Connecting communities – A board game to celebrate the Ranges
As we come out of COVID days, Macedon Ranges Council is supporting the community by funding 10 artists to deliver a range of Creative...
Deployed to WA
Gisborne and Castlemaine State Emergency Service members were among the 75 volunteers deployed to Western Australia to support the state’s Cyclone Seroja response and...
Taylor a finalist
Kyneton-based visual artist Ross Taylor will be representing Australia as a finalist in this year's Sovereign Asian Art Prize held in Hong Kong.
The nomination-only...
On location at Lauriston
Production is under way in Lauriston on The Cost, a psychological revenge drama from director/writer/producer Matthew Holmes (The Legend of Ben Hall, Twin Rivers) and South...
Way of the future… new charge station at Harcourt
Harcourt's newly installed electric vehicle charge station is up and running with a new public EV fast charge station for Castlemaine soon to follow.
The...
Indigenous crowdfunding win
A crowdfunding campaign to purchase a parcel of land at Chewton as a permanent base for the local Indigenous community has rocketed to success,...
Memories of war
Jim Foreman was just 17 years old when he shipped out to sea. Now aged 94, it's taken the WWII veteran a lifetime to...
Plenty of pride – pack a picnic…
Whatever the weather, there'll be rainbow colours sparkling across Castlemaine this week with a broad spectrum program of Pride events in store - starting...
Early morning anger: commuters speak out
Fed up Castlemaine commuters have slammed the early morning passenger train service to Bendigo as totally unreliable and are demanding answers from the state...
$3.2M to sports precinct
The multi-million dollar Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Precinct has been boosted by a guaranteed $3.2M from the state government.
"This is a project of state-wide...
FRONTLINE FIGHTER
In February 2020, the United States was still largely unaware of the impending COVID-19 pandemic.
Yanti Turang, a Kyneton born and raised nurse who now...
Deserving attention – A guide to our beautiful and hardy native peas
Friends of the Box Ironbark Forests members Bernard Slattery and Bronwyn Silver have teamed up to produce a comprehensive guide to native peas of...
