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09 Mar 10 | Homicide Squad detectives have charged two men in relation to the death of a 43-year-old man at Flemington on Tuesday morning.
09 Mar 10 | MOONEE Valley residents continue to clean up after freak storms on the weekend.
| GALLERY: Freak storms hit Moonee Valley
09 Mar 10 | MOONEE Valley Council has voted to adopt the controversial Fairbairn Park master plan, despite months of heated debate.
09 Mar 10 | SMOKERS will continue to have free rein in open spaces following Moonee Valley Council’s decision not to explore the viability of smoking bans in public precincts.
09 Mar 10 | NIDDRIE man Jack Taig describes his relationship with wife Nancy as his own little slice of "heaven".
09 Mar 10 |
THE Save Fairbairn Park group was remarkably well behaved when it packed the public gallery on March 2 for the Moonee Valley Council debate on the new master plan for the park.
Perhaps the gro
09 Mar 10 | Community groups must submit requests by noon on the Thursday before publication. Keep to 25 words or less. Send to PO Box 740, Niddrie 3042; phone 83185791; fax 83185769; or email fcnvicatwest@fairfa
09 Mar 10 | NINETIES boy band The Backstreet Boys made a comeback last week with a short performance at the Victoria Racing Club's Beautiful Girls Fashion Lunch.
The event launched the Autumn Racing Carnival
09 Mar 10 |
EXPERTS say 60 per cent of Australians who have glaucoma don't know it.
This week - Glaucoma Awareness Week - is aimed at increasing people's awareness of the disease, which is the second
09 Mar 10 | ASCOT Vale resident Ken Zeffert is copping it sweet.
He is one of the latest recruits to join Victoria Police.
The 27-year-old has been training at the police academy in Glen Waverley for the p
09 Mar 10 | VETS are warning dog owners to make sure pets are up to date with vaccinations as a new wave of deadly parvovirus spreads through Australia.
Recent hot and humid weather has contributed to the outb
09 Mar 10 |
KEILOR residents are concerned how funds will be allocated and whether grounds will still be maintained at a high standard now that Keilor Cemetery is run by an umbrella trust.
They also fear j
09 Mar 10 | THE African Australian Women Association, the Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre, the Islamic Council of Victoria and Flemington's St Brendan's Primary School will share $20,000 in grants.
09 Mar 10 | AN Essendon man has gone to extraordinary lengths to seek attention and raise funds for the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
Formerly known as Alexander Stephen Oxford, the 20-year-ol
09 Mar 10 | MOONEE Valley Council has adopted the Moonee Ponds activity centre structure plan, designed to guide the development of the suburb in line with the State Government's Melbourne@5million agenda.
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09 Mar 10 | THE TEACHER
WHEN performing arts co-ordinator Jenni Coombs came to Bacchus Marsh Grammar in 2003 she arrived with a vision.
Ms Coombs had been involved with Wakakirri productions at both Ma
09 Mar 10 | CAST AND CREW
WHEN it comes to Rock Eisteddfod, Sunbury mother Loren Spiteri is happy to take a back seat to her daughter Jess.
Ms Spiteri's involvement with the event started when Jess was in
09 Mar 10 | For decades, the Rock Eisteddfod has given ordinary schoolchildren the chance to shine. After a lack of sponsorship saw the curtain close on the spectacular this year, the State Government late las
09 Mar 10 | WELL-KNOWN Melbourne Neapolitan singers Annamaria Colasanto and Nello Castellano will headline a concert to celebrate the cultural diversity of East Keilor and Avondale Heights.
Called The Concert
09 Mar 10 | Essendon student Dominique Blowes has danced her way to the top of this year's list of most promising VCE students.
The St Columba's College student, pictured, joins a group of young artists, desig