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Eid Festival building bridges
DANDENONG Park became a multicultural marketplace on Sunday to mark two important events on the Muslim calendar. The Dandenong Eid Festival is an annual not-for-profit…
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Rubber cushions to calm hoons
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS CITY of Greater Dandenong is proposing rubber speed cushions to deter hoon drivers who have bedevilled business owners in a Keysborough industrial…
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Court sends drug swap message
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A MAN was handed a suspended jail term after pleading guilty to trading 13 Xanax tablets for methamphetamine at Dandenong railway station.…
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Happy to pay the price for smiles
GREATER Dandenong businesses have raised $7000 to make sick kids’ wishes come true. Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce held its annual Grand Final Charity Lunch…
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Show sun hope
By CASEY NEILL THE Dandenong Showgrounds could welcome more than 80,000 people through its gates on 9 and 10 November – if the weather gods…
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None of our business…
NO one at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court was surprised when a supermarket declined an offer to return a pair of shoplifted socks. They were recovered from…
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Arrest after theft on train
POLICE have arrested a Noble Park girl, 17, over a robbery on a train on 27 October. They said she and a boy approached a…
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Man injured in wood attack
A WOMAN struck a man with a large piece of wood during an attack in Noble Park on 23 October. Police said a group of…
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“Star Chamber” secrets cast shadow
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS MOST Greater Dandenong councillors have gone to ground over the issue of publicly releasing a confidential investigation report into two colleagues. Councillors…
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Plaza crime clean-up
“YOU never know when the person next to you when you’re stealing is going to be a police officer, ready to arrest you for the…
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Make a change
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS CADMIEL‘Tibby’ Duscas’s first stroke of luck is that he’s alive. The Noble Park man, 23, is also fortunate not to be in…
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Screaming legacy of near-death smash
Cadmiel ’Tibby’ Duscas was not only given a second chance at life after surviving a horrific car crash – but has been spared what was…