News
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Pakenham wakes with a jolt
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS HUNDREDS of residents have been shaken this morning by the largest earth tremor to strike Pakenham in the past 50 years. Geoscience…
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Rider killed in early morning collision
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A MALE motorcyclist has died after colliding with a car on Stud Road, Dandenong North, early this morning. Police believe the motorcycle…
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United in heartache
By JARROD POTTER VICTORIAN PREMIER CRICKET – Round 8 (day 1) ON-FIELD rivals and team mates alike united across Victoria to honour the life of…
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Sinking feeling
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS Family feels led down by authorities after ground collapse drops woman into disused well… SINKHOLE victim Christina Beaumont and her family want…
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One home distroyed and another saved
FIRE destroyed one home and threatened another in Springvale South last week. The CFA was called to the blaze in Sharon Road about 1.10am on…
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Pizza team topped up
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS TASTE of Paradise Pizza boasts, perhaps brazenly, it has the ‘best pizza on Earth’ but as of last week it could rightfully…
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Welfare plea to shelve library demolition
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS TWO not-for-profit welfare agencies have called for Greater Dandenong Council to save the former Dandenong library in Stuart Street as a community…
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Black mark for hoons
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A PUBLIC meeting has been called over the blight of hoons carving tyre-track circlework into Dandenong North streets. Rusmir Hadzic, who lives…
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Island dining makes for a fine Fiji feast
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS IN ONE of central Dandenong’s quieter corners there are rare feasts of Fijian and Fiji-Indian cuisine. Fiji Cafe in the eastern end…
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There’s so much to do
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS BUSINESS as usual for state-election victor Labor, poised to clean-sweep the grab-bag of lower-house seats in the Greater Dandenong area. The ALP’s…
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Care colour
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS TALK about a deep-green immersion. More than 100 asylum seekers and refugees topped off a six-month sustainability course with a mini-market at…
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Parking shortage not a good look
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS FEARS of a car parking shortage in central Noble Park have intensified after the planning approval of a five-storey development at 1…