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  • MAIN Game footy fundraiser returns

    MAIN Game footy fundraiser returns

    The MAIN Game is an event like no other this side of the Great Divide and returns to Castlemaine on…

  • Welcomer of babies

    Welcomer of babies

    For three decades Chris O’Higgins has welcomed newborn babies into the Kyneton and district community.The recently retired maternal and child…

  • A recipe for success

    A recipe for success

    Kyneton’s Ian Kohlman has made history as the first bloke to cook his way from the Kyneton Show to the…

  • Biggest Morning Tea returns to Plaistow

    Biggest Morning Tea returns to Plaistow

    Lilian and Peter Skilbeck are opening their gardens at the historic Plaistow Homestead to host a Biggest Morning Tea over…

  • Building rainbow bridges

    Building rainbow bridges

    An exhibition opened last week in Kyneton that brings together the voices of both young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and…

  • Love to sing?

    Love to sing?

    The Pollyphonics Choir has found its voice again after a year-long COVID-19 hiatus and is regrouping this Thursday in Woodend.Conducted…

  • Ready to roll for MS

    Ready to roll for MS

    Kyneton’s Carole Hemmings is ready to roll for the MS fundraiser event at Albert Park Lake. She will switch her…

  • Good for your soul

    Good for your soul

    Singing is making a comeback! Macedon Ranges Shire Council’s initiative #creativeencounters has funded several projects across the shire including a…

  • Great effort all round

    Great effort all round

    After a COVID-enforced hiatus in 2020, tin rattlers at the traffic lights and street walkers were back, collecting for the…

  • Friends raise dough for local baker in need

    Friends raise dough for local baker in need

    A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $50,000 for a local family in crisis. Castlemaine resident and founder of Trentham’s…

  • Make it good for Theo

    Make it good for Theo

    When Theo was born last year, Samantha Moore realised her family had joined other Ranges families that had a fight…

  • Austin's big ride

    Austin's big ride

    Community members have rallied around the family of Castlemaine youngster Austin Vearing in a bid to make ‘Austin’s Wish to…