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Rollout connections kick off
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD CONSTRUCTION to bring the National Broadband Network (NBN) to more than 2000 extra homes in Greater Dandenong has started. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus…
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Career pathways on show
By BRIDGET COOK STUDENTS across the region got to try out more than 40 different career options at the South East Try a Trade and…
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Grants give high-tech edge
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THREE Dandenong businesses have been awarded with technology grants to boost their competitiveness. Popina has been given $250,000, HM Engines, $61,000 and…
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Bin arsonists on a roll
Police are appealing for witnesses to a series of bin fires in Noble Park on Monday 27 May, between 1am and 3am. The four fires…
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Taxi reforms hailed
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD The recently announced Victorian taxi reforms will address zoning issues in Greater Dandenong. The reforms, the biggest in the Victorian taxi industry’s…
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Assaults rise as car crime falls
Dandenong has seen an increase in assaults but a decrease in the number of stolen cars. The most recent Victoria Police statistcs show that there…
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Assault charges laid
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A Dandenong North man has been arrested and charged after assaulting elderly males with a knife outside Dandenong High School last Friday…
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Stolen copper found in vehicle check
A Frankston police divisional van conducting a vehicle check on a car towing a trailer on Frankston-Dandenong Road, Frankston, near Overton Road last Wednesday found…
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Steam engine debate fuels memories
By MARG STORK A RECENT query from Barbara Linton on the wooden train turntable at the Dandenong railway station, where steam locomotives were turned around…
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EPA allows company not to report emissions
A DANDENONG South insulation manufacturer has failed to report its particle emissions on its most recent annual performance statement. On its 2011-12 APS submitted to…
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Controversial mound to be demolished
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS AN independent audit has contradicted Greater Dandenong Council’s claim that a footpath climbing an artificial mound in Noble Park meets disability access…
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Community groups 'miss out' as Dandenong revitalised
SOME of Dandenong’s key community groups are being cramped in “antiquated” and “inadequate” buildings, a Greater Dandenong councillor says. Cr Matthew Kirwan said new lodgings…
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