Tag: Community
Hallam speedsters frighten families
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
THERE'S a section of Nettle Drive in Hallam that could be a perfect design for a racing car circuit: a 200-metre straight...
Pay cuts loom as TAFE crisis escalates
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
CHISHOLM Institute has not responded to claims of secret plans to put staff on vastly lower pay and conditions.
As reported by the...
Just the cure for Greater Dandenong senioritis
By MARG STORK
AS warmer weather, bluer skies, and the songs of birds herald the spring, the young at heart can step out and have...
Doxa: Council holds ace over pokies rights
GREATER Dandenong Council says the Doxa Social Club has no special rights to set up a pokies den in central Dandenong.
As reported in the...
Preschool plea over Dandenong West crossing
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
PARENTS and children are finding pick-up and drop-off time at Dandenong West Preschool more than a handful.
Lucy, the preschool's manager, says a...
Cannabis: Noble Park man charged with trafficking
A Noble Park man has been charged with trafficking cannabis after two police raids.
On September 5, Dandenong tasking unit police raided an Oakleigh transport...
Home trashed in brazen Dandenong invasion
Three people, including a one-year-old boy, locked themselves in a room as their house and two cars were trashed in a terrifying home invasion...
Cr Donovan won't recontest
Greater Dandenong councillor and former mayor Paul Donovan says he will bow out from civic duties next month.
Cr Donovan simply said "it's quits for...
Council staff in stop-work bans
Greater Dandenong Council workers will stop their paperwork, mowing ovals, tending to parks and emptying bins as part of stopwork bans on Thursday.
Workers last...
Anti-terror raids: Aimless youth, 'wild ideas' and a trail
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
AN Islamic centre in Springvale South raided by police in an anti-terror operation has been described as a small group of young...
Dorotea's off to build a future
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
COMMERCE student Dorotea Horina has some of the world's biggest problems on her mind as she travels from Dandenong North to Geneva.
Ms...
Crowds up: Sticky start to Sandown success
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
ORGANISERS are boasting about a surge in crowds for last weekend’s Sandown 500 despite a sticky start to Sunday.
Sandown Raceway manager Wade...