Tag: News
Car dumped and torched on bypass
POLICE are calling for witnesses after a stolen car was dumped and torched at the Dandenong Bypass.
The stolen black 1994 Nissan Coupe with no...
Intruder alert
AN INTRUDER was arrested after he fled a Dandenong home empty-handed when the occupants disturbed him.
The man, aged in his 30s, broke into the...
Mugging victim bites back
A WOMAN bit a man who confronted her from behind and demanded her phone in Springvale.
The 23-year-old woman was walking north along Springvale Road...
Parking meters set for a tweak
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
GREATER Dandenong Council is considering “tweaks” to its controversial Springvale parking meters, less than three months since their installation.
The parking meters, which...
Click with computers
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
DANDENONG charity Avocare has branched out into neighbouring Casey to offer computers to students who are unable to afford the vital link...
Pride in achievements
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
ON THE Doveton stage a group of children held two-sided flags - one with Australian colours and the other with Indian colours.
The...
Passport to help refugees
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A FORMER refugee who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan has dedicated himself to helping others in a similar plight.
Hayatullah Rahimi, 35, was...
Emergency saves station
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
TWO years ago, senior CFA officials didn’t expect Noble Park’s fire brigade to survive.
The membership was so low that the 87-year-old brigade...
Golf rezone
By CASEY NEILL
GREATER Dandenong Council has scaled back a push to rezone green wedge areas of Bangholme.
Councillors agreed to withdraw their 23 November decision...
TV crusher is turned on
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A BLUE-BOX - about the size of five Tardises - that rapidly dismantles and recycles discarded big-screen TVs, computers and other electronic...
Zest for life an inspiration
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
DEDICATED charity worker Carma Keast, OAM, will be long remembered for her compassion and humility.
Mrs Keast lived in Dandenong for much of...
Grant gets to the pointe
By CASEY NEILL
DANCE teacher Michelle Johnson was floored to receive a Greater Dandenong business grant on 10 December.
Thanks to the $8000 helping hand her...
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Judge tells murderer to ‘stop the crocodile tears’
A bodybuilder who stabbed his partner to death using six knives in Endeavour Hills while her young daughter tried to stop him has been...
