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  • 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…

  • Protection promise that rocks

    Protection promise that rocks

    A re-elected Labor state government plans to purchase Hanging Rock’s East Paddock. Long championed by the community, the move is…

  • Warm welcome for UK import

    Warm welcome for UK import

    Woodend Cricket Club’s first-ever international player received a very enthusiastic welcome within a few hours of arriving from England last…

  • Skills for life

    Skills for life

    Kyneton Community and Learning Centre in conjunction with the Social Foundry and This Farm Needs A Farmer are rolling out…

  • New management for Newstead pool

    New management for Newstead pool

    Bendigo Regional Young Men’s Christian Association Youth Services will manage Newstead Swimming Pool for the next three years following a…

  • Hunt on for land

    Hunt on for land

    Romsey Men’s Shed needs a permanent home and has identified a preferred site at Romsey Park. The organisation became incorporated…

  • Snaps for Nepal project

    Snaps for Nepal project

    Home-grown travel photographer Rochelle Hansen will be trekking Nepal for a charitable project and she’s inviting company. The award-winning shutterbug…

  • Concert for Jarrah

    Concert for Jarrah

    The organisers behind the ‘Jarrah’s Fight for Sight’ Go Fund Me campaign, have announced details of a benefit concert to…

  • Slow down – Residents call for speed reduction

    Slow down – Residents call for speed reduction

    The speed limit on Ranters Gully Road at Muckleford is dangerous and needs to be lowered to avoid an accident,…

  • New festival collapses

    New festival collapses

    An arts and wellness festival awarded $450,000 in state government funding has been cancelled. Eyebrows were raised when the government…