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State dials up phone reception
High-tech gadgetry will be used to help improve mobile phone coverage on the Regional Rail Link from next year. Last week the state government, Telstra,…
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Council feels budget squeeze
Hobsons Bay council has released its draft 2017-18 budget which shows rates and waste charges each increasing by two per cent, with the council saying…
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Funding score for sport
Resident soccer and cricket clubs at JT Gray Reserve in Williamstown North have scored $650,000 in state funding towards a new $4million pavilion that aims…
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Fast teen takes on the world
Williamstown North teenager Chandler Cooper is living the dream after being contracted for the 2017 Moto3 Junior World Championship in Europe. The 16-year-old, who started riding dirt…
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Footscray barbers hair for the long haul
As Footscray undergoes rapid change, some things are hair to stay. Gentrification’s march is yet to overtake the suburb’s hairdressers and barbershops that provide lasting…
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Cinema complex and apartments for former Forges site
A new cinema, supermarket and shops topped by a nursing home and more than 200 apartments will be built in the centre of Footscray under…
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My Place: Abbie Kinniburgh
Seaholme’s Abbie Kinniburgh is helping organise next month’s national conference for people with disorders of the corpus callosum, such as herself. She speaks with Goya…
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Dawn service
Hundreds turned out to pay their respects at the Anzac Day dawn service of the embattled Williamstown RSL. From the tiniest members of the 4th…
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Avid knitters wanted: Melton council
Wanted – avid knitters. Donations of 500 knitted items are being sought from across Melton to help keep people warm this winter. Knitters are being…
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End for politicians age of ‘entitlement’
State politicians could be forced to pay back wrongly claimed entitlements and second residence allowances could be capped in a bid to stamp out a…
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Western Bulldogs Leadership Project diary
By Brandon Rogers On April 20, I and the other Melton council group in the Leadership Project watched presentations from four different foundations that all represented…
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Council slams state as truck bans split communities
Hobsons Bay council has lashed out at the state government over its West Gate Tunnel project, saying it has pitted residents north and south of…
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Seddon cricket bat factory conversion up for grabs
The owners of a slice of Seddon history knew they were on a good wicket when they made their home in a converted cricket bat factory.…
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Budding Footscray author delves into mystery
Intergalactic adventures and a marvelous mystery await readers of the debut publication of a budding Footscray author. Lucas Nguyen, 10, said he had never been an…
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Stolen plaques replaced and memorial restored for Anzac Day
More than 100 bronze plaques stolen from the Footscray Memorial Garden have been replaced in time for Anzac Day. Thieves stole 111 bronze memorial plaques…
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