Business is blooming
A KEYSBOROUGH business is set to bring joy to mums around Australia this Mother’s Day.
Staff at wholesale commercial nursery Karinga on Keys Road have...
Well of wishes
By CASEY NEILL
HAFTU Strintzos used to go looking for gold to buy school supplies.
Now the Haileybury Keysborough student and his classmates are raising money...
Back to school in Dandy
DANDENONG Primary School has educated thousands of pupils since it opened its doors 140 years ago.
Many former students returned to the Foster Street school...
Life on $2 a day
By CASEY NEILL
SPRINGVALE’S May Dang is doing her bit to change the way people think about poverty.
She’ll take part in Live Below the Line,...
Cash for the crusade
By CASEY NEILL
CORNISH College has raised $610 to help a young man on an 18,000-kilometre crusade.
Students and teachers at the Bangholme school dressed in...
Good turn in cancer fight
By CASEY NEILL
ONE person in Australia will die from bowel cancer every two hours.
And Dandenong Rotary is doing its bit to reduce this shocking...
Cash crop catch
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A SPRINGVALE man has been charged over a $1 million cannabis crop discovered in a factory on the Princes Highway last week.
Police...
Surviving the cut
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A DANDENONG-based Medicare Local’s success should insulate the branch from speculated federal cuts, its chairman says.
Dr Nicholas Demediuk, who chairs South Eastern...
Truckin’ trouble
HEAVY vehicles are in the sights of Greater Dandenong Highway Patrol.
Senior Sergeant Scott Roberts said his team was running Operation Austrans throughout May.
He said...
No bunnies for Easter
By CASEY NEILL
EASTER brought some unwanted attention to hundreds of bunnies in Keysborough.
Melbourne Water conducted rabbit baiting in a drain beside 402 Corrigan Road...
Manufacturing and working smarter
By CASEY NEILL
COLLABORATION and tapping into universities were the key topics at a manufacturing forum in Dandenong last week.
About 60 people attended the event...
’Keep the rage’
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MAN ordered by a court to create a road-safety campaign after nearly killing himself and four passengers in a drink-driving crash...