Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessor, the Werribee Banner
40 years ago
May 21, 1975
Relief seems ahead, at last, for people owning blocks of land supposedly prone to a degree of flooding, with the state government, the Board of Works and State River officials giving to council the green light to issue permits for housing outside of limits of known flood levels.
30 years ago
May 22, 1985
Contaminated water from the Builders Transport fire is being pumped through the sewer system to the Board of Works farm at Werribee. Up to three million litres of the water used to fight the fire will be disposed of at the farm. The water is being stored in concrete tanks and biologically degraded.
20 years ago
May 17, 1995
Wyndham council has called for an urgent report on safety aspects of Heaths Road, Hoppers Crossing, in the Werribee Plaza area. The stretch has become notorious in recent years for accidents involving pedestrians, including two residents of the Glendale Hostel for the Aged.
10 years ago
May 18, 2005
Wyndham council has “blood on its hands” and will be held responsible by residents for any more deaths along several dangerous stretches of road, says an angry Tarneit resident. Derrimut Road residents, fed up with the road carnage at their front doorsteps, rallied against the council last week following the funeral of a motorcyclist.
