Community News
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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,…
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Feeling the heat?
It can be hard to stay warm during these winter months, and let’s face it, it can be hard to…
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A true ‘people person’
Malmsbury Pharmacy is officially home to Victoria’s Pharmacy Assistant of the Year – and regular customers are not surprised. Amanda…
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Radiothon returns
Castlemaine’s award-winning station MainFM is getting amped up for its annual Radiothon and looking for support. Bring the Noise is…
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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…