Employment
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$50,000 boost for Etty St concept
The transformation of Castlemaine’s old Etty Street college campus has achieved a significant new milestone with Friday’s announcement of $50,000 in state funding toward a guiding master plan. The Etty Street Precinct concept is poised to transform the old Castlemaine Secondary College site into a unique community facility featuring a specialty vehicle training centre and…
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Powercor’s new Kyneton depot
Construction is underway on a new $10M Powercor depot at Kyneton. The facility is being built on the same road as the existing one – at 44 Redesdale Road – but will be significantly larger. The depot will have improved office facilities, storage areas for equipment and fleet, and will support the future expansion of…
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Advocates for women
Half the Sky – How to Change the World is a powerful book that will make its way into the hands of many in the Macedon Ranges as part of International Women’s Day. The book explores barriers to gender equality for women across the world and each local Neighbourhood House has five copies to circulate,…
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Expansion planned for Gisborne Business Park
The future mapped for Gisborne Business Park could completely change the New Gisborne area it sits within but now the community can have its say. About 29 hectares of Rural Living Zone land has been earmarked for industrial and commercial development in a proposed amendment to the Draft Gisborne Business Park Development Plan. The plan…
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Kyneton U18 coach needed…VFL players set to assist
Kyneton Football Netball Club is widening its net in its search for an Under 18s coach for the 2019 Season. The yet -to-be-appointed coach will have excellent support from two of the club’s senior VFL players. Patrick McCarthy is listed with the North Melbourne Football Club’s VFL department and Max O’Sullivan is training with Carlton’s…
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World HQ for Kyneton
Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale has announced plans for a new $6 million world headquarters at Kyneton’s eastern gateway, opening in 2020. Envisioned by founder and director of Rationale, Richard Parker, the facility will serve as the epicentre of Rationale’s research, training, production, worldwide logistics and operations. “The picturesque townships in the pristine Macedon Ranges…
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Wages dispute standoff
Angry maintenance workers at Castlemaine’s Don KR factory site have taken industrial action and are threatening more, blaming the company for eroding their pay and conditions while ramping up productivity expectations at the site. On Friday about 70 maintenance workers including mechanical fitters, mechanical tradespersons and electricians joined a four-hour work stoppage and implemented an…
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Skills for life
Kyneton Community and Learning Centre in conjunction with the Social Foundry and This Farm Needs A Farmer are rolling out a third round of their very successful ‘Skills for Life’ program. They are now adding an agriculture stream to the program, as well as offering more places in the sought-after hospitality course. It will launch…