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Cavalier spaniels kings for a day
Cavaliers will be letting their fur down every month at Brooklyn’s new dog park. The Cavalier Meet-Up in Melbourne’s West group was established in 2016…
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Newport two-hour parking backflip
Hobsons Bay council has backflipped on plans to introduce two-hour parking restrictions around Newport train station after resident and commuter complaints. Councillors last December endorsed…
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Altona beach weekend for all abilities
A beach weekend for people living with a disability will be held at Altona this month. West Footscray-based Independence Australia, a social enterprise supporting people…
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Shellfish warning for Hobsons Bay due to algae
Recreational shellfish collectors are being warned not to eat shellfish from Hobsons Bay after a marine algal bloom was detected off Port Melbourne beach. Blooms…
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Plea to protect world-listed wetlands
Documentary maker Wain Fimeri has raised concerns about people crossing a sandbar over Laverton Creek at Altona and accessing world-listed wetlands. The sandbar next to…
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Plans revealed for Pier Street servo site
Plans to build three five-storey apartment blocks comprising 57 dwellings on an old Altona petrol station site have been lodged with Hobsons Bay council. The…
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Seventy years of love
Altona North couple Mary and William Robinson will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. The two, both 90, met while ice skating at the…
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Food Bytes with Sarah Patterson
FB: How would you rate yourself as a cook? ME: Oh, pretty ordinary. I’m OK just for a few things. I sort of went through I stage…
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Altona Meadows’ Carmel Walker honoured
Altona Meadows’ Carmel Walker has received an Order of Australia Medal for helping train doctors and midwives to serve the Pacific Islands. Ms Walker has…
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Hobsons Bay honours its top citizens
An environmental volunteer and a football coach and Down syndrome advocate have been honoured in the Hobsons Bay Citizen of the Year awards. Williamstown’s Marilyn…
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Motorists warned as parking sensors switch on
Motorists who overstay parking time limits are at greater risk of being fined since Maribyrnong council installed parking sensors in Footscray CBD. The new regime…
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Maribyrnong Council honours Civic Awards winners
Seddon Deadly Sins cafe co-owner Chris Gooden has been recognised as Maribyrnong council’s 2019 Citizen of the Year. The 2019 Maribyrnong Civic Awards recognised local…
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Bulmans Road on the radar
Melton traffic congestion is on the agenda for VicRoads and an interchange at Bulmans Road in Brookfield is one of the options being explored. Brookfield…
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Slow Food Farmers’ Market coming to Spotswood
The Slow Food Farmers’ Market is moving to Spotswood Kingsville RSL after more than 11 years at Abbotsford Convent. Slow Food Melbourne president Alison Peake…
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Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual to be crowned
The competition will be fierce when contestants from around the country and overseas converge at Williamstown next month for the Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual…
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