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NOMINATIONS are now open for next year’s Greater Dandenong Australia Day Awards.
The awards recognise the exceptional contribution people in the community make to everyday...
Drug debt led to break-ins
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MAN accused of “prolifically” stealing and breaking into cars in secure underground car parks in Dandenong has been refused bail.
Julio Martins...
Rapt about raptor
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
THE Dandy Pig has a new friend in town.
Keeping watch over the city from the balcony of the Civic Centre the inflatable...
Gateway shows the way
By CASEY NEILL
GATEWAY Industries employee Mark Hutton endured bullying and verbal abuse at work every day for more than two years.
The Dandenong-based non-profit employs...
75,000 jobs on the way
UNEMPLOYMENT rates are climbing but there’s good news for young people.
South East Local Learning and Employment Network (SELLEN) CEO Andrew Simmons told a Migrant...
Police dogs move in to end siege
A NINE-hour siege involving a man wanted over outstanding warrants at a Dandenong South house ended when police stormed the house.
Police had been outside...
Unexplained gunshot wound
UPDATE 3.20pm
A MAN found with a gunshot wound in his leg in Dandenong this morning has been identified as from Narre Warren South.
He underwent...
The ‘missing’ bypass
By CASEY NEILL
THE Dandenong Bypass is missing from online maps and holding back Keysborough South.
That’s according to Keysborough South Action Group, which called on...
Dandy siege closes streets
By CASEY NEILL
POLICE are negotiating with a wanted man in Dandenong and have closed two streets.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the 30-year-old was wanted...
This yoke is no joke
By CASEY NEILL
ST MARY’S Primary students put their stamina to the test for a good cause.
The Dandenong school raised more than $1800 for a...
Boy hit by car
AN 11-YEAR-OLD is believed to be in a stable condition after he was hit by a car outside a Dandenong North apartment over the...
Spirit of remembrance
By CASEY NEILL
FOR almost 80 years, Private James ‘Jimmy’ Melbourne has languished in an unmarked grave at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
The World War I veteran...