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Let it snow and let it show
SNOW sprinkled the streets of Springvale on Sunday. The second annual Springvale Snow Fest took over the suburb’s centre for the afternoon and featured man-made…
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Textiles shape up
A MONTH-LONG celebration of all things textiles is on its way to Greater Dandenong. Cultural Threads will include textile-based activities for people of all ages…
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Clubbed by tree
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A TREE that has long enriched the backdrop of Dandenong’s oldest continuous sports club may have sown that club’s destruction. Dandenong City…
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Good burgers of slow love
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS SOME people initially mistake JB Charcoal Grill for a famous mass-produced burger chain but they couldn’t be further from the truth. The…
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Club kept bowling along
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS DANDENONG City Bowling Club and its green was meant to last little more than a season – so said a less-than-prescient Journal…
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Bullock has some pull
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG’S Marc Landman still remembers his first day at Bullock Victoria, 20 years ago. “I was packing gutter brackets. I was a…
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Factor for the future
By BRIDGET COOK JAYMIE Deboucherville hopes his future is in music, whether it be busking on the streets and gigging in pubs or playing his…
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Paintball stain fear
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS NEIGHBOURS fear proposed paintball fields in Bangholme will be a blot on their rural green-wedge serenity. Resident Bruce Lindsay, whose property takes…
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Lorraine is in champion health
LORRAINE Lord isn’t afraid to tell people to shape up and take care of themselves. Lorraine is a City of Greater Dandenong health champion, and…
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Shoes have been ‘walking’
By CASEY NEILL LOCK up your … shoes? It’s not something you hear every day, but a Springvale South man is warning people to do…
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You can’t park here
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A LACK of parking is discouraging private companies from relocating to central Dandenong, says Greater Dandenong councillor Matthew Kirwan. “We are doing…
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V/Line man changes track
AFTER 42 years, Darryl Rosewall is finally making tracks. The Dandenong resident this week retired from V/Line before catching the train home to Yarraman station.…