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Outside-school care boost
Rosewood Primary School is set to introduce an outside-school-hours care service, thanks to a State grant. Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams announced the school’s $224,700 funding…
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Gym set to take shape
Works have started on a new gymnasium as part of the stage 1 revamp of Noble Park Aquatic Centre. The two-storey, 600-square-metre Health and Wellbeing…
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Unlawful lawnmower cuts a fine line
A lawn mower ‘driver’ has been intercepted by police after driving on Perry Road in Keysborough. The green John Deere ride-on travelled across the Dandenong…
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Sustainable festival rebrand
Are you one of the champions of climate change in Greater Dandenong? Residents, students, workers and businesses are invited to enter the council’s 2021 Sustainability…
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Hub works to start 2024
Greater Dandenong Council is set to hire a consultant to help “progress” the long-awaited Dandenong Community Hub project. Community services director Martin Fidler told a…
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Anti-nuke push ‘nonsense’
Greater Dandenong Council has narrowly voted down a motion to lobby for Australia to sign an international treaty banning nuclear weapons. The motion’s proponent Rhonda…
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Action plan for ‘feared’ streets
A staggering 80 per cent of surveyed people say they feel unsafe at night in the troubled Hemmings Street precinct in Dandenong West. Greater Dandenong…
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Woman dies in two-car crash
A woman has died in hospital after a two-vehicle crash in Noble Park North. Police say a white Honda Accord collided with a green Hyundai…
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Working weekend cost defended
A weekend strategic workshop for City of Greater Dandenong councillors and executives at a Mornington Peninsula resort has been partly justified by bushfires several hundred…
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Seeing five sets of double
Killester College students and staff were at first startled to find five sets of twins starting in Year 7 this year. The first-morning assembly caused…
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State’s new ‘JobKeeper’?
A $250 million wage subsidy program will help businesses employ at least 10,000 job seekers, according to the State Government. The Jobs Victoria Fund was…
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Red light to halt pandemic
The Drum theatre in Dandenong was lit up red in recognition of the 1.4 million people who die from tuberculosis each year. It was one…