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02 Feb 12 | School isn’t peachy for everyone. Lots of kids struggle to cope and end up dropping out. Youth Connections aims to address the barriers keeping kids from completing their education.
02 Feb 12 | By day, they’re fixing your fridge, tallying your tax or teaching your kids their times tables. By night they slip into a parallel universe. Benjamin Millar meets the ‘hidden artists’ of the western suburbs.
Braybrook girl escapes attacker
02 Feb 12 | A 14-year-old girl Braybrook fought off an attacker who indecently assaulted her on South Road last night.
City of Maribyrnong's stars honoured
01 Feb 12 | THE dedication of 12 inspiring individuals and groups, who work tirelessly to improve community life, was recognised as part of the Australia Day celebrations in Footscray.  | Peter Somerville: Spruiker of ... | Malcolm Daubney: Sharp focus on ...
Smiles make the years fly
01 Feb 12 |  CHILDCARE worker Vicki Williams came for the children and stayed for the smiles and laughter.
Janice Simpson's tales from the saddle
01 Feb 12 | YARRAVILLE'S Janice Simpson says cycling 4000 kilometres around Europe is one of the most relaxing things she's ever done.
'Armpit' Skinner Reserve no longer on the nose
01 Feb 12 | BRAYBROOK'S Skinner Reserve was once described as a "shaved armpit of a ground".
Drunk Mums coming to a laneway near you
01 Feb 12 | THE musical landscape has changed, perhaps forever, for fledgling indie rock band Drunk Mums.
Take-two: Nicholson Street Mall defects to be fixed
01 Feb 12 | CONTRACTORS responsible for the $4.5 million redevelopment of Footscray's Nicholson Street Mall could be made to repave parts of it.
01 Feb 12 | FROM grilled beef wrapped in vine leaves to dancing dragons, central Footscray was filled with the sights, sounds and smells of Vietnamese culture on Sunday.  | GALLERY: East Meets West Lunar New Year ...
Train passengers at vandals' mercy
01 Feb 12 | VANDALISM accounted for three out of every four lift breakdowns at Footscray and Laverton railway stations last year, leaving disabled and elderly commuters stranded.
01 Feb 12 | THE western suburbs face an education crisis for students with autism unless drastic steps are taken to boost training and services.
Peter Somerville: Spruiker of the Maribyrnong
01 Feb 12 | 'It'd be wonderful if we could save more buildings along the river [in the Defence site]. We could showcase that history and it'd be a real drawcard for walkers and cyclists, and schoolchildren could  | Malcolm Daubney: Sharp focus on ... | City of Maribyrnong's stars ...
When fireworks trigger memories of conflict
01 Feb 12 | THE year Kurdish refugee and now Footscray resident Rali Hamasalih was born, Iraqi forces under Saddam Hussein killed more than 10,000 people in a poison-gas attack on the town of Halabja.
On your marks for annual Williamstown swim
01 Feb 12 | PERFECT sunny weather greeted the 350 competitors who took to the water in Williamstown last Thursday morning for the 22nd annual Australia Day Swim.
Malcolm Daubney: Sharp focus on vision-impaired
01 Feb 12 | FIFTY years after arriving on Australian shores, Malcolm Daubney now has cause for a double celebration.   | Peter Somerville: Spruiker of ... | City of Maribyrnong's stars ...
01 Feb 12 | SHARON Walsh lives and breathes Altona – it's her life.
WIN! Pentax Q Travel Competition
30 Jan 12 | To celebrate the release of the Pentax Q - the world’s smallest and lightest interchangeable lens camera - Pentax and the Weekly are giving you the chance to win the ultimate luxury travel experience.
26 Jan 12 | THE face of the Maribyrnong River, Peter Somerville, has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in this year’s Australia Day honours.
Ferris a big wheel in Angry festival
25 Jan 12 | UNDERBELLY actor Tim Ferris is part of a production team bringing the 10th Angry Film Festival to Melbourne’s west.
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