Asian experience as crowds flock in
THOUSANDS of people descended on the centre of Springvale on Sunday to welcome in the Year of the Goat.
Lunar New Year festivities kicked off...
Hooning increases dangers for all road users
ROAD policing in the Greater Dandenong Local Government Area presents police with a number of challenges.
The primary focus of road policing is to reduce...
Crimes of desperation
By CASEY NEILL
CUTS to emergency relief budgets will cause a crime spike in Greater Dandenong, a leading charity worker fears.
Dandenong Benevolent Society...
Police probe PSO capsicum incident
VICTORIA Police is investigating allegations that a PSO unjustly and repeatedly sprayed two teenage boys with capsicum foam at Springvale Railway Station.
Last week the...
New year’s a go for the Goat
THOUSANDS welcomed in the Year of the Goat at Springvale’s Lunar Festival on Sunday, under clear skies and with the mercury nudging 33 degrees.
Among...
Parking prayers
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
Mosque takes tough line as congregation booms...
Worshipers clogging up nearby streets with illegal parking face being named, shamed and possibly banned from...
PSO cops a spray
VICTORIA Police is investigating allegations a PSO unjustly and repeatedly sprayed two teenage boys with capsicum foam at Springvale Railway Station.
The ABC last night...
Toddler locked in hot car
By CASEY NEILL
A TODDLER was allegedly left locked in a car in Noble Park North yesterday (Tuesday), as the temperature soared above 30 degrees.
Paramedics...
Ram-raid charges
AN 18-YEAR-OLD Eumemmerring man will answer 14 charges over a series of ram-raids last Thursday.
Police allege he used a stolen car to smash into...
Senior swingers
NOT too many 87-year-olds could list fronting a band among their pastimes. Dandenong man Frank Nicholls can. He regularly takes to the stage with...
Lost for words
By CASEY NEILL
ANDREA Wyatt’s first job post-university is back where her education began.
The Keysborough 23-year-old is Chandler Park Primary School’s new speech pathologist.
“I suppose...
Hol-e heart problem, Batman
By CASEY NEILL
DEAN Carroll didn’t know he was a Heart Kid until he was all grown up.
The financial controller at Dandenong South’s JDN Monocrane...