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Promise linked to winning election
Youth Links in Noble Park would land $600,000 for a permanent home if the ALP forms government following the Saturday 2 July election. Labor’s Bruce…
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Refugees in the welcome zone
Greater Dandenong residents are invited to celebrate the contribution refugees make to their diverse and vibrant city. Refugee Week runs from Sunday 19 to Saturday…
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Family story takes off
By CASEY NEILL The suburbs are filled with extraordinary stories just waiting to be told, Lucyna Artymiuk says. The Noble Park woman recently released a…
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Parklands set for a spruce-up
By CASEY NEILL A vacant Keysborough parkland will receive a million-dollar makeover. Greater Dandenong Council allocated $352,000 to develop the Sarah Lands site at Stanley…
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Raising homeless cash from cardboard boxes
By CASEY NEILL Bangholme students and teachers swapped their beds for cardboard boxes to raise $12,000 for homeless people. Cornish College hosted a winter sleepout…
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Working girl’s big love
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH Prostitution has taught ‘Carmen’ how to love her 130 kilogram body. “Before I became a prostitute I was very jealous of…
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Crash course on ‘kamikaze corner’
By CASEY NEILL Not even councillor Sean O’Reilly knows how to successfully navigate Dandenong’s ‘Kamikaze Corner’. At the Tuesday 14 June council meeting, he successfully…
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Robbery and traffic charges
A DANDENONG man has been charged over an alleged car-jacking in Frankston and police pursuit into Dandenong in the early hours of 15 June. The…
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LED lighting for SES
An anonymous donation has Greater Dandenong SES members jumping for joy. The crew last week received the cash to upgrade the lighting it carries on…
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Arrested after car-jacking led to pursuit
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS AN Endeavour Hills man has been arrested after an alleged car-jacking followed by a 25-minute police pursuit in Carrum Downs and Dandenong…
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Aggresion unfounded at Dandy CFA, says boss
By CASEY NEILL Dandenong Fire Brigade has flatly denied simmering tensions between paid and volunteer firefighters. On Tuesday 14 June, a volunteer from another CFA…
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Reweaving the threads of history
By CASEY NEILL A former Dandenong girls school will inspire embroidery that will hang between Heritage Hill’s famous fig trees during Cultural Threads. Artist Thea…