…