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Filling a winter need
Dandenong Community Advisory Bureau volunteer Charmaine and Dandenong Lions Club member Sue stock up the bureau’s food cupboard for families in need. Bureau manager Jinny…
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Special leader fosters a new way of thinking
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS EMERSON School’s inspirational principal John Mooney is on a mission to “disturb” people into a new way of thinking. Mr Mooney is…
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Dandenong saleyards evoke whiff of the rural past
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS YOU can still smell the pastoral history of Dandenong’s former livestock saleyards. There’s a farmyard whiff that hovers among the spectator stalls,…
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Pet fund brings relief from vet bills
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS and DAVID SCHOUT WHAT DO YOU THINK? SCROLL TO BELOW THIS STORY TO POST A COMMENT. HAVING nine lives can prove expensive,…
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Grant a boon for special needs children
Children with special needs across Greater Dandenong will benefit from a $37 million funding boost from the state and federal governments. The one-off grant will…
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It’s all happening around the Green Table
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A FORMER farmhouse in Dandenong will be a hive of live music over the next month. The Green Table, a little-known social…
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Salvos’ Doveton Food Bank warehouse to close
By Cameron Lucadou-Wells WHAT DO YOU THINK? SCROLL TO BELOW THIS STORY TO POST A COMMENT. IN the midst of its annual Red Shield Appeal,…
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Greater Dandenong Latest Sport Results
SOUTHERN FOOTBALL LEAGUE: Round 6: Division 1: Highett 3.4, 5.12, 5.13, 13.17 (95) d Mordialloc 0.5, 2.5, 5.6, 6.6 (42) Goals: Highett: J Verlin 4,…
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DDCA: Ridges appoints captain-coach
Buckley Ridges Cricket Club has appointed former New Zealand first class cricketer Marc Calkin as captain-coach for next season. The 32-year-old former Wellington and Central…
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DDCA: Vale Reg Pickering
Former Dandenong District Cricket Association executive member and recorder Reg Pickering died last week of a heart attack. Pickering, 60, was a 28-year member of…
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Aussie teen ICC World Cup selection
Dandenong Panthers fast bowler Matt Willcocks has been added to Cricket Australia’s 20-man squad for the under-19 ICC World Cup. Willcocks joins the best teenage…
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Women’s finances Dandenong workshop
Women who have been controlled financially in a violent domestic relationship are invited to a free workshop in Dandenong next month. WIRE Women’s Information will…