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SKY High advocates hit rock bottom
PARENTS pushing for a new high school in the Yarraville area say they have hit a brick wall with the current government. The Seddon, Kingsville,…
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Hunt for lost Newport husky: Rusty nails support on net
A Facebook campaign to find a Siberian husky (pictured) lost or stolen from Newport has snowballed, with the Help Find Rusty page receiving 1896 ‘likes’…
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Link to autism ‘breakthrough’
A RARE disorder has been linked to autism, according to the mother of Victoria’s only known adult sufferer. Seaholme resident Maree Kinniburgh, whose daughter has…
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Western suburbs truck opponents confronting ‘wall of indifference’
A WESTERN Suburbs MP is demanding an inquiry into the impact of freight trucks on residential streets, including the thousands of trucks travelling daily through…
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Truck battle: Footscray, Yarraville locals raise mighty racket against rat runners
FOOTSCRAY and Yarraville residents, fed up with trucks ‘rat-running’ through residential streets to avoid paying tolls, are venting their frustration by blockading one of the…
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Family violence: brush strokes a healing balm for Little Picassos
CHILDREN exposed to family violence have a chance to begin healing thanks to a new grant to Women’s Health West (WHW). The $5200 Commonwealth Bank…
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Ex-sailor hits high Cs with Trade Union Choir
WHEN Footscray’s Bob Roest starts singing there’s really no stopping him. The former sailor might be more at home on the high seas than hitting…
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100 Story Building project: Inner-west gets space to spin a yarn
BUDDING writers will soon have a space to call their own thanks to an initiative dubbed the 100 Story Building project. The project will help…
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Hard lessons
Children joined Diggers in an emotional Remembrance Day service in Newport on Sunday. Among Newport RSL members who paid their respects was George Ford, 94…
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MP frets over ‘abseiling’ Newport flour mill graffitists
A LOCAL MP is calling for security to be lifted on the Newport flour mill site before a graffiti vandal is injured “abseiling” down the…
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In lock-step with carers at Maribyrnong celebration walk
THE selfless generosity of Victoria’s 700,000 carers will be marked this Sunday with a celebration walk at Maribyrnong’s Coulson Gardens. Ambassador Moira Kelly (pictured) says…
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Altona SES: Saviours’ turn in the sun
ONE of the original members of Altona SES, Craig MacCallum well remembers the 1983 storm which lashed the suburb, downing dozens of trees and leaving…
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Out of Africa: Immigrants rise and shine in west
In August, 100 of the most influential African Australians were honoured for their contribution to Australian society in a ceremony at Sydney’s Opera House. The…
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Maribyrnong, Hobsons Bay mental health care wait times grow
MENTAL health patients in Melbourne’s west, including those from Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay, are languishing in waiting rooms with one in three waiting more than…
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All-female leadership team tipped for Hobsons Bay Council
BARRING upsets, Angela Altair is tonight expected to be elected mayor of Hobsons Bay, with Luba Grigorovitch as deputy. It would be the first all-female…
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