Hand crafted with love
Every Wednesday for the past 16 years, Tom Taft has bought his weekly fish and chips and made his way to his wife's grave...
Anzac radio programming
Castlemaine’s Radio88FM has a long association with Anzac Day events and programs and this Thursday's Anzac Day feature promises to be bigger than ever.
Radio...
Thinking globally, acting locally
Late last year, a group of 15 local residents banded together to form Mount Alexander Refugee Support to lend a hand to refugees during...
Compost in our autumn garden
Autumn in central Victoria is pretty spectacular. As the rains bring a flush of green and the nights cool, our summer plantings, still productive,...
Stories of service
Each Anzac Day, the Mount Macedon Memorial Cross provides a spectacular, evocative setting for one of the largest dawn services in Victoria.
This year it...
New community lunch partnership
Kyneton Community House is joining forces with Little Swallow cafe to bring a new dimension to the weekly Community Lunch program.
Little Swallow recently...
Housemates appear on SBS
Castlemaine's Cate Mercer will appear in an episode of SBS’s Insight program next week to talk about ‘convenient relationships’.
Cate shares a house with Hansraj...
Neurodiversity picnic and sensory disco
Neurodivergent community members and their allies are invited to get along to the Winters Flat Neurodiversity Picnic and Sensory Bubble Dance on Tuesday April...
One million containers and counting
In the past six months, the staff at the Chewton Service Station have sorted more than one million containers as part of the state...
Profile of a composter
This week we are taking a stroll around the Taradale garden of long-time Mount Alexander Shire councillor, Christine Henderson, and having a look under...
Celebrate contributions
"Often the achievements and contributions of women are under-acknowledged."
These are the words of Macedon Ranges disability advocate Shanleigh Meldrum who wants to be part...
Kyneton’s new senior sergeant
Frank Docherty has wasted no time getting to know the community in his new role as Kyneton Police Station's senior sergeant.
He aims to build...
