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Bench debate parked
The controversial quest for extra seating in Norine Cox Reserve may now have been laid to rest. Cr Jim Memeti welcomed three new benches into…
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AI helps kids explore reading
A Doveton school has found an innovative way to help its students develop their literacy skills. Holy Family Primary School is using Lexplore, a program…
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Help sought after mum’s tragic death
Family and friends are rallying behind a seven-year-old daughter whose mother suddenly died at home in Doveton. Kristie Noade, 33, had been stricken by type…
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Park hopes shaded
A touted Chain of Parks parkland at a former landfill in Springvale South has been quashed in favour of a controversial 68,000-panel solar farm. On…
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Covid 19: Tier 1 exposure in Springvale
A heavy-vehicle dealership in Springvale has been listed as a Tier 1 Covid exposure site over a seven-day period. An infected case visited CMV Truck…
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Resident stabbed in home invasion
A resident has been allegedly stabbed multiple times during an aggravated home invasion by two men in Noble Park last year. Police say the men…
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Man arrested over stabbing brawl
A man has been arrested after an alleged stabbing in Golden Grove, Springvale South. Police say that a man was stabbed in the leg as…
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Beeping ball proves sound idea
A Melbourne-designed beeping ball is set to revolutionise the sport of blind cricket. South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance member GoProto in partnership with Morrabbin-based Kookaburra…
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Covid cases rise in Casey
An Endeavour Hills service-station and a supermarket, as well as a cluster of Dandenong medical premises, have been listed as Covid exposure sites. The most…
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Daughters ’set record straight’
Daughters of a deceased hospital patient have told an inquiry on 2 September that their mother ate I Cook Food sandwiches. On their mother’s 89th…
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Knox report ’no impact’ on charges
Greater Dandenong chief executive officer John Bennie says the council’s prosecution of I Cook Foods had no link to the food eaten by a deceased…
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Closed due to ’shortcomings’
Department of Health officials took a “risk-based, proportionate” response by not recently shutting down a Meals on Wheels supplier linked to a man’s listeria-related death,…