Fest of family sports
SPORTS Fest is for anyone who plays sport, is keen to get active, or is looking for a fun family activity.
The all-ages, all-abilities festival...
Grant evaporates
CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
WHAT one federal government giveth, another taketh away.
The Serbian Sports Centre had all but spent a $150,000 federal grant promised last year to...
Author inspires women
KEYSBOROUGH students celebrated International Women’s Day with an inspiring presentation from author Anna Barnes.
Female students in Years 5 to 8 from Haileybury’s Newlands campus...
Watch word
By CASEY NEILL
DAWN Vernon is passionate about her community, seeing it thrive and ensuring its safety.
The Greater Dandenong Neighbourhood Watch president has lived in...
Three years jail for pursuits
By CASEY NEILL
YOU can run from police, but you can’t hide.
This was the warning from Greater Dandenong Highway Patrol Senior Sergeant Scott Roberts after...
Brazen thief turfs driver
A THIEF has stolen a car while its owner was stopped at traffic lights in Dandenong.
The Carnegie driver, 25, was at the intersection of...
Study club celebrations
MORE than 150 Dandenong U3A members and guests celebrated the club’s 20th birthday at a lunch last week.
They dined at Waltzing Matilda to kick...
Rail boost eases crush
GREATER Dandenong train passengers should have more room to move in coming years.
The State Government last Friday announced a $2-2.5 billion rail project to...
’Azum’ comes clean
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
A GRAFFITI vandal convicted for tagging a railway station car park and an early learning centre has been told he wouldn’t last...
Dawn robbery at knifepoint
A MAN was robbed at knifepoint in a dawn attack in Dandenong on 3 February.
Police last week released an image of a man they...
Ice dad escapes jail
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
A FORMERLY “law-abiding” father in the midst of an ‘ice’ addiction lost his 25-year marriage, his job, assaulted his daughter and became...
A childhood fascination with trains still lingers
My fascination with trains began when I was a child when my late father Rowland Archer of 'Ryecroft’ Lyndhurst took me in his spring...