Community News

  • Kyneton up to the challenge

    Kyneton up to the challenge

    Kyneton High School is powering up for the Energy Breakthrough challenge this week. For weeks, students have worked together to…

  • Meet the author

    Meet the author

    Woodend Library will host a talk with Macedon Ranges author and pilot Kathy Mexted in celebration her latest book Take…

  • Invisible, persistent killer

    Invisible, persistent killer

    ‘Synthetic auxins’ are a group of herbicides that have been quietly killing off backyard and market gardens in our region…

  • Eleanor Bryant remembered

    Eleanor Bryant remembered

    Macedon Ranges residents have shown an outpouring of support for the family and community of Eleanor Bryant who died at…

  • Safe Space finds a home

    Safe Space finds a home

    A new facility in Castlemaine is offering a community led, non-clinical, inclusive and comfortable sanctuary to anyone who may be…

  • Drumming up interest

    Drumming up interest

    YIMBY composters teamed up with ‘Dig It’ MainFM program and Growing Abundance and took to the streets in the Castlemaine…

  • The best day of family country fun

    The best day of family country fun

    Round up the family on November 23 and head to Woodend Primary School’s Carlsruhe Country Fair. The kids play old-fashioned…

  • Woodend CFA to host open day

    Woodend CFA to host open day

    Woodend CFA is holding an open day at the fire station in Urquhart Street on Sunday from 10am to 2pm….

  • Market’s 20-year ‘backing local’ celebrations

    Market’s 20-year ‘backing local’ celebrations

    Kyneton Farmers Market has announced a special raffle for its upcoming 20th-anniversary celebrations on Saturday, with proceeds to be donated…

  • Award honour for Anwyn

    Award honour for Anwyn

    Local therapist Anwyn Stekerhofs of ‘Awakenings with Anwyn’ was acknowledged at the recent 2024 Australian Achiever Awards for the Health,…

  • Senior achiever awarded

    Senior achiever awarded

    Alan Moor has spent the past decade helping to fill the lives of older residents with interest and enjoyment. The…

  • There’s a fly in my compost

    There’s a fly in my compost

    Occasionally we get a distressed call at YIMBY informing us someone has fruit fly in their compost…Common names can be…