Community News
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Who’s for top dog?
Two border collies from Darraweit Guim are among the finalists to be named Top Office Dog in the feel-good campaign…
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See the new centre
Embracia Childcare and Kindergarten is Kyneton’s newest childcare centre located on the heritage-listed ‘Old Kyneton Hospital’ site. Construction of the…
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Student-led project to help homeless
An innovative new project aims to assist young people and families facing homelessness in Mount Alexander Shire, while also helping…
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The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Carbon cap and store There is a little trick you can do every time you add ingredients to your compost…
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Little voices, loud futures
Pete Dawson More than 400 children from schools and people from around the Mount Alexander (Leanganook) Shire turned up for…
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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…
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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 pile,…
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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* team,…
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Finding rites of passage
For the past 23 years, a group of men from Castlemaine has been running rites of passage weekends out in…
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Interns create memorial garden
Earlier this month a team of eight young interns launched their design for a new Memorial Garden, to be built…
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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…
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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,…