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  • Hub push for funds

    Hub push for funds

    Macedon locals are fighting to keep momentum for a much-anticipated community hub as they face a cost blowout for the…

  • Castlemaine State Fest offers grants to creatives

    Castlemaine State Fest offers grants to creatives

    Virus or no virus, come March next year the Castlemaine State Festival will happen, its director says. Exactly what form…

  • Farmers win in land battle

    Farmers win in land battle

    A fourth generation Springfield farming family has taken on the state government in a David and Goliath battle over land,…

  • CHECKPOINT CHEATS

    CHECKPOINT CHEATS

    Macedon Ranges residents have raised concern over how easily people have been able to enter the shire from COVID-19 lockdown…

  • Coles Woodend staff member positive

    Coles Woodend staff member positive

    A team member at Coles’ Woodend supermarket is self-isolating after testing positive for COVID-19. In a statement posted to the…

  • New digs for Kyneton crews

    New digs for Kyneton crews

    The Kyneton team of electricity distributor Powercor has moved into a new depot. The $10 million development at Redesdale Road…

  • Lancefield recycling centre launches

    Lancefield recycling centre launches

    Lancefield locals are encouraged to think twice about what they are sending to landfill through the launch of a Lancefield…

  • Legendary muso becomes new citizen

    Legendary muso becomes new citizen

    He’s considered one of the most genuinely talented figures in Australian music still at the top of his game and…

  • Fed up: Diggings park vandalised

    Fed up: Diggings park vandalised

    Fed up Chewton locals say they’ve had enough of vandalism being inflicted on treasured local walking trails and public land…

  • Sustainable living at The Paddock

    Sustainable living at The Paddock

    Work is set to begin shortly on stage two of The Paddock Eco Village in Castlemaine after the project took…

  • Unrest as new chapter opens

    Unrest as new chapter opens

    Tomorrow July 1 marks a historic day as the Country Fire Authority’s ‘integrated’ metro and regional stations and Metropolitan Fire…

  • GROWING PAINS FOR GISBORNE

    GROWING PAINS FOR GISBORNE

    Gisborne’s coveted village feel could be compromised if Macedon Ranges Council’s draft 30-year plan for the town is adopted without…