Tag: News
Pakula tipped as Holding successor
By DAN MOSS, STATE PARLIAMENT EDITOR
THE next likely Lyndhurst MP could be chosen by March 20 after the Labor Party meets to preselect its...
Memories, in Technicolor
SOME memories never fade away - like a movie reel, they go on and on.
Take the old days at the Dandenong Town Hall. The...
Stepping up for youth in trouble
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
EXCLUSIVE/VIDEO: A NEW team of peacemakers will soon be patrolling Greater Dandenong's streets with Victoria Police.
BJ Kour, an African youth outreach worker,...
FFA: Thunder puts its case
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
DANDENONG Thunder has made its case to Australian soccer's highest body against the "club-destroying" penalties issued last year.
On Thursday, club spokesman Sezar...
Family man cast a broad net
OBITUARY: Alfred (Alf) George Smith, January 10, 1926-February 10, 2013
DANDENONG identity Alf Smith was not one to shy away from hard work or contributing to...
'Party' driver faces charges
A Doveton man is expected to be charged with drink-driving after allegedly being intercepted while giving four teenage boys a lift to a party...
A merry musical duel
Husband and wife Brenton and Jacqui Edgecombe are set to lock bows for a string showdown at Drum Theatre this week.
Better known as the...
Tripod: Punchlines with perfect pitch
By HAYDN GODONY
A 'crazy' musical threesome, Tripod are comedy festival favourites both at home and overseas, singing ratbag songs that often disguise finely tuned...
Soul mates finally separate
VICTORIA’S oldest twins were inseparable for 97 years.
But Alice Churchill passed away at the Outlook Gardens hostel in Dandenong North on 9 February, leaving...
Clean and green
DANDENONG’S government services office is among five finalists for a national award.
The Property Council of Australia Innovation and Excellence Awards will be announced in...
Moving right along with Reverie
ARTWORK Reverie will soon return to Lonsdale Street in Dandenong.
The Dandenong Development Board and City of Greater Dandenong commissioned the piece in 2004 and...
By-election imminent
A LYNDHURST by-election will finally put local voters’ needs in the spotlight, the Greens said last week following Tim Holding’s retirement.
The MP announced on...
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Five in favour of in-house aged care
A near-majority of Greater Dandenong's new-elected councillors support retaining council aged care and disability services, according to a survey by ex-mayor Roz Blades.
Blades led...
