Community Calendar: Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay
Holiday options galore
Highpoint will be a hive of activity in the lead-up to the Easter school holidays. Highpoint Shopping Day on Thursday offers activities...
Cycling: Miles DaCosta gets home in road race torture
Miles DaCosta won a torturous A-grade race in the fifth round of the Footscray Cycling Club’s winter road season.
The race, which doubles as the...
Hot Opels hit Australia
German car maker Opel has only been in Australia since September 2012 and in its early days seems to be struggling to be noticed...
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Art deco delight
Cold-blooded passion
As a child, Adam Sapiano loved being in touch with Australian fauna, but he never dreamed he'd work with its inhabitants up close."Growing up,...
Hobsons Bay Council rejects $1.5m offer for Altona foreshore car park
HOBSONS Bay council has refused a developer’s offer of $1.5 million to address a shortfall of 80 car parks resulting from a proposed restaurant development...
Party house daubed with tags
By Goya Dmytryshchak
Police have confirmed Menace To Society tags were sprayed inside an Altona holiday rental trashed last month and there were “commonalities” with...
Subbie does the rounds
Retired champion racehorse Subzero did a lap of Hobsons Bay schools last week.
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Around the Bay: Bikes join production line for charity
ALTONA’S Toyota plant and Port Melbourne office aim to recruit 300 employees for the Bupa Around the Bay bike ride to raise money for...
Sky’s the limit in search for diabetes cure
Brady Clarke is taking a big plunge into fund-raising for diabetes research.
Mr Clarke, who works at Lonely Planet in Footscray, will this Saturday jump...
Thousands in Hobsons Bay join unemployment queue
HOBSONS Bay's jobless queue has blown out to 2500 people, sending unemployment soaring to 6.6percent in Altona.New small-area labour market figures from the federal...
Family friend has a growth spurt
Is the tribe becoming too big for the faithful family sedan? Look no further than the Subaru Liberty Exiga seven-seater wagon.Based on the Liberty...
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Since its last AFL game, the Whitten Oval’s crowd capacity has been reduced to about 10,000. Next...
Newcomers give Altona a second-half fright
ALTONA survived a wild encounter with newly-promoted Mentone to win 6-5 and get their Hockey Victoria men's state league 1 season off to a...
Baseball Victoria: Newport Rams lose perfect pitch
Newport Rams let a match-winning lead slip in their 6-5 loss to Essendon Bombers in the Baseball Victoria summer league division 1 at Boeing...
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Fire destroys abandoned Braybrook house
A Braybrook house was destroyed by fire late yesterday afternoon.
Firefighters arrived at the single-storey weatherboard house on Middleton Court about 4.30pm on Monday, November...
