Star Weekly looks back at the pages of our predecessors.
40 years ago
December 7, 1982
Footscray’s botanical showpieces, Yarraville Gardens and Footscray Park, will soon look like deserts.
That’s the gloomy forecast by the council’s director of Parks and Garden Iain Ross, following the imposition of water restrictions by the Board of Works last week.
30 years ago
December 9, 1992
Engineers of western suburbs councils fear that Melbourne’s inner beaches and the Maribyrnong River might be closed to the public for much of the summer holiday period because of raw sewage flowing down the river, into the bay.
20 years ago
December 11, 2002
Maribyrnong council will lobby the state government to guarantee the city’s concerns are taken into account about the effect a proposal to deepen Port Phillip Bay shipping channels to the Port of Melbourne will have on traffic in Maribyrnong.
10 years ago
December 5, 2012
Long-standing Yarraville residents say the trucking industry has been misleading the community over the history of truck traffic through the area.
