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Textiles shape up
A MONTH-LONG celebration of all things textiles is on its way to Greater Dandenong. Cultural Threads will include textile-based activities for people of all ages…
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Clubbed by tree
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A TREE that has long enriched the backdrop of Dandenong’s oldest continuous sports club may have sown that club’s destruction. Dandenong City…
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Good burgers of slow love
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS SOME people initially mistake JB Charcoal Grill for a famous mass-produced burger chain but they couldn’t be further from the truth. The…
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Club kept bowling along
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS DANDENONG City Bowling Club and its green was meant to last little more than a season – so said a less-than-prescient Journal…
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Bullock has some pull
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG’S Marc Landman still remembers his first day at Bullock Victoria, 20 years ago. “I was packing gutter brackets. I was a…
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Factor for the future
By BRIDGET COOK JAYMIE Deboucherville hopes his future is in music, whether it be busking on the streets and gigging in pubs or playing his…
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Paintball stain fear
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS NEIGHBOURS fear proposed paintball fields in Bangholme will be a blot on their rural green-wedge serenity. Resident Bruce Lindsay, whose property takes…
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Lorraine is in champion health
LORRAINE Lord isn’t afraid to tell people to shape up and take care of themselves. Lorraine is a City of Greater Dandenong health champion, and…
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Shoes have been ‘walking’
By CASEY NEILL LOCK up your … shoes? It’s not something you hear every day, but a Springvale South man is warning people to do…
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You can’t park here
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A LACK of parking is discouraging private companies from relocating to central Dandenong, says Greater Dandenong councillor Matthew Kirwan. “We are doing…
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V/Line man changes track
AFTER 42 years, Darryl Rosewall is finally making tracks. The Dandenong resident this week retired from V/Line before catching the train home to Yarraman station.…
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MP in for the long run
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS LONG-distance running has become a recently discovered pleasure – if you can call it that – for Lyndhurst MP Martin Pakula. The…