Tag: Editors Picks
Double celebration for birthday, wedding anniversary
FRIENDS and family of Keith Shugg and his wife Sheila marked the couple's 63rd wedding anniversary this month, even though the pair were not...
Farewell to a friendly face
By MARG STORK
BLANCHE Lillian Lucas, a popular Noble Park resident, always had her door open for family and friends.
A staunchly independent woman, Miss Lucas...
VPL: Thunder appeal delayed
Dandenong Thunder's appeal against a $40,000 fine and 10-home-game lock-out penalty handed down by a Football Federation Victoria tribunal has been postponed by a...
AFL draft: Stingrays to the fore
SEE: Coach backs snubbed Stingray
SEE: Taylor Garner head to North Melbourne
SEE: New Saint Pierce US-bound
DANDENONG Stingrays stars were prominent in the AFL draft on Thursday night.
As...
'Flying rats' no myna matter
John Strachan is at war - and the battleground is his Oakleigh South backyard. The enemy? Some 23 centimetres of brown and black feathers,...
Dandenong Your Say: Letters to the Editor
Cereal pest: Serrated tussock
The Dandenong Journal of November 12 warned residents not to try a do-it-yourself removal of the serrated tussock weed. It would be...
Church 'ruined my career'
By TARA McGRATH and CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
CARMEL Rafferty was silenced, shut down and bullied in 1992 when she dared to question the behaviour of a...
Haunted by priests' 'dark history'
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
FATHER Michael Shadbolt says a "dark history" of child sex abuse by rogue priests still haunts his Holy Family parish in Doveton.
The...
It's official: Greater Dandenong's streets ahead
By MARG STORK
THE reason Greater Dandenong is 'great' is the people who laid the foundations of our historic city.
Tour guides taking visitors around won't...
Jobs decline as Dandenong work goes overseas
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
JOBS in Greater Dandenong are growing scarcer and it's getting tougher to snare even an entry-level job, a local recruiter says.
In June,...
Men's shed: Fund-raiser for Springvale multicultural shed.
A multicultural men's shed is planned at Springvale Uniting Church early next year and a fund-raising dinner hopes to raise up to $10,000 to install...
Mosque for Doveton vote 'not faith-based'
CASEY councillor Wayne Smith says ideology would not sway his vote on a proposed mosque in Green Street, Doveton.
More than 100 petitioners have opposed...
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Magnificent Mendis and a duo of hundreds set up intriguing second...
Berwick and Narre South’s pivotal Turf 1 clash in the Dandenong District Cricket Association finished day one on a knife’s edge after a brilliant...
