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One year ago.

Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors.

Nine years ago

March 25, 2014

Super A-Mart storeman Joe Etimani, of Craigieburn, is one of about 35 Somerton warehouse staff who have been locked out for two weeks, with negotiations over a pay rise bogged down in legal action.

Seven years ago

March 22, 2016

Hume has experienced a 43 per cent hike in gun crime in 12 months, according to the Crime Statistics Agency.

Five years ago

March 27, 2018

Ice-related ambulance call-outs in Hume have surged in recent years, with paramedics attending to more than 100 patients in 2016-17.

One year ago

March 22, 2022

Westmeadows residents are calling for Hume council or the state government to declare that “buffer land” between the closed Tullamarine landfill and existing houses can never be built on, after plans to build an industrial and residential precinct on the site were knocked back.

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