God was with us
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A car torn in two by a train at a Noble Park level crossing, its driver Michael Bojic, 23, emerged relatively unscathed...
Life in the pages
By NARELLE COULTER
GREATER Dandenong Citizen of the Year Bev Douglas admits she feels “hard done by" if her weekly Journal doesn’t arrive in her...
Gwen followed the paper trail
Journal reporter RUSSELL BENNETT talks to his grandmother, Gwen Jarvis (widow of former mayor Maurie Jarvis, and one of the City of Greater Dandenong’s...
Family woven into history
By CASEY NEILL
THE Tharle family and the Journal have been intertwined throughout their time in Dandenong.
Both arrived 150 years ago and Dandenong and District...
Milestones still make good reading
By NARELLE COULTER
MANY of the major milestone’s in Joyce Polman’s life have been recorded in the pages of the Dandenong Journal.
A photograph of Joyce...
Life set on paper path
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
IF SHE hadn’t worked at the Dandenong Journal, Susan Riley reckons her life would have taken a vastly different path.
The Deputy Lord...
Facing a human tide
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
THERE have been times when the waves of new arrivals drove Peter Jarrett crazy.
At flood’s peak, hundreds in a month have poured...
Love boat couple
By NARELLE COULTER
IT is hard to imagine 1000 free-range chickens roaming in Noble Park, but that is Mary Bertolini’s earliest memory of the suburb...
Furore over ‘Pommie bludgers’
‘POMMIE BLUDGERS’ screamed the Journal’s front page headline on 21 March 1974.
The furore that followed still bemuses then editor John Woods.
“British migrants,” read the...
Journal a shining light
By FORMER EDITOR, JOHN WOODS
I WAS privileged to be editor of The (Dandenong) Journal for more than 30 years, during a time in which...
Images through the ages and into the future
By ROB CAREW
NEWSPAPER photographs have been with us for more than 100 years.
Until then, only line block images had been used to illustrate...
Now and then and still here
By FORMER EDITOR PETER SIMCOCK
Ten years ago when I wrote some words for the Journal’s 140th anniversary I commented that it was easy to...
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Special bond shared for 100th milestone
Susanna Lacko’s 100th birthday was particularly poignant, franked by a special bond.
Ms Lasko shares the same birthday as her 58-year-old grandson Edward, and they...
