News
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Nights of light
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS All this glitter is a history of Christmas gold… AFTER 20 years as a beacon of festive cheer, Doveton’s most famous Christmas-light…
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Face stares through history
By NARELLE COULTER CHRISTMAS Eve 1914, the Western Front, France: the bullets and bombs that had turned the French countryside into a muddy, bloody hell…
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Heart shock and awe
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD A DOCTOR responsible for fitting a Doveton man with a revolutionary new defibrillator that delivers lifesaving shocks without the need for electrical…
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Health outlook in mind
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD BRUCE Austin stood atop the lookout, gazed over the City of Casey, and prayed. Only a few months earlier, in 2010, the…
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Cook up for healthy meal
MONASH Health is working day and night to address the negative stigma that can be attached to mental health illnesses. The employees who work in…
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Sights set on gun selfies
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD POLICE are still searching for eight guns which were alleged stolen from a Berwick house last month. It is believed a burglar…
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Fire may save site
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD CASEY councillor Rafal Kaplon has ramped up his calls for the neglected Endeavour Hills Secondary College site to be put to use…
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Santa stitched up to spread happiness
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THE Endeavour Hills Neighbourhood Centre is doing everything it can to bring some Christmas cheer to the community in 2014. This year…
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Gifts ease the strain
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD CHRISTMAS is not always a pleasant time for those in Casey who may have no family to turn to nor money to…
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Millionaire in waiting
A DANDENONG man was a multi-millionaire for a week without knowing it. The TattsLotto winner, who wants to remain anonymous, carried the 29 November draw…
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Mums fear DHS rules
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A DANDENONG barrister says newly-arrived mothers are reluctant to report family violence because they fear their children will be taken from them.…
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Depression spirits always high at our place
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 pipes…