News
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Council manager’s China bound
By CASEY NEILL GREATER Dandenong’s business manager will visit China next month ahead of a proposed business delegation trip next year. Paul Kearsley will head…
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Refugees disappointed
By CASEY NEILL GREATER Dandenong refugees say the ALP and Coalition are failing asylum seekers. Association of Hazaras in Victoria secretary Hamed Saberi said the…
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Caring candidate
WE CARE Community Service will receive $25,000 for a new van if a Coalition Government is elected on 7 September. Liberal candidate for Bruce Emanuele…
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Largehearted Lion Ken
LIONS Club of Greater Dandenong has farewelled a Lion of more than 30 years, Ken Daff. The Dandenong North resident lost his two-year cancer battle…
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Double hit-run hunt
POLICE are searching for the driver who ran down two elderly women in Keysborough on Sunday and fled the scene. The Keysborough women, aged 86…
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Harmony on the menu
By MIKE TZOUNIS MEMBERS of the Dandenong Muslim community attended the Eid-ul-Fitr dinner organised by Ahmadiyya Muslim Association (AMA) Victoria at Langwarrin on 16 August.…
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Tyler case goes to fourth hearing
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS THE trial of City of Casey chief executive officer Mike Tyler will drag into a fourth court hearing in October. Mr Tyler…
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Beanie day is bang on
DANDENONG lawyers donned blue beanies last week to support Brain Injury Week. Tim Dionyssopoulos said the national campaign was important given 1.6 million Australians suffered…
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Greater Dandenong libraries move with the times
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS IN a chronicle of the times, a Greater Dandenong councillor has proposed books should make way for more public computers at Springvale library.…
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Dandenong Market fruiterer breaks ranks on Sunday trade
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS SUNDAY trading may “break the back” of one of Dandenong Market’s most enduring fruiterers. Dominic Pompei, of Dominic’s Fruit World, has been…
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Union digs in at Springvale cemetery
By CASEY NEILL FUNERALS are not expected to be affected by stop-work action that began at Springvale Botanical Cemetery and Bunurong Memorial Park on Friday.…
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A lot on his plate
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A ‘hot potato’ awareness campaign visiting Dandenong went a little cold after an unexpected mechanical hitch last Tuesday. The Asylum Seeker Resource…