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New nets for Parkfield
The State Government has stumped up for Parkfield Cricket Club’s three new synthetic nets. South Eastern Metropolitan MP Lee Tarlamis announced $100,000 for the new…
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Garden to grow friends
Seeds of self-sufficiency are set to be sown for refugee families struggling to put food on the table. Friends of Refugees is transforming its stark…
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Covid aid extends to October
Greater Dandenong’s massive Covid food-relief program has been extended at least six months. The council’s material aid program had distributed more than 730,000 kilograms of…
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Slug inquiry re-opened
Health department and City of Greater Dandenong officials are expected to front a re-opened state parliamentary inquiry into the ‘slug gate’ affair. The new hearings…
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Honey trap scam
Marriage turned bitter for a 74-year-old Noble Park man, who says he fell prey to a partner visa scam based in a Springvale cafe. As…
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Visa fight turns critical
An illegal immigrant has been jailed after stabbing a man several times in a dispute over tourist visas at a Springvale boarding house. Yong Choy…
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Advanced waste ‘solution’ still unknown
Greater Dandenong Council is on board with a multi-council push to find a solution beyond burying landfill at the fast-expiring Hampton Park tip. The council…
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Sleeze targets schoolgirls in Noble Park
An unknown man is wanted over lewd behaviour towards school-girls in Noble Park last month. He allegedly approached a 16-year-old on Heatherton Road, near Corrigan…
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Safety funds for Hemmings St
A State-funded community safety boost has been announced for the troubled Hemmings Street precinct in Dandenong West. Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams said $219,000 would be…
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Keysy roadhouse ‘all clear’
A Greater Dandenong Council internal review has given the all-clear to a controversial 116-townhouse estate being built just a metre from a busy road corner…
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Five charged with Ranges car thefts
Two Dandenong men, a Clayton man, a Pakenham girl and an Officer woman have been charged with alleged car thefts in the storm-afflicted disaster zone…
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Design prizes for Springvale hub
Springvale Community Hub’s sweeping curves and landscape has been dually awarded at the 2021 Victorian Architectural Awards. At the event on 18 June, the project…