News
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Farewell to Lorenzo Modica
DANDENONG has lost a prominent and respected resident with the death of Lorenzo Modica, one of the City of Greater Dandenong’s Living Treasures – an…
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Speed streets need police
By ALECIA PINNER A STRONG police presence is the best answer to hoons tearing up suburban streets, Doveton residents say. Casey council has received a petition…
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Dandenong North residents rail against hoons
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS: clucadou-wells@mmpgroup.com.au GREATER Dandenong council has rejected residents’ pleas for guard rails to protect their homes from out-of-control cars in Dandenong North because…
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The swimming pool that became a secret rubbish dump
By ALECIA PINNER: apinner@mmpgroup.com.au ENDEAVOUR Hills resident Peter Van Helmond has made an expensive and unwelcome discovery beneath his back lawn. Mr Van Helmond, who…
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Springvale woman indecently assaulted in car
A SPRINGVALE woman was “horrified” when a shirtless man jumped into her car and indecently assaulted her while she was stopped in traffic last week.…
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Dandenong South crash kills motorbike rider
By ALECIA PINNER A MAN in his 20s was killed when his motorbike collided with a truck in Dandenong South this morning. The motorcyclist was…
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Robber’s bread barrage
By CASEY NEILL POLICE need help to find a burger-joint burglar and the would-be thief who fled a bread loaf barrage. On the night of…
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Sing and sign choir
By CASEY NEILL A NEW Dandenong choir will be hitting all the right notes with audiences – even those who can’t hear a word. Wallara…
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Hunt for attacker
By CASEY NEILL A MAN dressed only in black jeans sexually assaulted a woman in her car as she stopped in traffic in Noble Park.…
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City looks to future
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE civic precinct’s multi-million dollar make-over is a step closer to being locked in – but still up to 20 years from…
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On the brink
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE councillor Loi Truong faces the sack if he doesn’t attend the next City of Greater Dandenong council meeting. The Lightwood Ward…
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Prized art from the heart
REFUGEES will bare their hearts on canvas at Dandenong’s Walker Street Gallery this month. The fourth annual Heartlands Refugee Art Prize and Exhibition includes paintings,…