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30 Aug 10 |
WHEN audiences watch the AFL's most famous supporter make a globe-trotting journey in Joffa The Movie this week, they will also see an unassuming Narre Warren man follow his every step.
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30 Aug 10 |
TEN years ago, it was just a dream. Last week, world-renowned French architect Francois Tesniere opened the doors to a $24million kitchen in Altona
that will supply meals to 20 municipalities
30 Aug 10 | ELECTRONICS and software developer Successful Endeavours took top honours at the inaugural Casey Business Awards last Friday.
It was among nine local businesses that took home a share of a $13,000
30 Aug 10 |
A SUITE of new health, education and business courses will have Monash University's Berwick campus double its student population over the next seven years, the campus' new head says.
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30 Aug 10 |
SPRING is in the air and Casey garden experts are predicting a busy and beautiful growth period for the city's flora.
Flowering winter plants will recede in parks and gardens and native blo
30 Aug 10 |
Feeding time
Nigel Williamson has given a temporary nest for a squawking, orphaned raven at his Devon Meadows animal rescue shelter last week. The state government has announced a grants progra
23 Aug 10 | HORSE RACING
CRANBOURNE trainer Mick Kent has recorded his best win over jumps.
Kent's long-time trackwork jockey Gerard Gilmour rode diminutive mount The Pentagon to victory in the Gr
23 Aug 10 |
CATTLE rearers are reaping huge prices as steady rains have fattened their stock for market at Pakenham saleyard auctions.
This month, big meat exporters and local butchers were at the sale
23 Aug 10 | THE march of suburbia hasn't dulled Derry Francis' desire to preserve Cranbourne and the south-east region's heritage.
23 Aug 10 |
GEOFF Jacobs readily admits the idea of kidney dialysis and the long needles required to administer it absolutely terrified him.
"I cried for a week when they told me I needed dialysis and had
23 Aug 10 |
THE world of grinds, nollies and kick flips hit Hampton Park Primary School on Wednesday.
Children were put through their paces by qualified skateboarding teachers as part of a joint initia
23 Aug 10 |
CASEY is set to take a 'zero growth' stand on poker machines and will ask the state government to extend suburb-based caps on machine numbers to the whole municipality.
The moves are central te
23 Aug 10 |
TIME hasn't been completely kind to HG Wells' classic adventure The Time Machine, says St Peter's College music teacher Frank Carter.
Mr Carter wrote and produced a musical adaptation of the no
23 Aug 10 |
BUDDING Cranbourne musicians will have a state-of-the-art rehearsal space and recording studio at The Factory arts complex.
The state government announced the $450,000 project last week as par
23 Aug 10 | LA Trobe MP Jason Wood appears to be one of few Liberal casualties in the federal election.
23 Aug 10 |
CRANBOURNE residents have been put at risk by "reckless and irresponsible" online organisers of a fake party on Friday night, police say.
More than 6500 Facebook users indicated they would
23 Aug 10 |
THE planned planting of 2000 trees across the Casey municipality has been shelved in favour of urgent ground works at Casey Fields.
The council will now spend the $200,000 originally budgeted
23 Aug 10 |
A LANG Lang mother says her son has been caught in an education limbo – too smart for a special school but not disabled enough to qualify for an integration aide.
Helen Wise fears for he
23 Aug 10 | FOOD, WINE & HOSPITALITY AWARD
SOME of Casey's most well regarded restaurants and food outlets are finalists in the food, wine and hospitality award.
Berwick's 1884 The Courthouse boasts an in
23 Aug 10 | FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR
AN accommodation centre, a mortgage broker and a telecommunications outlet are vying for the franchise of the year award.
Quest Narre Warren, one of the finalists, off