Uncategorized
-
Council wants out of smart meters
GREATER Dandenong Council will formally oppose the installation of smart meters in all council-owned buildings and will engage solicitors to investigate its legal rights to…
-
The simple things lead to happy life
AS soon as Bill Blanchard met 20-year-old Margaret Stutterd at their workplace, he knew she would be his wife. Fifty years later — last Monday…
-
Award reflects garden's style
By DAVID SCHOUT and CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS THE designers of Keysborough’s distinct Somerville estate garden have taken out a Victorian Landscape award. The ‘Reflections’ garden, designed…
-
Small and creative
Artist Neil Wanstall works on one of his creations for this year’s Walker Street Gallery 9 x 5 exhibition. The popular annual show by the…
-
Blow-out in TAFE fees
By DAVID SCHOUT STUDENTS at Dandenong’s Chisholm Institute will be expected to pay up to double their current course fees in 2013. The recently released…
-
Booze blitz brews for silly season
POLICE have targeted venues that allow drunk patrons or smoking inside during a liquor licensing blitz expected to go through the Christmas period. Police began…
-
Council prunes yuletide cheer
By DAVID SCHOUT IF you’ve driven along Lonsdale Street this month and noticed fewer Christmas decorations, there’s a reason why. This year, unlike other years,…
-
Drugs put Noble Park in spotlight
By DAVID SCHOUT NOBLE PARK has emerged as a cannabis hot spot after police seized another hydroponic crop last week. The crop was the third…
-
Lesson in history from school notes
By DAVID SCHOUT IN 1912, school drop-offs and pick-ups were more likely to have been horse-drawn rather than horse-powered; ‘apple’ was a lunchtime food rather…
-
VAFA: Multicultural Dragons join amateur ranks
By ROY WARD SOUTHERN Dragons president Jamie Pi believes his club will thrive in the Victorian Amateur Football Association after winning the right to leave…
-
EFL: Bull aims for shot at glory
NOBLE Park coach Mick Fogarty has labelled star forward Ziggy Alwan a chance to be the next Bull to move into the AFL. Alwan has…
-
Bendigo bogey haunts Rangers
By ROY WARD IN many ways Dandenong Rangers had a dream year in 2012. They went from the brink of play-off elimination to go on…
Digital Editions
