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Benjamin Millar Kelly Conroy has battled atrocious conditions to spearhead a monumental effort in the community campaign for high-voltage power lines planned to run through Moorabool to be buried underground. Ms Conroy took off at 7am on Friday on a run to raise awareness of AusNet’s plan to install a series of 85-metre towers carrying high-voltage lines from beyond Ballarat through Moorabool and Melton and into Sydenham. Her original plan was to run 160 kilometres to highlight just how far the wires will travel and how much of the landscape will be impacted. Facing fierce winds throughout ...

Benjamin Millar Melton pupils will receive a helping hand developing their literacy skills thanks to a new Vinnies reading club starting up in the area next week. Beginning July 28, the Melton Education Program will run as a free reading club from 3.45-5pm Wednesdays throughout the school year. The Melton Education Program has a focus on the four pillars of literacy – reading, writing, speaking and listening. It will have the capacity to support 30 pupils from different primary schools in the area and a range of different cultural backgrounds. St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria education ...

Benjamin Millar and Goya Dmytryshchak Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Monday as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days. With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm. Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said. Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10. Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong today enter the second ...

by Alesha Capone and Benjamin Millar UPDATE: The Coles at Sanctuary Lakes Shopping Centre and the Sanctuary Lakes Hotel have both been added to the list of COVID exposure sites. The hotel, at 280 Point Cook Road, Point Cook, has been named a tier one exposure site after a person with the virus attended the venue on Tuesday between 12pm and 9pm. Anyone who attended the hotel within this timeframe has been advised to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure. The Coles, at 300 Point Cook Road, Point Cook, has been named as a tier two exposure site after a person with the i...

Benjamin Millar Two Ballan locations have been listed as tier one exposure sites after being visited by a COVID-positive removalist team from NSW. People who visited the Mobil and McDonalds stores on the westbound side of the Western Freeway between 5pm and 7pm Thursday, July 8, have been ordered to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from the exposure. The exposure sites include the bathroom and shower facilities at the Mobil service station. Victoria’s Covid commander Jeroen Weimar said on Tuesday that the removalist crew may not have adequately followed strict restrictions ...