Editors Picks
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Give business a council vote: Peulich
Dandenong Retail Traders Association chairwoman Glenys Cooper has backed a state MP’s idea for business people being given the vote in council elections. Ms Cooper…
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Drug trafficking charges
A man has been charged with trafficking about $40,000 worth of methamphetamines after police raided two neighbouring units in Springvale. Greater Dandenong tasking unit members…
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Dandenong retailers focus on success
Marketing consultant Ross Pepper will be guest speaker at a Dandenong Retail Traders Association meeting next week. Mr Pepper will speak on ‘what’s important in…
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Pipe up for a lost painting
Dandenong police are seeking the owner of a recently found oil painting. The bright, rustic painting of a weatherboard house has a brown wooden frame…
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Greater Dandenong leaders named as citizen consultants
THREE Greater Dandenong community leaders have been appointed ‘grassroots’ consultants to the federal government and the Australian Multicultural Council. Councillor and former mayor Jim Memeti,…
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Shaye Kosky mourners' pink tribute for teen
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS THE words on the tribute screen said it all: “One day can change everything.” It was an understated reminder of 13-year-old Shaye…
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EPA: Funding cuts trash pollution fighter's efforts
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS THE state body charged with policing pollution in Melbourne’s south-east is being trashed by funding cuts, its regional manager concedes. In a…
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Market traders call for Dandenong rent cut
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS DANDENONG Market traders have upped the ante in their fight with management, demanding a 50 per cent rate reduction backdated to last…
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Show and tell, a Dandy affair
FOR more years than I can remember — dating back to the happy days when The Journal occupied premises at Scott Street — I was…
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Labor's Pakula refuses to pledge on Lyndhurst landfill
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS THE ALP’s endorsed candidate for next month’s Lyndhurst byelection will not fight for the removal of the state’s only hazardous waste landfill.…
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Danny Nalliah: Crestani to contest Senate for Rise Up Australia
By CATHERINE WATSON CASEY councillor Rosalie Crestani has confirmed she will stand for Australia’s new ultra-right political party in the September federal election. Danny Nalliah,…
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Hallam bus crash: Residents warned of road's perils
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS LATEST: Residents say they have been pleading for speed humps on Nettle Drive, Hallam for more than a year where a car…