From the archives…

40 years ago.

From the archives – Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors.

40 years ago

February 15, 1983

An unlikely situation has arisen with a proposal facing Werribee Shire Council for the construction of an 11-metre high silo.

30 years ago

February 17, 1993

My disability stops me from doing things but it does not affect the way I think. I am not dumb. – Jim Asimakopolous explaining cerebral palsy to grade six pupils at St Peters Primary School.

20 years ago

February 19, 2003

Sections of the Werribee River are so infected with blue green algae that it is ‘unsafe for body contact’, a senior aquatic microbiologist has said.

10 years ago

February 20, 2013

Flights of fancy, who says flying has become mundane?