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Farewell to a friendly face
By MARG STORK BLANCHE Lillian Lucas, a popular Noble Park resident, always had her door open for family and friends. A staunchly independent woman, Miss…
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VPL: Thunder appeal delayed
Dandenong Thunder’s appeal against a $40,000 fine and 10-home-game lock-out penalty handed down by a Football Federation Victoria tribunal has been postponed by a week.…
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AFL draft: Stingrays to the fore
SEE: Coach backs snubbed Stingray SEE: Taylor Garner head to North Melbourne SEE: New Saint Pierce US-bound DANDENONG Stingrays stars were prominent in the AFL draft on…
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'Flying rats' no myna matter
John Strachan is at war – and the battleground is his Oakleigh South backyard. The enemy? Some 23 centimetres of brown and black feathers, piercing…
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Church 'ruined my career'
By TARA McGRATH and CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS CARMEL Rafferty was silenced, shut down and bullied in 1992 when she dared to question the behaviour of a…
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Haunted by priests' 'dark history'
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS FATHER Michael Shadbolt says a “dark history” of child sex abuse by rogue priests still haunts his Holy Family parish in Doveton.…
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It's official: Greater Dandenong's streets ahead
By MARG STORK THE reason Greater Dandenong is ‘great’ is the people who laid the foundations of our historic city. Tour guides taking visitors around…
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Jobs decline as Dandenong work goes overseas
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS JOBS in Greater Dandenong are growing scarcer and it’s getting tougher to snare even an entry-level job, a local recruiter says. In…
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Men's shed: Fund-raiser for Springvale multicultural shed.
A multicultural men’s shed is planned at Springvale Uniting Church early next year and a fund-raising dinner hopes to raise up to $10,000 to install the…
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Mosque for Doveton vote 'not faith-based'
CASEY councillor Wayne Smith says ideology would not sway his vote on a proposed mosque in Green Street, Doveton. More than 100 petitioners have opposed…
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Segways segue for Dandenong baby shop
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS THERE’S a new way to take a spin in Dandenong. George Banjac and daughter Diana Papasavva have made an unlikely expansion of…
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Off the bottled water
Silverton Primary School pupils Shania, Jamie, Jaden and Sam were part of a bold film about the environmental harm producing bottled water causes. The War Against…