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Jarryd has all the right moves
So you think you can dance? Whether you know your way around the dance floor, or think you have two left feet, celebrity dancer Jarryd…
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West’s best light up comedy fest
Magic tricks and John Farnham tracks are just part of the fun as inner-west artists unveil their Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows. Hayley Butcher’s comedy…
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Mixed response to Yarraville and Footscray truck bans
A long fought battle to ban trucks on residential Yarraville and Footscray streets has been won but the transport industry and residents of adjacent suburbs…
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Blues club puts down new roots
The best-known blues club in Melbourne’s west has found a new home in Newport. The Way Out West (WOW) Roots Music Club, formerly at the…
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My Place: Craig Marshall
Newport’s Craig Marshall will this month abseil 27 storeys down Melbourne’s St James building for Anglicare’s Altitude Shift event to raise money for young people…
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Local election voting fines top $1 million
Fines totalling more than $1 million have been issued to 13,875 registered voters in Hobsons Bay and Maribyrnong alleged to have failed to vote in…
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Salvos fired in waste war
The Salvation Army in Altona is fearful it will be swamped with rubbish over Easter and is pleading with people to stop using its local…
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Spotswood developer wins five year battle
A developer has gained approval for a five-storey apartment complex in Spotswood, after five years battling residents, Hobsons Bay council and the state’s planning tribunal.…
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Epic ‘Live for Lily’ ride tackles childhood cancer
When Maribyrnong College teacher Aaron Hester lost his nine-year-old daughter Lily to cancer in 2014, he felt his whole world crumble. Yet from his sense…
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Homeless housing roll-out nears full approval
The roll-out of 57 new units to house the homeless in Footscray and Maidstone is all but assured with approvals in place for six of…
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Footscray to CBD veloway cautiously backed
A new elevated cycling route from the Maribyrnong River to the CBD has been cautiously welcomed by some cyclists, but panned by others as “green-washing”.…
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Rostered On reveals trials and tribulations of retail
Do you work here? The trials and tribulations of working in retail are being aired for the world to see in a new web comedy…
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Western Bulldogs welcome newly arrived migrants to the west
Newly arrived migrants have been getting a kick out of their time in the west thanks to the Western Bulldogs. The 10th annual CALDplay Football…
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Candlelight vigil reclaims Footscray Park from violence
A candlelight vigil has been held to reclaim Footscray Park from gangs of violent thugs who have been preying on men after dark. Star Weekly…
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Parking fine blitz claims: ‘Book anything and everything’
Hobsons Bay council has rejected claims that parking officers have been told to increase the number of fines issued in order to meet a set…
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