Wood waste nailed down
By CASEY NEILL
A DANDENONG recycler is highlighting the beauty in wood packaging waste and encouraging Australian designers to consider sustainability.
The Waste Converters and Victorian...
Toddler in fire death
By CASEY NEILL
A DANDENONG toddler died in a fire this morning, locked inside his Potter Street home.
Detective Sergeant Lionel Joseph said the three-year-old boy’s...
Dandenong unit ablaze
UPDATE:
POLICE are investigating after a three-year-old boy died in a house fire in Dandenong this morning.
The fire occurred at the Potter Street home shortly...
Woman’s death ‘suspicious’
UPDATE:
By CASEY NEILL
A NOBLE Park woman, 52, was found dead outside her home this morning (Thursday).
Her Theodore Avenue neighbours heard "screams then the silence"...
Man’s last breath cry for help
By CASEY NEILL
A NOBLE Park man called triple zero with a desperate plea for help just minutes before his death last Thursday.
Police found Alan...
Firefighters save school
By CASEY NEILL
SPRINGVALE Rise Primary School’s 101-year-old campus was nearly no more after fire broke out just days before students returned to the classroom.
The...
Amy’s vision looks to help
By CASEY NEILL
A BLIND girl in a Thai orphanage spent most of her days sitting in a corner before Amy Maidment came to her...
Working hard for dream
By CASEY NEILL
AMIR Mohammadi was 12 months old when his parents fled war-torn Afghanistan to seek safety in Iran.
Today he’s living in Dandenong, following...
School makes the grade
By CASEY NEILL
CORNISH College last week welcomed its first Year 11 students, just three years after it almost closed its classrooms for good.
St Leonards...
Rasher reunion
By CASEY NEILL
BRING home the bacon.
That’s the call from Ron Chivers, who’s urging former Dandenong Ham and Bacon employees to help document the factory’s...
March slams atrocities
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
ABOUT 70 South Sudanese Australians marched through Dandenong’s streets last Wednesday, decrying the recent outbreak of hostilities in their newly-independent homeland.
Members of...
Preps open to learning
GROWING enrolments have inspired an innovative new Prep space at Athol Road Primary School.
The Springvale school will have 72 Preppies in its classrooms this...