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Go for green
A COUNCIL draft review into Greater Dandenong’s southern green wedge areas in Bangholme and Keysborough South is expected to be unveiled in early 2014. City…
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Strike action goes on
STRIKE action at the Springvale and Bangholme cemeteries is continuing. A pay and conditions dispute between the Australian Workers Union (AWU) and Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries…
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What’s on
Haunting performance THE Haunting of Daniel Gartrell invites audiences to reflect on the impact secrets have on life with humour and poignancy. Samuel Johnson, Max…
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Raid nets ice ingredient
A SPRINGVALE storage facility was part of a $200 million drug raid last week. In one of the largest single seizures of ephedrine in Australian…
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Upgrade gives councillor a little lift
A LIFT for the upgraded Springvale Railway Station has City of Greater Dandenong councillor Roz Blades jumping for joy. “I’m just totally rapt,” she said.…
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Off to a flying start
By MICHAEL FLOYD THE path to the world’s richest greyhound race, the $500,000 Group 1 Melbourne Cup, began last Thursday with the first Melbourne Cup…
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Mayor refuses to resign
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS GREATER Dandenong Mayor Angela Long has rejected calls to resign after refusing to answer persistent questioning on an alleged legal probe she…
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Ann finally gets her way
By CASEY NEILL A REMINDER of Ann Halpin’s legacy now takes pride of place in central Dandenong. City of Greater Dandenong last Wednesday (18 September)…
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Zoo trip cash raised
HARRISFIELD Kinder kids strutted their stuff for an important cause this month – their trip to the zoo. Three and four-year-olds modelled the latest summer…
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Ice’s chilling effects
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS GONE are the days when alcoholics and heroin addicts “at their lowest ebb” could walk in off the street and get detox…
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Orange wall of fire
By CASEY NEILL AN “orange wall of fire” that engulfed a Dandenong South flooring factory Thursday night could have turned deadly. QEP Australia managing director…
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Huge crowds welcomed emporium
By CASEY NEILL THOUSANDS flocked to McCrae Street to watch Dandenong mayor Keith Miller open Myer’s doors on 4 November 1974. “And they even drank…
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