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Safe PL8
By Casey Neill GREATER Dandenong is a number plate theft hot spot, but a new police operation is targeting the crime. Operation SAFEPL8 will run…
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Pressure is on for steam weed killer
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS CLEAN steam may replace toxic herbicides as Greater Dandenong Council’s preferred weedkiller under a proposal tabled at a council meeting tonight (Monday).…
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Preppies move in
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG South families now don’t have to travel to find a kinder place – or miss out altogether. City of Greater Dandenong…
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Junction safety upgrade
STUD Road in Dandenong will receive $947,000 in safety upgrades early next year. South Eastern Metropolitan Region MP Gordon Rich-Phillips said the cash would address…
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Carers given a respite
By BRIDGET COOK A NEW service will bring respite for carers of people with a mental illness. More than 70 people attended the UnitingCare Community…
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Rocks make nature strips a hard place to hoon
BUSINESS owners have started to install rocks on nature strips in a desperate deterrence ploy against hoon drivers in an industrial estate in Fiveways Boulevard,…
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Wheeling 4 Wishes
ENDEAVOUR Hills students raised more than $1000 to help wishes come true this month. Maranatha Christian School joined with Dandenong disability support service Wallara for…
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Students mark Hajj rite
SPRINGVALE students celebrated the season of Hajj with a schoolyard pilgrimage. The juniors at Minaret College’s Springvale campus participated in a simulation of the Hajj…
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Little India ‘destroyed’
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS LITTLE India’s most enduring trader has called it quits, pronouncing the iconic Dandenong precinct “dead”. Kathryne Turton-Lane is closing her 26-year-old Heidi…
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Networked hoons are hard to nab
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS HOON drivers are mobile, mobilise in groups using mobile phones and hence are hard to catch, says Greater Dandenong highway patrol’s chief…
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Better rides would be just the ticket
DEMOCRACY can be a bit of a roller-coaster but it’s not the most exciting of rides for Springvale Rise Primary School Year 5 pupil Claudia.…
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Lifeboats floated for asylum seekers
By CASEY NEILL KILLESTER College students rallied to show their support for asylum seekers last week. They marched through the Springvale school grounds holding colourful…
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