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Lifelong Keysborough mates rejoice at $2.2 m Tatts win
A private syndicate of ‘lifelong mates’ from Keysborough are rejoicing today after their long-running syndicate scored a division one win in the weekend’s TattsLotto draw.…
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Work starts on central park
Work has begun on a new community sports court with CCTV and lighting in central Dandenong. Replacing the temporary Pop-Up Park near Dandenong railway station,…
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Street sex scourge
Residents in ‘inner’ Dandenong West are linking a prevalence of street sex workers, drug dealers and menacing perverts to large numbers of “seemingly unregulated” rooming…
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Eye-sore squats under the radar
You wonder what it will take for the clean-up of a long-standing squatter-house in Scott Street Dandenong. Star News believes that the three-unit eye-sore has…
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iCook Foods to sue as shutdown ends
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has lifted the closure orders imposed on Dandenong South commercial caterer iCook Foods after a food poisoning…
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Sky rail’s hits and misses
Promised parts of the Noble Park level-crossings removal project remain incomplete, according to a Greater Dandenong Council review. The report on 25 March stated that…
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Woodlee Street woes investigated
Greater Dandenong Council will launch a formal report into traffic bedlam plaguing Dandenong North Primary School. Cr Matthew Kirwan, who raised the motion on 25…
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Butt sparks freeway fire
A flung cigarette butt is believed to have ignited a Monash Freeway grass fire that severely delayed outbound peak-time traffic in Endeavour Hills on 27…
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Butts out of our creeks
An award-winning campaign urging residents to ‘bin their butts’ is set to pound Greater Dandenong’s pavement. A cigarette-shaped character #msnobutts and her ‘twin sister’ from…
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Holiday Inn tower to open in Dandenong
An 11-storey “world-class” hotel has been announced to tower above Cheltenham Road, Dandenong by 2021. Earmarked for 64 Cheltenham Road, the 160-room Holiday Inn &…
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Meeting on a level playing field
Politicians and staffers pitted themselves against Doveton Special Soccer School for their annual friendly at Soccer 5s Dandenong South. In an entertaining clash, the DSSS…
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School scores benchmark gift
A playground bench of recycled plastic is the latest gift bestowed by a local Greek yoghurt manufacturer to Dandenong South Primary School. Chobani donated the…