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Sharing a gift of love
By DANIEL TRAN IN the last few seconds of her life, Michelle Parker looked her father, mother and husband in the eye and told them…
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Builder’s solid contribution
By Marg Stork RETIRED Dandenong builder Piet ‘Peter’ Mettes died as he would have wished: among friends at the Green Table billiards club in Dandenong…
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Edna to make it a century, plus one
By MARG STORK THERE was an air of excitement and anticipation at Darvall Lodge nursing home in Noble Park this week as residents and staff…
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Feral cat warnings after teacher bitten
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A NOBLE Park Primary School teacher was hospitalised after trying to contain a feral cat in a classroom. To add salt to…
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Ruffled over pigeons
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS PIGEONS and their droppings have got shoppers and traders at a Doveton shopping strip in a flutter. Regulars at the Autumn Place…
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Catching on quick time
A COMPUTER and the internet is opening horizons for Doveton mother Suzzane Calgaret and her daughter Laquita. They were one of 40 indigenous families in…
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Staff cuts faulted in nursing home death
By DAVID SCHOUT A NOBLE PARK nursing home had been trialling staff cuts at the time a resident died on Black Saturday, the coroner has…
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Number’s up for drivers dodging fines
By DANIEL TRAN WHAT DO YOU THINKG about search-and-clamp operations in car parks? Scroll to the bottom to post a comment. THE Victorian Sheriff’s office…
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Sending out a message on modern slavery
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS YOU have a choice, anti human-trafficking campaigner David Cross says. You can put your money towards ending the burgeoning sex-slave trade in…
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Pupils helped by class act
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS and ALECIA PINNER CHILDREN as young as primary school-age are ‘dropping out’ to care for afflicted parents, says a Noble Park-based principal.…
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Punters cut short a hospitality career
By Cameron Lucadou-Wells DON, a former manager of ALH Group venues such as Keysborough Hotel, says the advent of “antisocial” pokies drove him out of…
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Poor ‘targeted’ over pokies
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS WOOLWORTHS is a major player in a poker machines industry preying on socially disadvantaged areas like Greater Dandenong, says a public health…
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