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Filthy on 'eyesore' beside Cheltenham Road
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
PLACES Victoria and Greater Dandenong Council are being urged to remove an "eyesore" of weedy soil heaps outside a housing estate 'gateway'...
Pharmacy robbed in Dandenong
An man armed with a knife held up a pharmacy in Stud Road, Dandenong, on Sunday, April 21. The man, described as aged between...
Anzac spirit honoured from Dandenong to Gallipoli
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
NOTHING compares to marking Anzac Day at Gallipoli, says Greater Dandenong mayor — and current tourist in Turkey — Angela Long.
What's different...
War service that was never meant to be
By CASEY NEILL
GEOFFREY Charters joined the Air Force at age of 18 and fought in Borneo during World War II - but his service...
Honour the dead and help the damaged
By CASEY NEILL
THE Vietnam veterans’ motto is ‘Honour the dead, but fight like hell for the living’.
It’s a mantra Noble Park RSL president and...
Scars apart, ’best thing ever’
By CASEY NEILL
“YOU’D be six weeks without even taking your boots off, and when you did, your feet’d just bleed.
“No blisters or holes in...
Final resting places
By CASEY NEILL
PRIVATE Bernard Haines was just 14 years old when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1916.
He was 15 when he...
Memorial to the defeated
By CASEY NEILL
ANDY Nguyen went from lawyer to fruit picker when he escaped to Australia after the Vietnam War.
The 66-year-old completed his law degree...
High time for path report
By CASEY NEILL
A NOBLE Park mound is creating heated debate over aged and disability access via a sloping footpath.
Councillor Maria Sampey at Monday night’s...
Party in the country
DANDENONG’S Country Women’s Association (CWA) branch is celebrating its 80th birthday on 9 May and would love past members to join in the party.
Anyone...
Lone Pine’s tribute grows
CITY of Greater Dandenong will look at harvesting pine cones from a Lone Pine descendent to mark the Gallipoli conflict’s 100th anniversary.
Councillor Peter Brown...
Service maintains interest in diggers
NOBLE Park RSL welcomed hundreds of people to its Anzac Day service on Sunday 21 April.
Schools, community groups and politicians laid wreaths at the...
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Bleeding Bloods to meet Bucks in big Turf 1 contest
Coloured clothing is going back in the cupboards as whites make a sweeping return across the Dandenong District Cricket Association landscape this weekend in...
