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Students go for defence
IN A way, Doveton College went way out-of-bounds for three days this month. The college’s students and early-learning pupils were uprooted from their campus, instead…
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Pell’s claims rejected
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS FOUR ex-Catholic Education Office employees have denied Cardinal George Pell’s claims that he had been deceived over former paedophile priest Peter Searson’s…
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State aims to stamp out ‘pill shopping’ deaths
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THE State Government has announced a real-time prescription monitoring system, weeks after the State Coroner called for its urgent implementation. The system…
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Child sex education debate hots up
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A GROUP advocating for an end to family violence has attacked a Casey councillor’s criticisms of a respectful-relationships schools program. Our Watch chief…
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Suspended driver blew it
AN ENDEAVOUR Hills suspended P-plater caught drink-driving has had his car impounded in a police long weekend crackdown. Three probationary drivers were caught as part…
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Take 10
With Alexandra Bunten, Dandenong Rangers basketballer What is something people don’t know about you? I played the flute for eight years and sang in the…
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Feeling the Casey love
AS THE slogans go, New Yorkers ‘Love NY’ as do the burghers of Frankston love their town. Now add to the list City of Casey…
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Pipes sound birthday greeting
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS WITH a fanfare of bagpipes and a monumental sponge cake, Hallam Community Learning Centre rang in 30 years in high spirits on…
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High-tech toilets bring relief
BY JARROD McALEESE NEW toilet facilities have been installed at Hallam Station – the first to be built at an unstaffed metropolitan Melbourne train station.…
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Reserve fire ‘deliberate’
POLICE are investigating what’s believed to be a deliberately lit fire which burned a quarter of a hectare of nature reserve in Hallam. The grass…
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Over the limit
POLICE allege they caught an Endeavour Hills driver travelling at almost twice the 50km/h speed limit in Doveton. Casey Highway Patrol members intercepted a car…
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New town square is shaping up
WORK is underway on creating a new Endeavour Hills town square. Casey mayor Sam Aziz and councillors Rosalie Crestani, Rafal Kaplon and Damien Rosario visited…