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Cars built for the long haul

By CASEY NEILL PATTERSON Cheney is this year celebrating 100 years since its birth in Flinders Street, Melbourne. The car and truck dealership has been a...

Star’s guest appearance

By NARELLE COULTER ON 26 MARCH 1975 the Journal announced an exciting new pop column, Pop Corn, to be penned exclusively by singer Ronnie Burns. “Ronnie...

Up there with the best

IN A time when newspapers are dropping in popularity it is rare to find one celebrating 150 years of production and I congratulate the...

Advertising on display

ADVERTISING has been the lifeblood of the Journal for 150 years, paying for staff wages, printing costs and, once the paper became free, its...

City’s colourful character

FORMER Dandenong mayor Frank Holohan has long been an avid reader of the Journal. He was first featured in the paper when he and wife...

Standing in line to support my paper

Long-time reader Lynette Crouch wrote to the Journal about her how important the paper has been in her life. “I was born at the Dandenong...

Homes are where the heart is

WHEN Daryl Rayner started selling real estate in the early 1980s, brick veneer homes in North Dandenong and Hallam sold for between $35,000 and...

In prime position

By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THE Facey name has been in central Dandenong for more than 100 years - and for several years was famous for its...

Proud of their patch

THE Stickleys know Noble Park like the proverbial back of their hand. The name has been synonymous with the region since the 1970s when Peter...

Agents are hot property

AFTER 34 years in real estate in Dandenong, Neil Butler knows a hot market when he sees one. “The market is hot (in Greater Dandenong)...

Legal land of opportunity

By CASEY NEILL LAW firm Macpherson and Kelley regards an advertisement in the Journal as its beginning. Jeffrey Macpherson placed the advert on 4 October 1905,...

Industry on a roll

By CASEY NEILL ONE of Ken Grenda’s earliest memories is sitting on the cabin roof of his father’s milk truck in the 1930s watching flood...

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Black-spot speeds slashed mid-April

The State Government says it will reduce the speed limit at a notorious black-spot section of Stud Road, Dandenong North from mid-April. The speed limit...