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Yoga to unlock stress
An Altona yoga Instructor Shavita Kotak has gained an audience of 3000 by live streaming from her garage during the COVID-19 lockdown. The former financial…
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The Substation’s funding lifeline
The Substation arts venue has secured a record $1.2million in national arts funding during the coronavirus lockdown to ensure its survival. The Newport-based organisation has…
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Pollution checks a win for residents
A $120 million waste-to-energy plant at Laverton North will publish real-time emissions and implement other pollution-monitoring measures under a settlement reached before an appeal to…
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Western football league cancels season
By Ewen McRae There will be no senior football played in the Western Region Football League this season, with the board putting a line through…
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Concern grows over virus numbers
An infected worker at Grill’d in Highpoint shopping centre was among more than 100 new COVID-19 cases recorded over seven days, as the state government…
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Petition saves Aleppo tree
A planned roundabout at the western end of the Esplanade in Altona has been redesigned to save an historic Aleppo pine tree. It follows a…
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Days of independence
Robbie Cordier can’t wait for gigs to restart at the Altona Bowling Club, a stone’s throw from the home he can finally call his own.…
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Folk festival goes virtual
Melbourne’s Newport Folk Festival will be live streamed into lounge rooms this month. Director Michael Stewart said the program had been adapted for the COVID…
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Bollards to stop Seabrook rat run
By Goya Dmytryshchak Seabrook residents fighting to stop motorists using local streets as a rat run to dodge Point Cook Road traffic are celebrating a…
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Urban forest plan for Hobsons Bay
Hobsons Bay’s tree coverage will be increased to 30 per cent by 2040 to meet the definition of an urban forest. The draft Hobsons Bay…
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Driver licence testing resumes
Driver licence testing resumed on Monday with more than 200 staff employed to meet the coronavirus backlog. Tests were suspended on March 25, putting on…
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Nature strip garden gongs
Two Hobsons Bay residents are runners up in a competition to find Victoria’s best nature strip garden. Open Gardens Victoria named Susanna Starr of North…
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Community win for Ferguson Street crossing removal
Fears of a sky rail at North Williamstown station have been quashed, with the state government on Friday announcing the rail line will be lowered…
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Tree vandal attack ‘despicable’
Vandals have destroyed multiple elm trees in the Williamstown Botanic Gardens in what has been labelled a “despicable and senseless act“. Friends of Williamstown Botanic…
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Hellenic Hotel returns to pub roots
George Calombaris’ former Hellenic Hotel in Williamstown is set to “return to its Australian pub roots” after the signing of a new lease. Rustica Sourdough founder…
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