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  • Connecting communities – A board game to celebrate the Ranges

    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…

  • Deployed to WA

    Deployed to WA

    Gisborne and Castlemaine State Emergency Service members were among the 75 volunteers deployed to Western Australia to support the state’s…

  • Taylor a finalist

    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…

  • On location at Lauriston

    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…

  • Way of the future… new charge station at Harcourt

    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…

  • Indigenous crowdfunding win

    Indigenous crowdfunding win

    A crowdfunding campaign to purchase a parcel of land at Chewton as a permanent base for the local Indigenous community…

  • Memories of war

    Memories of war

    Jim Foreman was just 17 years old when he shipped out to sea. Now aged 94, it’s taken the WWII…

  • Plenty of pride – pack a picnic…

    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…

  • Early morning anger: commuters speak out

    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…

  • $3.2M to sports precinct

    $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…

  • FRONTLINE FIGHTER

    FRONTLINE FIGHTER

    In February 2020, the United States was still largely unaware of the impending COVID-19 pandemic. Yanti Turang, a Kyneton born…

  • Deserving attention – A guide to our beautiful and hardy native peas

    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…