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Shower of cash
By CASEY NEILL A DANDENONG small business determined to keep its manufacturing in Australia has been buoyed by a $195,000 boost. The Investing in Manufacturing…
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Kids go to Canberra
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS NEVER has Canberra been talked of in such hallowed terms. Students at St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School in Noble Park are positively…
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Business is blooming
A KEYSBOROUGH business is set to bring joy to mums around Australia this Mother’s Day. Staff at wholesale commercial nursery Karinga on Keys Road have…
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Well of wishes
By CASEY NEILL HAFTU Strintzos used to go looking for gold to buy school supplies. Now the Haileybury Keysborough student and his classmates are raising…
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Back to school in Dandy
DANDENONG Primary School has educated thousands of pupils since it opened its doors 140 years ago. Many former students returned to the Foster Street school…
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Life on $2 a day
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE’S May Dang is doing her bit to change the way people think about poverty. She’ll take part in Live Below the…
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Cash for the crusade
By CASEY NEILL CORNISH College has raised $610 to help a young man on an 18,000-kilometre crusade. Students and teachers at the Bangholme school dressed…
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Good turn in cancer fight
By CASEY NEILL ONE person in Australia will die from bowel cancer every two hours. And Dandenong Rotary is doing its bit to reduce this…
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Cash crop catch
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A SPRINGVALE man has been charged over a $1 million cannabis crop discovered in a factory on the Princes Highway last week.…
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Surviving the cut
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A DANDENONG-based Medicare Local’s success should insulate the branch from speculated federal cuts, its chairman says. Dr Nicholas Demediuk, who chairs South…
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Truckin’ trouble
HEAVY vehicles are in the sights of Greater Dandenong Highway Patrol. Senior Sergeant Scott Roberts said his team was running Operation Austrans throughout May. He…
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No bunnies for Easter
By CASEY NEILL EASTER brought some unwanted attention to hundreds of bunnies in Keysborough. Melbourne Water conducted rabbit baiting in a drain beside 402 Corrigan…