Little voices, loud futures
Pete Dawson
More than 400 children from schools and people from around the Mount Alexander (Leanganook) Shire turned up...
Local couple’s cancer pledge
Castlemaine couple Marianne and Ross Allan has pledged a significant investment to the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Foundation 'Pankind' to fast-track early detection...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Hot, or what?
There is a fever that gardeners catch once they have made their first successful hot compost...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel meadows
The good, the bad and the beautiful
In my work as a compost educator and volunteer on the YIMBY*...
Finding rites of passage
For the past 23 years, a group of men from Castlemaine has been running rites of passage weekends out in the local...
Interns create memorial garden
Earlier this month a team of eight young interns launched their design for a new Memorial Garden, to be built at Edgar’s...
For the next generation
Connecting Country is co-hosting a National Tree Day community planting with Mount Alexander Shire Council and Post Office Hill Action Group on...
The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
When I go out door-knocking with our YIMBY* composters, looking for households to offer us weekly buckets of food scraps, I am...
Feeling the heat?
It can be hard to stay warm during these winter months, and let’s face it, it can be hard to make it...
A true ‘people person’
Malmsbury Pharmacy is officially home to Victoria's Pharmacy Assistant of the Year – and regular customers are not surprised.
Radiothon returns
Castlemaine’s award-winning station MainFM is getting amped up for its annual Radiothon and looking for support.
Bring the...
Hop to it and snap up book
Local author and illustrator Trace Balla has created a new graphic novella to raise funds to support the Red Box Wildlife Shelter...
