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Joseph Tawadros live in Woodend
Experience the musical brilliance of Joseph Tawadros in Woodend this September long weekend. Prepare to be enchanted as this world-renowned oud virtuoso fills the intimate setting of St Ambrose Church with his mesmerising music on Saturday, September 28, from 1pm to 2pm. Renowned for his masterful blending of Arabic, jazz, and classical influences, Tawadros has…
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Harcourt Lions roar to MCDFNL victory
Harcourt, Newstead and Maldon Football Netball Clubs are celebrating this week after their sides achieved premiership success at the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football Netball League grand final showdowns at Princes Park, Maryborough on Saturday. Meanwhile Trentham FNC’s senior football side was unable to complete a fairytale ending to their season after facing off against Natte…
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Market gives back to local community
The Riddells Creek Farmers Market committee has handed over a $3000 cheque to Riddells Creek Primary School. The donation was made possible after reporting a healthy profit this financial year, due to the huge efforts of the volunteer team to grow the market over the past 12 months. Those efforts saw 12 markets, more than…
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Rangers girls make history
The forecast was for blustery winds, rain, possible hail, even snow, but the Kyneton U/12A Girls soccer team travelled up to Bendigo on Saturday morning thinking about nothing but the momentous match ahead of them. It was the first time a junior girls team from Kyneton has ever made it into a Grand Final and…
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Kyneton boys victorious
The Kyneton Rangers Under 12Cs have won their Grand Final 3-0 against a previously unbeaten Strathdale United. The Rangers started strongly with great passing by Zeke Scott and Flynn Osmond through midfield that led to several shots by players including Finn Bamford which narrowly missed. Strathdale hit back with a shot on goal, which was…
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Back-to-back champions!
Gisborne Soccer Club’s 13A girls team has taken out Football Victoria’s Metro Community League championship for the second year running. Playing at the top level for 13s in the Community Metro League, the team finished on top of the ladder for the North West region. They played in the grand final on Sunday September 15…
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CSC State Finals success!
Castlemaine Secondary College’s year 9/10 girls and year 9/10 boys soccer teams represented the local region at the state finals in Darebin on September 10 and 12. To make it there, the girls squad won every single match in the Sandhurst and Loddon Mallee Division without conceding a single goal. They continued this streak by…
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Top Gun team to rally
Father-son team Top Gun will take on the Shitbox Rally in a bid to raise funds for the Cancer Council. The pair behind the pilot caps and aviators is Kyneton resident David Tyquin and son, Calvin, from Malmsbury. Together they will tackle the challenge to achieve the unthinkable: driving their ‘shitbox’ across Australia via some…
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Get ready to shake, rattle and roll!
Melbourne’s premier live 13-piece Elvis spectacular comes to Castlemaine for the first time this November on their Summer Series tour of Victoria! Celebrating the life and music of The King, this show consistently sells out theatres and is not to be missed! Witness the fire of Elvis’s early Vegas years, your favourite singalong hits and…
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An afternoon in the bush
The Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club is once again gearing up for the Great Southern Bioblitz this weekend and encourages locals to get outdoors with their binoculars and cameras and document the flora, fauna and fungi in our region. The annual mega biodiversity survey provides a four-day snapshot of biodiversity in environments and countries across the…
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Gisborne’s new container deposit stop
Gisborne residents can now cash in their drink containers close to home, with the opening of a new CDS Vic refund point in the centre of town. Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas last week joined CEO of VicReturn Jim Round to open Gisborne’s new reverse vending machine at the Gisborne Village Shopping Centre. “Gisborne’s new reverse…
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One bin good, two bins better
Managing the outputs of a cool compost bin can get complicated, particularly if we only have one bin, where we can find ourselves with finished compost in the bottom and fresh food scraps at the top. Cool composting is so much easier if we have two bins that can rotate functions, an active one for…