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  • A shared love of flowers and writing

    A shared love of flowers and writing

    A shared love of flowers and writing has seen an online Instagram connection between a Melbourne novelist and a local…

  • Songs in the sticks

    Songs in the sticks

    Tucked away deep in the local bushland, Chewton’s Dingo Conservation Centre makes a pretty special backdrop to this Sunday’s Songs…

  • A life-changing donation

    A life-changing donation

    Just over a year ago Clare Beatson would not have thought about competitive sport let alone getting into a pool,…

  • Brigade vehicle stolen and torched

    Brigade vehicle stolen and torched

    Thieves who stole and torched Langley-Barfold Fire Brigade’s support vehicle last week may be linked to multiple break-ins that occurred…

  • Art in unusual places

    Art in unusual places

    Art installations have popped up at unusual sites all over Kyneton this week. It’s all part of the inaugural Kyneton…

  • Earthquake ‘so big and so violent’

    Earthquake ‘so big and so violent’

    ‘Harrowing’ doesn’t begin to describe the destruction left by Papua New Guinea’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook the Southern Highlands,…

  • Cats by just one point!

    Cats by just one point!

    The 2018 Riddell League football season kicked off on Saturday with a frenetic, pulsating encounter as reigning premier Macedon survived…

  • Tale of an unsung hero

    Tale of an unsung hero

    As Anzac Day nears, historian Ian Braybrook has been busy striving to ensure one of Castlemaine’s unsung war heroes does…

  • Topical art makes Blake Prize finals

    Topical art makes Blake Prize finals

    Kyneton artist Daniel Butterworth has been named among the 80 finalists for the 65th Blake Prize – one of Australia’s…

  • Art treasure hunt

    Art treasure hunt

    With a passion for the arts and their local community a group of professional artists and curators living in Kyneton…

  • Bringing the quartets to life

    Bringing the quartets to life

    Regarded by many critics as the great last work of acclaimed 20th century poet T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets is about…

  • Callum a real champion

    Callum a real champion

    For the last three Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday appeals, young Callum Judd has been watching progress from his hospital…