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  • This project was picked!

    This project was picked!

    A project engaging local teenagers to help build Australia’s biggest miniature railway at Harcourt has won a $198,000 boost, emerging…

  • Co-op gains Greens

    Co-op gains Greens

    The Victorian Greens have thrown their full support behind the model of a community-managed Kyneton Town Square. A Kyneton and…

  • Travel writer sets down swag in the ‘Maine

    Travel writer sets down swag in the ‘Maine

    There’s not much of Australia that Lee Atkinson hasn’t seen. But when it came to setting down her swag on…

  • Abuzz for new microscope

    Abuzz for new microscope

    Honeybees will be put under the microscope to give diseases like nosema and American foulbrood the buzz-off in the Macedon…

  • 400 reasons to celebrate

    400 reasons to celebrate

    Ask learner drivers Lily McMahon and Tilly Donkin what they’ve got out of doing a unique intensive local learner driver…

  • The buzz on honey

    The buzz on honey

    Buying honey from local beekeepers and reading the label are both good ways to ensure you’ll get pure honey, local…

  • Lose yourself to dance

    Lose yourself to dance

    It’s Mental Health Week across Mount Alexander Shire and there’s no better time to put on your dancing shoes and…

  • Support networks vital

    Support networks vital

    New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals suicide rates are at a 10-year high. The Causes of Death…

  • Fuel prices skyrocket

    Fuel prices skyrocket

    Victorians have been hit by the biggest surge in fuel prices in more than a decade. RACV motoring experts explain…

  • Do the time warp

    Do the time warp

    When Castlemaine’s Leslie Thornton was a schoolboy he lived next door to the school – but was always late. In…

  • Platypus plans

    Platypus plans

    What uses electroreception to find its prey, is venomous, and is a semi aquatic mammal that lays eggs? One of…

  • New kid on the kerbside

    New kid on the kerbside

    Recycling education will be a significant feature as Veolia Environmental begins its new contract providing kerbside recycling and waste collection…