Community News

  • Cart carpenters wanted

    Cart carpenters wanted

    Kyneton resident Paul Strang has put out a call for helping hands to restore an old baker’s cart of great…

  • Kyneton Tea of Earth entrepreneur hailed a local business hero

    Kyneton Tea of Earth entrepreneur hailed a local business hero

    Kyneton business owner Rebecca Moore says her local Australia Post team had been friendly faces during the pandemic when she…

  • Learn all about bicycle repair

    Learn all about bicycle repair

    Learn all about basic bicycle maintenance at the next Castlemaine and Surrounds Repair Cafe on Sunday. A bicycle expert will…

  • Art with heart

    Art with heart

    Grade three/four students at St Mary’s Primary School Castlemaine have been working on an art collaboration with Castlemaine Health this…

  • Café with a heart of gold

    Café with a heart of gold

    It would be no surprise if one day Kyneton’s ‘Little Swallow Café’ was renamed the ‘Big Heart Café’! The generosity…

  • Come join the choir

    Come join the choir

    There are many benefits attached to choir singing – it creates a strong sense of community and social inclusion. It…

  • Passionate makers of jam

    Passionate makers of jam

    Recipes for jam always look simple and the first-time jam maker is often blessed with beginner’s luck. As you get…

  • Refugee film screening fundraiser at Chewton

    Refugee film screening fundraiser at Chewton

    Chewton Film Society in partnership with Rural Australians for Refugees is presenting a fundraising event at the Chewton Senior Citizens…

  • Positive planting

    Positive planting

    New native trees and plants have spread their roots at Kyneton Primary School. Students in the school’s Gardening and Sustainability…

  • Edgars Mission calls on ewe

    Edgars Mission calls on ewe

    A sassy three-legged lamb named Snow White and her vision-impaired friend Willy Wonka are the beloved ambassadors of Edgar’s Mission’s…

  • Pandemic impacts on mental health

    Pandemic impacts on mental health

    A new door-to-door mental health and wellbeing survey has found that one in four householders in the Macedon Ranges said…

  • Festival to celebrate ‘Jubilee Gold’

    Festival to celebrate ‘Jubilee Gold’

    ‘Jubilee Gold’ is the celebration theme for Kyneton’s Daffodil and Arts Festival its 50th year in 2022 from September 1-11….