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North Melbourne Rotary Club is back In action
Until recently, the North Melbourne Rotary Club has been back having face-to-face meetings, but it has been difficult to get into fundraising and general community activities.
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The community councillor
An educator, publican, family man and proud member of the Flemington-Kensington Bowls Club – you’d struggle to find a more community-minded councillor than Davydd Griffiths.
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Errol St’s Town Hall Hotel
The Town Hall Hotel was ordered to close its doors in 1904 because of a Liquor Licensing Board assessment of all the pubs in North Melbourne. Somehow, and there is no record of how this occurred, the pub survived and today it is one of the area’s most popular drinking spots.
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Humanities and tech collides in new production
Humanity and technology collide in new Arts House production Melbourne theatre company Chamber Made is readying to perform their new production SYSTEM_ERROR at the Arts House in the North Melbourne Town Hall.
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Digging done for Metro Tunnel mega machines
Four huge tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have finished 20 months of digging under Melbourne to create two nine-kilometre-long rail tunnels for the Metro Tunnel Project.
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Penni stays in her lane
North West City News caught up with Lucy and her pet Jack Russell, Penni, in Kensington.
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VANISH – who we are
In a quiet office nestled among cafes and apartments in North Melbourne, a small, dedicated family tracing team help people find relatives they have either never met or have not seen for decades.
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Laurie Shipp – a childhood in North Melbourne in the depression years
The following article is based on memoirs that Laurie Shipp completed in 2011. He died in April 2020.
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Healthy habits, happy animals
How do you get a giant tortoise to step on to scales to be weighed? How does an elephant learn to lift its feet for a nail trim? How can we teach a gorilla to present their shoulder for an injection?
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Community consultation (part one)
“Not a very sexy topic, but very important!”
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Heritage meets high-rise in new West Melbourne apartment project
Plant giveaway for residents impacted by West Gate Tunnel works
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