News
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Tasty town a food gem
By CASEY NEILL “MELBOURNE has an absolute jewel in Dandenong.” This was just the start of Food Safari host Maeve O’Meara’s praise for the melting…
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Donstan’s making friends
IT’S time for inspiring refugees and asylum seekers who give back to the community to take a bow, according to welfare group Friends of Refugees.…
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Hookah ban bubbles up
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS GREATER Dandenong Council is seeking to form a coalition with medical bodies and other councils to ban indoor shisha smoking in cafes…
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Overpass progress
By CASEY NEILL A DANDENONG lobby group has welcomed progress on an overpass to cut congestion and save lives. But the State Government is yet…
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Soul lost from Christian bookshop
A DANDENONG shop that has been selling Christian books since 1977 will close its doors for the last time at 5pm on Saturday, 30 May.…
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Wordley is a wanted woman
POLICE are appealing for help from the public to find Michelle Dianna Wordley. They’ve issued three warrants for the 47-year-old’s arrest in relation to theft,…
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Save our spaces plea
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE residents are speaking out in a desperate bid to save scarce open space. Save Glendale Reserve spokesman Mark Dalton said he…
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Driver killed in tree smash
A DANDENONG North man has died following a car crash in Doveton this morning (Friday). Police believe a Holden sedan was travelling on Power Road…
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Placards and pickets as workers protest lock-out
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS UPDATE 6.00pm CANTERBURY Windows and Doors – the scene of the worker lockout – has counter-claimed the CFMEU had planned a complete shutdown…
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Honour for excellent effort
By CASEY NEILL CARL Bizon has joined the state’s business greats on the Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame’s Honour Roll. The managing director of TriMas…
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No sign of Somyurek
By Cam Lucadou-Wells EMBATTLED South-Eastern Metropolitan Region MP Adem Somyurek has missed the first two Parliamentary sitting days since being stood down as a cabinet…
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Loaded with care
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS Volunteer takes to the road to help asylum seekers… PUBLICITY-SHY but unquestionably generous, Elaine Smith is a major reason for Friends of…