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In the running
By CASEY NEILL IMAGINE driving a billy cart. Down a water slide. At 130 kilometres an hour. This is how Winter Olympian and former Dandenong…
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Taxi drivers’ police plea
By CASEY NEILL TAXI drivers are calling for more support from police, following a drunken assault in Dandenong last Monday. Sojan Thomas told the Journal…
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Unfair fines hit
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG Plaza is unfairly fining shoppers, claiming they’ve overstayed in time-restricted parking zones. Loraine Doran parked on level one in the Clow…
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Bunny busters
By CASEY NEILL A PLAGUE of rabbits has brought an influx of foxes to a Keysborough school site. But a solution to a five-year battle…
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Charity keeps pot topped up
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS “SOMETIMES the pot was on top of the fire and there was nothing to put in it. I know what it’s like…
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On the scrap heap
By CASEY NEILL “I FELT sick. That’s the only way to describe it.” Jill Wilcox said Toyota’s decision last week to stop making cars in…
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Science in action
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG North teacher Judith Sise loves science. And her work to share that passion with students at Lyndale Greens Primary School has…
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Good citizen’s life of service
Wallace Robert Werrett Born: 9 October 1920 Died: 1 February 2014 DANDENONG Citizen of the Year and Medal of the Order of Australia recipient Wallace…
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Reformed gambler’s now in his happy place
IT’S been almost a year since Springvale tradie Matt Torcasio last gambled. “I’m a lot happier and I’m pretty proud,” he said. The 27-year-old is…
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Gambler ends losing streak
A PROBLEM gambler who has squandered more than $100,000 on poker machines in Dandenong and Doveton has been helped back on the rails by his…
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Undercover car
By CASEY NEILL FAMILY violence unit police can make discrete visits thanks to a new car from the council. City of Greater Dandenong last week…
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High-rise concerns continue
A FOUR-STOREY apartment block in Springvale received council approval last Monday. But not all the City of Greater Dandenong councillors voted for the application for…
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