Month-long burglary spree
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A NOBLE PARK ice addict with an intellectual disability has been jailed for 16 months over a month-long burglary binge - including...
Marquee moment for SES
THE Greater Dandenong Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) has benefitted from AAMI’s equipment handover program.
AAMI’s equipment handover program has been running since 2002 and...
Blue steel finds heavy metal
A 53-YEAR-OLD man was fined more than $200 after driving a car overloaded with scrap metal in Dandenong North on Sunday afternoon.
The blue Holden...
Shocking loss of Millane
SO HUGE was the outpouring of grief at the tragic loss of Collingwood football star Darren Millane in October 1991 that it brought central...
Greg kept on giving
By CASEY NEILL
GREG Dickson made a lasting impression on Margaret Ladner - and on Dandenong’s most disadvantaged.
Margaret worked for the council’s home care team...
Bonds are our character
Reporter PHIL MCLEOD wrote for the Journal for 20 years. He covered footballer Darren Millane’s funeral, conducted one of the last interviews with author...
Earlybird got the papers
By CASEY NEILL
DELIVERING the Journal gave at least one paperboy a strong work ethic he’s carried through life.
Sean Whitaker now calls Drouin home, but...
Jack and the Journal
Journal columnist Jack Johnson is the author of ’When the clock strikes’, a memoir of growing up in Dandenong in the 1930s. To celebrate...
Move from gaslight was electric
FOR many years some of the streets in Dandenong were lit by 33 gas lamps, which had to be lit and extinguished by hand.
This...
Real social media
FOR Joy Kent the weekly publication of the Dandenong Journal was a social event.
As a young secretary at stock agent Dan Godfey and Co....
Neighbours get famous
TWO neighbouring central Dandenong laneways pay tribute to local businesses past.
The Journal office was once a weatherboard building at 1 Scott Street, Dandenong, where...
Habit of a lifetime
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
THE Dandenong Journal might not be their local newspaper anymore, but Judith and Keith Bramich make sure they are kept in the...
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Backyard home rejected
A plan for a double storey dwelling at the rear of an existing home has been rejected by the state’s planning tribunal.
The Victorian Civil...
