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Templestowe College is no longer going to offer its Montessori Adolescent Program.

These students finally found education that worked for them. Now their program is ending

A Montessori program at Templestowe College that has run since 2012 is being cut, which has upset students and parents.

  • Caroline Schelle

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Yum cha.
14/20

Golden Dragon Palace

Superb dim sum in a serene dumpling den.

A selection of Iranian dishes at Kitchen 55.
14.5/20

Kitchen 55

Where flavour and tradition are handled with equal regard.

Police gather in Templestowe in 1991 to begin a doorknock in search of clues to the abduction of Karmein Chan. Former officer Rod Phillips was the first on the scene when the crime was called in.

When Karmein Chan was abducted, this policeman was first at the scene

Retired cop Rod Phillips still has questions about the Mr Cruel theory. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a big call. How can they have a suspect when they haven’t even got here yet?’”

  • John Silvester
Manningham City Council.

Manningham City Council: What your candidates said

Voters in Manningham will choose nine people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
76 Wood Street, Templestowe VIC

Melbourne vendor-builder turns tidy profit on $2.4m reno at auction

A couple beat three young families for the four-bedroom family home in Templestowe that last sold in 2019 and has since had a transformative renovation.

  • Tom Carey
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A selection of Iranian dishes at Kitchen 55.
14/20

‘This frankly odd menu is one of the most exciting eating experiences I’ve had in ages’

Dani Valent gains an informal, intimate insight into Iranian home cooking in a low-key suburban shopping strip.

  • Dani Valent
Police outside the tobacco shop in Pier Street, Altona on Thursday.

Tobacco war: Five arrested over festive season firebombings

A police detective said the arrests hurt an unnamed criminal syndicate driving recent firebombings and claim police were “seeming to turn the corner” in combating the violence.

  • Lachlan Abbott
45 Gillies Street, Alfredton VIC 3350

Our 12 favourite homes for sale in Victoria right now

From an out-of-town retreat to park-front city living, we’ve rounded up the best homes on the market.

  • Jacqui Hammerton, Lou Sweeney and Larissa Dubecki
Interior designer and project manager Erica George and electrician and foreman Damon McKinnon renovated a mid-century home in Templestowe.

From overgrown and neglected to a renovated mid-century marvel

This modernist icon was once owned by an industrial designer, then an AFL coach and later sat dormant for years. But its latest custodians saw its potential.

  • Pauline Morrissey