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Ted Bown is a Wyndham local and a member of the Sunshine Fly Casting Club. He recently stepped down from his role as the club president after serving for 20 years. He spoke to Sam Porter about his fishing and his community.

What’s your connection to the western suburbs?

I originally moved down here [to Werribee] in 1981 because I was in the Air Force, so I was s...


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The Western Football League women’s competition has expanded to 11 teams and will have a new finals structures.

The women’s season will include 16 home-and-away rounds with the number of participating teams increasing from nine to eleven this year.

North Footscray will field a side for the first time, while Laverton’s side will return from a one-year hiatus.

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Star Weekly looks back on the articles of our predecessors…

40 years ago

2 April, 1986.

A bearded bandit wearing a green cap menaced a Sunshine service station attendant with a knife early last week, just before robbing him of cash.

30 years ago

3 April, 1996

Labor Party powers are calling for the removal of Sunshine MP Ian Baker aft...


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Western Suburbs is hoping for a strong start to the FV state league 1 north-west season despite juggling things off field.

With facility upgrades underway at Ralph Reserve, Western Suburbs will spend a lot of time on the road early in the season.

The club’s Sasha Pete said it would be short term pain for long term gain.

“We’ve got a lot of refurbishments ...


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The third installment of the breaking dancing competition and hip-hop celebration Double Trouble will come to the streets of central Footscray on Saturday 28 March.

Funded through Maribyrnong Council’s Love Your West Grants Program and supported by local not-for-profit street dance organisation Cypher Culture, Double Trouble is described as a ‘Breakin’ event for the pe...


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