To mark 160 years of Dandenong Star Journal, PHILIP SALAMA-WEST is taking a then-and-now look at the people, places and events that have formed Dandenong’s modern history. This week, it’s the emotive issue of felling the area’s endemic, emblematic River Red Gums when they ‘stand…
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About Town: The Carleen quaddie and boom gates gone
The ‘Carleen quaddie’ Pakenham-based jockey Carleen Hefel is coming off a red-letter week. She single-handedly rode all four legs of the quaddie at Ballarat last…
