More trains at weekend
WEEKEND trains are set to become more frequent, Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder announced last week.
Trains will arrive every 10 minutes, instead of 20...
Long-term library plan for Springvale
GREATER Dandenong Council's Springvale offices, which will be vacated for the central Dandenong civic centre project, would become home to a state-of-the-art library,...
Dandenong big-screen funding sought
GREATER Dandenong Council is seeking external funding for a $1.5 million video screen as part of its 'Federation Square'-style civic centre in Dandenong.
Engineering services...
Showing the way to Dandenong’s Little India
Long-awaited signage pointing to the Little India precinct in central Dandenong will be installed in the next six weeks.
VicRoads acting regional director Graeme Clarke...
Teacher gets a laugh from nagging rellies
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
FOR most of the year, teacher Fiona Chau doesn't play for laughs.
But during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival she will drop her...
Springvale Primary School tradition a badge of pride
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
TRADITION is important to one of Springvale Primary School's oldest former pupils Bill Warner.
The 86-year-old former mayor is one of the organisers...
Jamie heading for a healthy involvement
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
MANY a good friendship has been forged over food so Trisha Keilty hopes healthy ties can form between her Avocare Community Distribution...
Noble Park family homeless after fire
A NOBLE Park family of six is homeless after their Percy Street house was destroyed by fire last Thursday afternoon.
It took...
Marg Moments: Sweet thoughts on lolly trolley
LONG-time residents of Dandenong and district will recall many exciting incidents involving the Paydon family, their fleet of removal vans and their storage facilities...
Special Asian food influence ‘must stay’
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
SPRINGVALE'S chief Asian business association has warned that any move to dilute the retail precinct's Asian food flavour may kill the 'golden...
Get set for our ‘Fed Square’
FIRST pictures of Greater Dandenong's planned civic centre, council offices, library and plaza have revealed the council's desire for a "Federation Square of the...
$62m question: Where to now for traders?
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
BRAZILIAN waxer Angie Bottari and fellow nearby traders are making way for Dandenong's new civic centre but are struggling to find suitable...
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Hoon motorcyclist nabbed at 180km/h
A hoon on bail who allegedly kicked a police car before leading officers on a high speed chase from Dandenong South has been arrested...
