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Cash boost to save energy
THREE Greater Dandenong businesses will soon be saving energy, thanks to $59,760 in grants. South Eastern Metropolitan Region MP Gordon Rich-Phillips announced the cash boost…
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Old cop shop, court burn in arson spree
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE’S former police station and court house were torched during an arson spree last night. Greater Dandenong CIU detectives are interviewing a…
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In the running
By CASEY NEILL IMAGINE driving a billy cart. Down a water slide. At 130 kilometres an hour. This is how Winter Olympian and former Dandenong…
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Taxi drivers’ police plea
By CASEY NEILL TAXI drivers are calling for more support from police, following a drunken assault in Dandenong last Monday. Sojan Thomas told the Journal…
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Unfair fines hit
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG Plaza is unfairly fining shoppers, claiming they’ve overstayed in time-restricted parking zones. Loraine Doran parked on level one in the Clow…
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Bunny busters
By CASEY NEILL A PLAGUE of rabbits has brought an influx of foxes to a Keysborough school site. But a solution to a five-year battle…
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Charity keeps pot topped up
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS “SOMETIMES the pot was on top of the fire and there was nothing to put in it. I know what it’s like…
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On the scrap heap
By CASEY NEILL “I FELT sick. That’s the only way to describe it.” Jill Wilcox said Toyota’s decision last week to stop making cars in…
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Science in action
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG North teacher Judith Sise loves science. And her work to share that passion with students at Lyndale Greens Primary School has…
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Good citizen’s life of service
Wallace Robert Werrett Born: 9 October 1920 Died: 1 February 2014 DANDENONG Citizen of the Year and Medal of the Order of Australia recipient Wallace…
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Reformed gambler’s now in his happy place
IT’S been almost a year since Springvale tradie Matt Torcasio last gambled. “I’m a lot happier and I’m pretty proud,” he said. The 27-year-old is…
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Gambler ends losing streak
A PROBLEM gambler who has squandered more than $100,000 on poker machines in Dandenong and Doveton has been helped back on the rails by his…
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