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First festival out the gate
Castlemaine Botanical Gardens sets the scene for this evening’s Castlemaine State Festival program launch – and what a festival it promises to be. The result of clever reformatting to cater for vagaries tossed up by COVID, CSF 2021 has been expanded by seven days and makes ample use of outdoor venues to carefully manage audience…
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Miracle escape from Taradale truck crash
A driver had a miraculous escape after his truck careered off a bridge on the Calder Freeway at Taradale this morning, falling 50 feet and landing in a creek bed. The impact of the crash folded the cabin under the trailer and pinned the driver by his legs. He remained conscious and was able to…
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Driver trapped in crash at Taradale
A woman was trapped in her vehicle after a collision with a cattle truck on the Calder Freeway at Taradale yesterday. The sedan collided with the rear of the truck travelling up a hill in the Melbourne-bound lanes, before being ricocheted into the wire rope barriers about 6.40pm. The barriers and the damage from the…
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Taungurung agreement creates jobs
The Taungurung Land and Waters Council is creating 17 new jobs as part of a formal agreement with the state government recognising the Taungurung people as Traditional Owners of a large area of central Victoria. The agreement is the outcome of more than three years of negotiations, and covers an area stretching from Rochester and…
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Take a well-earned break
Cellar doors across the Macedon Ranges are holding a series of events this month as part of the new Summertime Fling Festival. Three weeks of events promoting everything wine, food and fun are underway and will continue until January 31. The Macedon Ranges Vignerons Association is running the event to encourage lovers of wine and…
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Lucky escape for driver in fiery Harcourt crash
A driver was lucky to escape serious injury in a single-vehicle accident on Ford Road at Harcourt North on Sunday afternoon. Castlemaine Police Sergeant Steve Bax said the vehicle collided with a tree around 3pm and fortunately the woman was able to free herself from the car before it burst into flames. Multiple passers-by stopped…
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Car flips in Kyneton crash, driver flees scene
A driver fled the scene of a spectacular crash on Edgecombe Street in Kyneton this afternoon. The 37-year-old Kyneton woman was driving a Holden Astra north near Orr Street about 1.50pm when she collided with a parked Mitsubishi Lancer and spun, flipping her car onto its roof. The 37-year-old sustained cuts and bruises and a…
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‘Rock’ races now at Kyneton
‘It’s official! The annual Australia Day race meeting usually held at Hanging Rock has been switched to Kyneton. This means there will be two race meetings in five days at the Kyneton course – the 2021 Hanging Rock Cup meeting on Tuesday, January 26 (Australia Day), and the annual Woodend Cup meeting on Saturday, January…
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Artists in orbit around CAM
A new exhibition at Castlemaine Art Museum celebrates central Victorian artists in the orbit that surrounds the gallery. The first artist to feature in Orbit, which was launched on Boxing Day in the Benefactors Gallery, is Bendigo artist and visual arts lecturer Kylie Banyard. Banyard’s artistic practice is grounded in painting and intersects with photography,…
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Thieves exploit honesty system
Two local children have been left devastated after someone stole plants from their roadside stall at Harcourt North just before Christmas. Harper and Quinn Vance set up their little stall to catch traffic on the way to Mount Alexander during the COVID lockdown and were selling produce such as lemons, olives and plants to make…
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Cheeky thief caught yolk-nosed
A cheeky brush-tailed phascogale has been caught yolk-nosed at the centre of a hen house theft in Lauriston. Property owner Albert Golden said he was amazed to discover the ‘vulnerable’ listed creature, known for its distinctive bushy tail, making a feast of his hen’s eggs one night. Albert had set out to find the culprit…
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Where’s the hazard?
A 60km/h ‘road hazard’ speed limit along a long, straight section of road in Woodend with no apparent hazards in sight is confusing some local road users. One driver who witnessed an unmarked police car pull a driver over along the straight on Woodend-Romsey Road, which is located near Braemar College’s Woodend campus, contacted the…