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Golden oldies roll in
Eve Lamb You could have been forgiven for thinking you’d been whisked back to a time when having a set of wheels meant something like a Ford Model T Tourer or a Willys Overland Whippet. Fifty pre-1930s vintage beauties were front and centre, as their doting owners showed them off during a special visit that…
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Light up Kyneton
The first major event for the 2022 Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival is the colourful light show ‘Light up Kyneton’ on the Kyneton Mechanics Institute on Friday April 8 from 7pm. This date provides a great opportunity after the end of daylight savings for the light show and will give the families of the children…
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An abundance of botanical art
The Macedon Ranges has always stimulated a love of nature and an engagement with the natural world that has attracted gardeners and artists for more than a century. To celebrate its centennial year, the Mount Macedon Horticultural Society is conducting a month-long program of events at the Mount Macedon Horticultural Hall to coincide with the…
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Gerri’s Journey
Eve Lamb Chances are you may have seen them as they passed through Castlemaine last week. Twelve blistered but very determined walkers who stopped for a lunch break at Victory Park as they walked all the way from Ballarat’s Mount Buninyong to Bendigo. A bit of leg weariness was not about to stop them as…
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Temporary outages for Kyneton
Kyneton residents may experience a series of temporary outages in mobile phone coverage this week as Telstra upgrades its mobile base station with additional infrastructure. These improvements will impact Telstra 3G and 4G coverage at various times during daylight hours from Wednesday to Friday this week, and again on Monday and Tuesday of next week.…
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Green light for roadhouse
Macedon Ranges Council has approved plans to relocate and upgrade the Carlsruhe BP roadhouse to create a freeway service centre. The move is described as a significant upgrade for the 1970s facility with improved facilities, EV charge-points, more truck parking and parkland area. Design duplicates that of Longwarry’s Caltex/Hungry Jacks service centre off Princes Highway.…
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Break from the busyness
Schedules may seem ‘back to normal’ but complementary practitioners are supporting local people to check in with what the body has to say about busyness. Fear, worry and anxiety frazzle our nervous systems. Without rest and recovery after chronic stress, our health and wellbeing can be at risk. If we go for too long without…
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Good times roll …
Eve Lamb How often do you get the chance to take a cruise on a double decker bicycle named Elliott – with toaster attached? Not every day, that’s fairly clear. But last Thursday was one such day as staff and students at Castlemaine’s Steiner School joined forces with CycleSafe Mt Alexander to hold a decorated…
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Journey back to a bygone era
The Mount Alexander Vintage Engine Club is holding its 25th annual Vintage Engine Rally on the weekend of April 9-10. Taking pride of place at this year’s event at the Dave Bennett Reserve in Muckleford, will be MAVEC’s latest acquisition a Clayton & Shuttleworth threshing machine generously donated to the local club by the Walsh…
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Celebration of gender diversity
This Thursday is Trans Day of Visibility, an annual celebration of the achievements of the transgender, gender diverse and non-binary community and a day for the whole community to show their support as allies and acknowledge the experiences of transgender people and the challenges they face. Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health, which runs a number…
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New offer for Rock paddock
Will Macedon Ranges Shire Council agree to sell Hanging Rock’s East Paddock and at what cost? The public can soon weigh in as a new offer from the Victorian Government has emerged to purchase the community asset. Council’s acting director of corporate and community, Gina Lyons, said the proposed sale price was yet to be…
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Rhythms in the red gums
John Butler is hitting the stage in Harcourt this weekend to support The Thin Green Line Foundation and their work with Indigenous women rangers. The internationally revered artist will be joined in the lineup by brother-in-law Nicky Bomba, wife Danielle Caruana and good mate Dingo Spender of Mama Kin Spender – as well as by…