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Slipping skills ‘an opportunity’
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH LITERACY and numeracy skills among Australian children have largely slipped in writing tasks. But Doveton College principal Greg McMahon says he sees…
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Cut and run
POLICE were called to a Doveton unit late last month where a man in his fifties had been stabbed. The man suffered lacerations in the…
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Crying for jobs
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD TWO Casey councillors have called for an “urgent meeting” with Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams and council officers as the conjecture about Doveton’s…
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Sudden stop inside fruit shop
A CAR ploughed into a Doveton fruit shop and into the aisle this morning, but no-one was hit in the crash. Ambulance crews were called…
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Cop’s wisdom for parents
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A SENIOR police officer from Endeavour Hills has urged parents not to tell their kids police will “lock them up” in jail,…
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Bomb squad at Doveton home
THE police bomb squad was sent to a Doveton property on Saturday night after police were called to the address. Police arrived at the Rose…
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Spreading wings, broadening minds
By DANI ROTHWELL COMPETING for their second year, Gleneagles students are broadening their minds through the Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) program. The students spend the…
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Drugs seized from home
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH A QUANTITY of GHB, ecstasy and weapons were seized from a home in Endeavour Hills on Wednesday of last week. A drug…
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Car torched off freeway
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH A HOLDEN Commodore sedan was torched on the nature strip between Rebecca Street and the Monash Freeway on Sunday. The 2004 model…
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CFA checks for gas leak after car ploughs into shop
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A WOMAN has been rushed to Dandenong Hospital after a car ploughed through the rear of a chemist shop at Hallam this…
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Man detained over string of burglaries
A DOVETON man has been charged in relation to 20 separate burglaries carried out in Casey and Dandenong over the last few weeks. Police executed…
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Pushing up
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS JEMAL Abazi, as a man who has kept hundreds of young people on track, doesn’t ask for much. His Albanian Eagles Youth…
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