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  • DEAD take over Village Square

    DEAD take over Village Square

    Castlemaine-based band/art project DEAD will play a free show at the town’s ‘Village Square’ entertainment space on Friday, March 4…

  • Retrospective exhibition at Vaughan

    Retrospective exhibition at Vaughan

    After 20 years, respected Vaughan artist Jenny Morton is saying farewell to her family home and studio ‘Art at Morton’s…

  • Contract awarded for upgrade of fatality road

    Contract awarded for upgrade of fatality road

    Eve Lamb A contested vote of council has seen a local earthmoving firm clinch the $529,842 contract for roadworks to…

  • Coles for Romsey?

    Coles for Romsey?

    Supermarket giant Coles has confirmed it has interest in Romsey. A Coles spokesperson told the Express last week, “Along with sites all…

  • Flare-up reignites grassland blaze

    Flare-up reignites grassland blaze

    Eve Lamb A flare-up from a previous fire has been blamed for igniting a grassfire that saw residents in the…

  • Championship in his sights

    Championship in his sights

    Fourth-generation Romsey axeman Blake Meyer is sharpening his focus on the STIHL Timbersports Australian Trophy Championship next month. The 14-time…

  • What! Me? Sing?

    What! Me? Sing?

    Notes from a wobbly Woodend Warbler Lindsay Cumming When my daughter, newly arrived in Woodend with her family last year,…

  • Idea takes seed

    Idea takes seed

    Three friends are establishing a native nursery for the Macedon Ranges, with a goal of continuing and expanding the legacy…

  • Explore Kyneton through art

    Explore Kyneton through art

    The second Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial, ‘Holding the Circle’, launches this March. Eleven artists from around Australia have been commissioned…

  • Mask rules to ease

    Mask rules to ease

    A number of further changes to pandemic orders and public health recommendations in Victoria will come into place at 11.59pm…

  • Celebrating Indigenous heritage

    Celebrating Indigenous heritage

    Eve Lamb The Aboriginal story of two local landmarks is being recorded and shared via a new public mural being…

  • Art project explodes mental health stigma

    Art project explodes mental health stigma

    Aimee Timpson likes to colour outside the lines and harness her creativity to express deep and often painful emotions as…