Ease through your weekend by taking a look at our best stories across the network this week.
Brimbank & North West Star Weekly reported on the extensive storm damage across the region, as trees fell on cars and houses, and the SES were kept very busy.
One hundred people held a silent vigil for death-row dog Mylo (below) at the Sunshine offices of Brimbank Council.
Former Brimbank Stallions player Mathew Leckie made the region proud with a starring role at the World Cup.
The Sunbury & Macedon Ranges Star Weekly reported that Macedon Ranges health services faced dramatic changes as Cobaw Community Health considers cutting its operating hours and charging for services.
Mount Macedon’s Dominic Romeo (below) will mentor a group of young Aboriginal adults on a journey to Antarctica.
Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly reported that amazingly three women were unhurt as a car ploughed into a shop wall in Seddon.
The wild weather and massive winds caused havoc in Altona and Seaholme. We reported on the scene (below) and the aftermath.
Check out our Mega Gallery on the wild weather’s impact on Melbourne and beyond.
Yarraville residents were celebrating success in their campaign for a 40km/h zone on the busy truck route on Francis Street.
Melton & Moorabool Star Weekly reported that a gold mining licence has led to water quality concerns for Ballan, Pykes Creek and Melton.
A Bacchus Marsh resident (below) was left “shaking and scared” after a truck on Grant Street sideswiped her car and bent a door.
Tragedy struck a Roxburgh Park family as a seven-year-old boy died after being buried under snow at Mount Buller, as reported at the Northern Star Weekly.
In Wallan, the state government secured a site for the long-awaited ambulance station, and a new $109m MFB training centre is set to open in Craigieburn.
Wyndham Star Weekly spoke to a Hoppers Crossing man who was inspired to do something special to help Thai tsunami orphans.
St Vincent’s Health Australia announced its plans to open a private 112-bed hospital opposite Werribee Mercy Hospital by 2016.
Wyndham council announced that more than $1.6 million was spent over the past five years to remove illegal graffiti, and Star Weekly took a look back in time with our From the Archives series.
In Casey Weekly, we announced that Dandenong’s Marinko Matosevic lost an epic second round match at Wimbledon.
Casey Weekly Cranbourne reported that the Botanic Gardens in Cranbourne were holding special lecture for garden lovers.
Frankston Weekly told of reports that council recorded dramatic footage of drug addicts wheeling prams into a needle exchange clinic.
Knox Weekly reported that a woman was lucky to be alive after a tree crashed through her roof and pinned her in bed in Belgrave.
In Peninsula Weekly, we reported that a court was told the man who fatally stabbed Hastings jeweller Dermot O’Toole during a botched robbery was on parole.
Manchester Primary School students from Mooroolbark are class acts when it comes to turn trash into treasure, as reported in The Weekly Review Maroondah.
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