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Journal’s night of nights
FORMER and current Journal staff gathered at the Dandenong Club on Monday night to celebrate the newspaper’s 150th anniversary. Former classified advertising manager Barbara Haw…
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Shisha plan doused
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS GREATER Dandenong councillors have rejected a proposed shisha lounge in Lonsdale Street declaring it could be illegal under the Tobacco Act. At…
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Man run over
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman has been arrested after she allegedly ran down a pedestrian on purpose in Dandenong last week. The 29-year-old male pedestrian was rushed…
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Lotto luck leaves family smiling
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH DANDENONG Market Lotto has put a big smile on the faces of one Latrobe Valley family over the weekend. On Sunday 9…
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Month-long burglary spree
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A NOBLE PARK ice addict with an intellectual disability has been jailed for 16 months over a month-long burglary binge – including…
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Marquee moment for SES
THE Greater Dandenong Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) has benefitted from AAMI’s equipment handover program. AAMI’s equipment handover program has been running since 2002 and…
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Blue steel finds heavy metal
A 53-YEAR-OLD man was fined more than $200 after driving a car overloaded with scrap metal in Dandenong North on Sunday afternoon. The blue Holden…
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Shocking loss of Millane
SO HUGE was the outpouring of grief at the tragic loss of Collingwood football star Darren Millane in October 1991 that it brought central…
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Greg kept on giving
By CASEY NEILL GREG Dickson made a lasting impression on Margaret Ladner – and on Dandenong’s most disadvantaged. Margaret worked for the council’s home care…
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Bonds are our character
Reporter PHIL MCLEOD wrote for the Journal for 20 years. He covered footballer Darren Millane’s funeral, conducted one of the last interviews with author Frank…
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Earlybird got the papers
By CASEY NEILL DELIVERING the Journal gave at least one paperboy a strong work ethic he’s carried through life. Sean Whitaker now calls Drouin home,…
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Jack and the Journal
Journal columnist Jack Johnson is the author of ’When the clock strikes’, a memoir of growing up in Dandenong in the 1930s. To celebrate the…