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Family fights planter box removal
A Yarraville family given until Friday to remove planter boxes in front of their home is petitioning Maribyrnong council to change its nature strip policy.…
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Give and take in Williamstown
Williamstown women Ali Campbell and Virginia Millard have established Australia’s first ‘Give.Take.Stand’ modelled on a German initiative called the Give Box. The stand, in the…
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VCAT allows five storeys at 501 site
A developer has won a battle against Maribyrnong council’s decision to cap a 198-unit project in Footscray at four storeys and force the inclusion of…
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Block party at Laverton and everyone’s invited
Laverton is holding a Block Party and the whole neighbourhood is invited. The street party – in Woods and Lohse streets – caps off two…
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Train doors separate child from family at Newport
A seven-year-old boy was left chasing a moving train at Newport Station while his terrified parents and other passengers in the carriage tried to desperately…
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Funds received for JK Grant Reserve pavilion
The state government has contributed $100,000 towards a new pavilion that will enable greater female participation in sports at Altona’s JK Grant Reserve. The project…
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New $1m play space for Footscray Park
Plans are almost complete for a new $1 million playground to be built on the banks of the Maribyrnong River. Draft concept plans show the…
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West tops state for jobless youth
Ten suburbs across Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay have the highest youth unemployment in the state, topping even the number of jobless in the Northern Territory…
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Ghost tours of Altona’s haunted homestead
Sarah Langhorne died in 1871, but many people claim to have seen her ghostly apparition peering from a window of Altona Homestead. The homestead, built…
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Website honours Footscray Anzacs
Frank McCoubrie’s body may not have come back from France’s Bullecourt battlefields, but his memory lives on, thanks to Footscray Historical Society. The society has…
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Crime waves differ across postcodes
Crime statistics from the inner-west reveal a tale of two cities. From the end of 2014 to last December 31, there was a 10.3 per…
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Dick Murdoch late to his own funeral
Even those who knew Dick Murdoch well couldn’t have predicted he’d be late to his own funeral. The strains of Frank Sinatra’s My Way filled…
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New policy to drive parking meters
Parking meters in Footscray and Yarraville will remain switched off for at least another month as Maribyrnong council seeks feedback on a new draft parking…
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Traffic nightmare to last 18 months
Commuters are bracing for 18 months of gridlock in the inner west as works get under way to fix a notorious freeway bottleneck. Hobsons Bay…
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Bandits terrorise Altona Meadows shop owners
Two masked men wielding a machete have terrorised a milk bar owner in Altona Meadows. The pair, also brandishing a baseball bat or pole, entered…
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