News
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Career pathways on show
By BRIDGET COOK STUDENTS across the region got to try out more than 40 different career options at the South East Try a Trade and…
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Grants give high-tech edge
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THREE Dandenong businesses have been awarded with technology grants to boost their competitiveness. Popina has been given $250,000, HM Engines, $61,000 and…
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Bin arsonists on a roll
Police are appealing for witnesses to a series of bin fires in Noble Park on Monday 27 May, between 1am and 3am. The four fires…
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Taxi reforms hailed
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD The recently announced Victorian taxi reforms will address zoning issues in Greater Dandenong. The reforms, the biggest in the Victorian taxi industry’s…
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Assaults rise as car crime falls
Dandenong has seen an increase in assaults but a decrease in the number of stolen cars. The most recent Victoria Police statistcs show that there…
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Assault charges laid
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A Dandenong North man has been arrested and charged after assaulting elderly males with a knife outside Dandenong High School last Friday…
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Stolen copper found in vehicle check
A Frankston police divisional van conducting a vehicle check on a car towing a trailer on Frankston-Dandenong Road, Frankston, near Overton Road last Wednesday found…
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Steam engine debate fuels memories
By MARG STORK A RECENT query from Barbara Linton on the wooden train turntable at the Dandenong railway station, where steam locomotives were turned around…
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EPA allows company not to report emissions
A DANDENONG South insulation manufacturer has failed to report its particle emissions on its most recent annual performance statement. On its 2011-12 APS submitted to…
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Controversial mound to be demolished
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS AN independent audit has contradicted Greater Dandenong Council’s claim that a footpath climbing an artificial mound in Noble Park meets disability access…
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Community groups 'miss out' as Dandenong revitalised
SOME of Dandenong’s key community groups are being cramped in “antiquated” and “inadequate” buildings, a Greater Dandenong councillor says. Cr Matthew Kirwan said new lodgings…
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Letters to the Editor, Dandenong Journal
We must learn to embrace our waste Far too many usable items are being placed out for hard rubbish. If residents had an address of…