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Open for business
Springvale’s shopping centre has slowed to a trickle after weeks of panic-buying frenzy – and this is the time when traders need our support for…
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Tourists’ frenzied flight as airports shutdown
All seemed well early into Tanila De Silva’s birthday trip with a mate and a cousin to a remote tropical island in the Philippines. Travel…
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Connection in time of crisis
Human connection – albeit at an appropriate distance – is still needed for community wellbeing, and Springvale Neighbourhood House is continuing to facilitate that connection…
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Council services open – at a distance
Greater Dandenong Council is still running services – though under ‘social distancing’ restrictions – during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mayor Jim Memeti said the council was…
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Seeds sown for park’s revival
Fertile ideas are welcome on how to revive a long-barren area of a Keysborough park. Greater Dandenong Council will launch an online survey on the…
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Hub under new scrutiny
Greater Dandenong Council has given the tick for new independent managers at the scandalised Noble Park Community Centre. The former committee and centre manager Brian…
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Council to fight for Yarraman Village trees
Greater Dandenong Council will fight a developer’s proposal to fell 40 mature River Red Gum trees for nine extra dwellings in the Yarraman Village estate.…
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Covid-19 claims two Victorian lives
Two patients have overnight become Victoria’s first coronavirus fatalities, as recorded cases rose to 520. Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton on 26 March confirmed…
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Synthetic cannabis like ‘100 bongs’: armed robber
A drug-fuelled man who threatened to kill during a violent armed robbery has described the influence of synthetic cannabis as like “100 bongs in one”.…
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Baddack wanted on warrant
Keysborough woman Katie Baddack, 31, is wanted by police after allegedly failing to appear at court. Five warrants have been issued after failing to face…
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Stage 3 restrictions inevitable: Premier
If you can stay at home, you must stay at home, Premier Daniel Andrews has bluntly urged Victorians on the eve of “painful and difficult”…
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L-plater blows 0.242
Police have impounded a learner driver’s car after she allegedly blew 0.242 in a preliminary breath test early on Wednesday 25 March. The 27-year-old Dandenong…
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