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MEDIA RELEASE: New art program to support people with dementia

Moonee Valley City Council is thrilled to introduce an innovative new art program that aims to support people in the early stages of dementia, Art Mondo. Modelled after successful museum and gallery programs across Australia and globally, Art Mondo is set to revolutionise support for those living with dementia, and the people who care for…

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MEDIA RELEASE: One, Two, Tree set to green the west

Moonee Valley City Council is leading the charge to plant more trees in the west, with the launch of its One, Two, Tree campaign. In consultation with Greening the West – a consortium of western councils, facilitated by Greater Western Water – Moonee Valley City Council has launched One, Two, Tree to encourage the community…

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MEDIA RELEASE: Counting down to Festival lift-off

Photo: Moonee Valley After Dark headliners, Electric Fields. We’re just five sleeps away from the return of the mighty – and mightily missed! – Moonee Valley Festival this Saturday, 24 February! Six years since it last took over Queens Park, Moonee Valley Festival is ready to make up for lost time, with double the fun…

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MEDIA RELEASE: A field of dreams to honour an Essendon baseballer

Ten years in the making, the Chris Lane Field will be officially opened on Saturday, 17 February at Boeing Reserve in Strathmore Heights. In 2009, a teenage baseball player named Chris Lane left Australia on a scholarship to pursue his dream of playing baseball in the United States. Four years later, on 16 August 2013,…

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MEDIA RELEASE: End the waiting for rail link: Moonee Valley Mayor

Melbourne Airport continues to delay the much-needed Airport Rail Link by insisting on an underground train station at the airport, says Moonee Valley City Council Mayor, Cr Pierce Tyson. Mayor Tyson has called on the airport to end its impasse and drop impractical and obstructionist demands for an underground station. His call comes after Melbourne…

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Festivals ready to ignite the Valley

The City of Moonee Valley launches its 2024 festival season with electric and eclectic lineups across major events in February and March. Multi award-winning Aboriginal Australian electronic duo Electric Fields will lead a sizzling lineup when the Moonee Valley Festival makes a triumphant return to Queens Park in Moonee Ponds on Saturday, 24 February 2024….

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Another step towards a lighter carbon footprint

Technology that generates renewable energy from waste is on the horizon for the City of Moonee Valley.  By 2026 Moonee Valley will now be one of three Councils (alongside Monash and Melton) that will send waste that would otherwise go to landfill to a brand new, cutting-edge ‘gasification’ plant. Construction for the Laverton North facility…

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Final boarding call for Melbourne Airport

Moonee Valley Mayor, Cr Pierce Tyson, has called on Melbourne Airport to meet its social responsibility and immediately get on board with the building of the Melbourne Airport Rail Link. Mayor Tyson’s call comes after Federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King today reaffirmed $5 billion in federal funding towards the construction of the long-awaited rail link,…

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Celebrating ‘neighbourhood spirit’ in Moonee Valley

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Moonee Valley Neighbourhood Spirit Awards.  Do you know someone who makes a positive difference in your neighbourhood? Someone who is always going that extra yard to help a neighbour, a charity, a sports club? Someone who just makes Moonee Valley a better place to be? Then it’s time…

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Cr Tyson re-elected as Mayor

Rose Hill Ward Councillor Pierce Tyson was tonight re-elected as the Mayor of Moonee Valley. This is the first time in Moonee Valley’s history that a Mayor has been re-elected for a consecutive Mayoralty within a Council term. Mayor Pierce Tyson, who is also the youngest serving Mayor in Moonee Valley’s history, said he was…