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01 Sep 10 | REFUGEE children living in Wyndham will have a better shot at learning in their new country, with $200,000 being invested in a bilingual literacy program for Karen students.
The next generation of
01 Sep 10 | FEARS have been raised about structural and drainage issues at Werribee's Glen Orden Primary School just months ahead of its merger with Glen Devon.
The state and federal governments provided $7mil
01 Sep 10 | Neighbours meet
Pony rides were the order of the day at a 'meet your neighbours' event at Point Cook's new estate last week. More than 200 buyers visited Saltwater Coast and met their future neig
01 Sep 10 | PREVENTABLE accidents caused by taking shortcuts in the workplace cost the Victorian economy nearly $1billion in the past financial year.
Workplaces are being urged to consider the whopping $956mi
01 Sep 10 | POLICE have used a bean bag shotgun to subdue a man armed with a knife who threatened to stab officers in Mount Cottrell, near Melton.
Police allege that at 3.45pm last Wednesday, the 35-year-old
01 Sep 10 | TEACHERS took a back seat at Manor Lakes College in Wyndham Vale on Monday.
However, it was all in the name of the environment. The school was one of hundreds across the country to host an event fo
01 Sep 10 | FOUR new peak weekday services are being added to the Werribee line
under timetable changes announced last Monday.
From October 10, two new morning peak services will run every weekday from La
01 Sep 10 | THREE MacKillop College year 11 students with an eye for business have won major prizes as part of a Victoria University competition.
The I Plan A Business (iPAB) awards are an incentive for busin
01 Sep 10 | CREATING jobs and stepping up the push for more GPs in the city are at the top of the wish-list for Wyndham Council's new chief executive Kerry Thompson.
As chairwoman of the Western Transport Alli
01 Sep 10 | TWO mothers have made pleas for more schools in the western suburbs for autistic children.
Tarneit mother Maureen Sepulveda has a nine-year-old autistic son who attends Western Autistic School in
01 Sep 10 | PARENTS went into a panic after schools were locked down during a police standoff with a man in Hoppers Crossing.
Police said they received a distress call from a man, 27, about noon last Friday
01 Sep 10 | SHE may be small, but Isabella Yoseski has a big voice.
The Hoppers Crossing eight-year-old has impressed the judges of Melton Junior Idol, who awarded her first place in the singing competition.
01 Sep 10 | Mr Vickers-Willis added the resurfacing of a section of Point Cook's Boardwalk Boulevard, which was first promised two years ago, was only now being done.
The forum was told $3million of improvem
01 Sep 10 |
THREE people have been charged over the death of a man in Hoppers Crossing.
Werribee woman Elizabeth Downie, 36, Melbourne West man Dean Maes, 30, and Spotswood man Calum Fitton, 41, were reman
01 Sep 10 | TWO mothers have made pleas for more schools in the western suburbs for autistic children.
Tarneit mother Maureen Sepulveda has a nine-year-old autistic son who attends Western Autistic School in
01 Sep 10 | IT may only be three years old, but Point Cook's VIEW club has already landed the honour of hosting the 50th anniversary of the Smith Family's initiative for women.
More than 60 members from clubs
01 Sep 10 | As the Banner continues its profile of the characters who make up Point Cook and surrounds,
reporter JANE BARRACLOUGH meets equal opportunity advocate Omar Farah
LINDSAY Tanner may no longe
01 Sep 10 |
WYNDHAM'S peak lobby group has called for immediate action to ease the city's traffic woes.
Committee for Wyndham chairman Peter Hudson has written an open letter to Prime Minister Julia Gi
01 Sep 10 | A CONTROVERSIAL decision to replace a promised wetland with more housing hinged on a tiny bird occasionally seen around Point Cook and Werribee South, the Banner can reveal.
The Point Cook Coasta
25 Aug 10 | WERRIBEE Cemetery has dismissed renewed concerns over its unmade and often muddy pathways.
It comes after a November 2006
petition submitted by a group of residents to then managers, the Wynd
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