2020
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Players ease back into action
Relief was palpable as sportspeople returned to their fairways, rinks, courts and fishing spots from Wednesday 13 May. With the easing of pandemic restrictions on…
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All smiles aboard the ‘Mum Run’
Mothers have been off school grounds during Covid-19, but not forgotten at St Anthony’s Primary School. Ahead of Mother’s Day, principals and teachers on the…
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O’Donnell’s wild ride
Few understand the dizzying heights and gut-wrenching lows of sport better than Botanic Ridge wakeboarder Jake O’Donnell. The five-time Victorian state champion and current Australian…
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Sarah’s Sapphire Crown
The brilliant Black Opium finally shed her bridesmaid tag with victory in the Group 1 Sapphire Crown at Sandown Park on Thursday night. A firm…
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No support in ‘game of attrition’
In a “game of attrition”, Dandenong asylum seeker Siva has been suffering a brutal double-whammy. For eight months, he has been denied an income. He…
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Incinerator’s ‘death of a 1000 cuts’
Environment Victoria has weighed in with calls for an “urgent moratorium” on approvals for the state’s first waste-to-energy plants such as the proposal for Dandenong…
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Donut Day offers ‘dandee’ prize
National Donut Day is set to return to Dandenong Market – with the chance to win a year’s supply of Dandee Donuts. On 5 June,…
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U3A awake in ‘hibernation’
The ‘wheels are still turning’ while Dandenong U3A has gone into ‘hibernation’ during the Covid-19 virus pandemic. Normally it would be conducting free programs such…
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Driver crashes into shopfront
A driver has crashed into the front window of an empty shop in Lonsdale Street, Dandenong. The 57-year-old Cranbourne West driver is believed to have…
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Facing up to changed times
A Dandenong South manufacturer is moulding itself to markedly changed times. In just six weeks of ingenuity, Micro Plastics retooled, designed and is set to…
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Three-storey village no tall order: VCAT
A three-storey retirement village has been given the green-light in Springvale South despite the objections of Greater Dandenong Council, a resident and the Cambodian Buddhist…
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Within reach of the Crown
Black Opium has one paw on that elusive Group 1 title after a scintillating victory in her Sapphire Crown heat at Sandown Park on Thursday…
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