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Christmas dumpers do the dirty
DANDENONG roads are among the worst hit by festive season dumpers. VicRoads is urging people to do the right thing over the Christmas holiday period…
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Carols usher togetherness spirit
HARAMBEE Choir will sing Christmas carols in Cafe Vita at Springvale Botanical Cemetery. The performance from 1pm to 4pm on Sunday 20 December will also…
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Door opens
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS FROM the start, this scenario had failure written all over it. A woman with a serious mental illness and a passion for…
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Forging into Chinese markets
By CASEY NEILL CHINA is an increasingly attractive partner for Greater Dandenong businesses. Greater Dandenong Council led a trade delegation to its sister city Xuzhou…
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Boost to skill up former auto workers
By CASEY NEILL AN $8.4 MILLION boost to skills, training and job search support in the south-east is part of a $46.5 million State Government…
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Grants fuel success
By CASEY NEILL FROM fuel to falafel, furniture, finances and security – Greater Dandenong’s latest Business Grants Program recipients cover a lot of ground. The…
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At their service
By CASEY NEILL FIVE Dandenong High School students can pursue their studies thanks to local Nashos. For the past 10 years, the National Servicemen’s Association…
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Teacher told church scandal journalist that priest was a ‘timebomb’
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS IT COMES as a surprise to former Journal reporter Phil McLeod that his breaking story on the scandalised Holy Family parish priest…
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Law in order
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG workers have adopted a family for Christmas. Launch Housing runs the Adopt-a-Family program and pairs families in need with families in…
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Singers reach high notes of harmony
A PARADE of world-class voices will take to the stage in Harmony Square during the 67th annual Dandenong Carols by Candlelight on Friday night, 18…
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No joy for Grendas as lane renamed for depot
By CASEY NEILL GRENDA Lane’s return to central Dandenong has been halted. Greater Dandenong Council will instead suggest the name Depot Lane for the road…
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Soft target for burglars
GREATER Dandenong is the home burglary capital of the south-east, according to the RACV. RACV’s home services general manager Aaron Flavell said 2014/15 crime statistics…