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Month-long burglary spree
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A NOBLE PARK ice addict with an intellectual disability has been jailed for 16 months over a month-long burglary binge – including…
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Marquee moment for SES
THE Greater Dandenong Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) has benefitted from AAMI’s equipment handover program. AAMI’s equipment handover program has been running since 2002 and…
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Blue steel finds heavy metal
A 53-YEAR-OLD man was fined more than $200 after driving a car overloaded with scrap metal in Dandenong North on Sunday afternoon. The blue Holden…
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Shocking loss of Millane
SO HUGE was the outpouring of grief at the tragic loss of Collingwood football star Darren Millane in October 1991 that it brought central…
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Greg kept on giving
By CASEY NEILL GREG Dickson made a lasting impression on Margaret Ladner – and on Dandenong’s most disadvantaged. Margaret worked for the council’s home care…
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Bonds are our character
Reporter PHIL MCLEOD wrote for the Journal for 20 years. He covered footballer Darren Millane’s funeral, conducted one of the last interviews with author Frank…
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Earlybird got the papers
By CASEY NEILL DELIVERING the Journal gave at least one paperboy a strong work ethic he’s carried through life. Sean Whitaker now calls Drouin home,…
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Jack and the Journal
Journal columnist Jack Johnson is the author of ’When the clock strikes’, a memoir of growing up in Dandenong in the 1930s. To celebrate the…
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Move from gaslight was electric
FOR many years some of the streets in Dandenong were lit by 33 gas lamps, which had to be lit and extinguished by hand. This…
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Real social media
FOR Joy Kent the weekly publication of the Dandenong Journal was a social event. As a young secretary at stock agent Dan Godfey and Co.…
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Neighbours get famous
TWO neighbouring central Dandenong laneways pay tribute to local businesses past. The Journal office was once a weatherboard building at 1 Scott Street, Dandenong, where…
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Habit of a lifetime
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH THE Dandenong Journal might not be their local newspaper anymore, but Judith and Keith Bramich make sure they are kept in the…
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