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  • Pen and ink caused a stink

    Pen and ink caused a stink

    IN THE late 1940s the Journal published a series of cartoons by Alec Brierley under the heading Looking Back on the Good Old Days. The…

  • Journal’s jeep hit the streets

    Journal’s jeep hit the streets

    By NARELLE COULTER THROUGH rain, hail and shine, Merle Leak ensured her neighbours received their weekly copy of the Journal for more than 20 years.…

  • Murder on the city’s streets

    Murder on the city’s streets

    By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THEY were crimes that resonated throughout Greater Dandenong. Journal police reporter Lachlan Moorhead looks back at some of the darker stories that…

  • Newshound on crime’s trail

    Newshound on crime’s trail

    By LACHLAN MOORHEAD HUGH Buggy was known as the ‘oracle’. So detailed were the crime reporter’s records of murder investigations that, after his death, police…

  • Journal among the icons

    Journal among the icons

    THE Journal is one of a handful of institutions that have been constants in the life of Dandenong since the 1800s. The 20 years from…

  • Market’s wide embrace

    Market’s wide embrace

    Dandenong’s iconic market and the Journal were founded a year apart. As the market gears up to celebrate its 150th anniversary next year, marketing manager…

  • Printed photo saves the day

    Printed photo saves the day

    By GEORGIA WESTGARTH IF IT wasn’t for the Dandenong Journal, Helena and Richard Green would be without a photo from their wedding day. Married in…

  • We loved our youthful adventures

    We loved our youthful adventures

    Artist Sue Jarvis, one of former mayor Maurie and mayoress Gwen Jarvis’s four daughters, tells the Journal what Dandenong was like in her formative years.…

  • Stories are printed into history

    Stories are printed into history

    As Mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong, I, along with my fellow councillors, extend our sincere commendation and congratulations to the Journal on achieving…

  • Black Saturday tragedy strikes home

    By LACHLAN MOORHEAD TONY Jones tried calling Brian Naylor at his Kinglake West property but no one picked up. It was 7 February 2009 and…

  • Stories keep the score

    Stories keep the score

    By CASEY NEILL BRUCE and Alan Collard have kept every story about the Greater Dandenong Band they’ve found in the Journal’s pages since 1965. They…

  • Quiet man had depth of strength

    Quiet man had depth of strength

    By NARELLE COULTER BARBARA EDWARDS said with a laugh that she knows more about her father, Harold Tulloch, from the pages of the Journal than…

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