Tag: News
Guilty plea over fatal train crash
A TRUCK driver last week pleaded guilty to five charges over a fatal Dandenong South train crash.
Melville Bollen, 72, from Narre Warren North, was...
Voice rises for democracy
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A CASEY resident, originally from South Sudan, has been an active participant in the state’s Democracy Ambassador program ahead of...
Grocery memories come flooding back
Jack Johnson is the author of when The Clock Strikes, a fascinating account of growing up in Dandenong, his years tending to the city’s...
Three charged ove drugs and gun haul
POLICE have charged three men with drugs and firearms offences following raids in Dandenong and Hallam.
They executed search warrants in Ingrid Street, Dandenong, and...
A kick out of helping
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
IN CARLOS’S eyes, there is no greater reward than being a volunteer.
For more than two decades Doveton’s Juan Carlos Loyola...
Bench fire
POLICE and CFA were called to a fire in Hallam where equipment at a playground was on fire.
Around 11.40pm on Saturday 8 November, fire...
Reckless charges
A 39-YEAR-old Endeavour Hills man has been arrested and charged with 13 offences following an investigation.
The man’s charges included burglary, theft, the handling of...
Appalling abuse can turn to honour and respect for all
By GRAEME CANN (CASEY PASTORS NETWORK)
AS A man, I am obviously appalled by the statistics relating to the abuse of women and...
Mosque hits back
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
Minarets prompt concerns over jihadist teaching...
A SOON-to-be-built Doveton mosque has slammed suggestions by a Casey councillor that it could be a...
Soccer friends in the net
WHO’S up for some soccer among friends?
Last Friday Doveton Special Soccer School held its 11th annual Friendship Day in which more than 100 children...
Invitation to feel valued
By CASEY NEILL
A CHANCE chat in a Berwick chicken shop led Chisholm CEO Maria Peters into TAFE.
She told last week’s South East Business Networks’...
Centre’s strength to reach out
WAVERLEY Gardens was recently sold and is now under new management.
Global property services firm Jones Lang LaSalle has taken control of the centre, which...