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  • CHASING CARS  Leo Pruneau’s designs come to life in iconic Australian wheels

    CHASING CARS Leo Pruneau’s designs come to life in iconic Australian wheels

    Not many people can lay claim to having flown first class on every business trip, and on the Concorde five…

  • Club joins positive role model move

    Club joins positive role model move

    As the footy season hopes to make a welcome return, members of the Woodend Hesket Football Netball Club are a…

  • Castlemaine Art Museum to reopen

    Castlemaine Art Museum to reopen

    Castlemaine Art Museum has announced that it will reopen its doors to the public this Saturday June 20 at noon….

  • Kyneton’s cinema pioneer

    Kyneton’s cinema pioneer

    With the Australian film industry on coronavirus pause and even Hollywood hanging up the slate, Kyneton set designer Leslie Binns…

  • FUTURE FOR FACTORY? Objections and support for Woodend retail plan

    FUTURE FOR FACTORY? Objections and support for Woodend retail plan

    Parking and traffic flow need a re-think in a $4.7 million Woodend retail redevelopment plan to breathe new life into…

  • The Tough Guys are back in town

    The Tough Guys are back in town

    After two months of COVID-enforced hibernation the Tough Guys are back – and this time they’re reading Steinbeck. The return…

  • Loss, pain and dementia

    Loss, pain and dementia

    Woodend Lifestyle Carers is a group of people who have travelled the dementia path with a loved one. They have…

  • Farm Zone win for Lancefield family

    Farm Zone win for Lancefield family

    A Lancefield couple has fought to build their dream home and business in a Rochford-area Farm Zone and won unanimous…

  • Expanding opera’s reach

    Expanding opera’s reach

    A long and distinguished career in opera has taken Dr David Kram all over the world, but it is his…

  • An elite contribution

    An elite contribution

    The worlds of football and ballet have collided under Susan Mayes’ world-leading physio research and she has been acknowledged for…

  • Fryerstown photographer gets OAM

    Fryerstown photographer gets OAM

    Receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia, acclaimed local photographer Julie Millowick has taken this Queen’s Birthday opportunity to…

  • Queen’s Birthday gong for a ‘£10 Pom’

    Queen’s Birthday gong for a ‘£10 Pom’

    Arriving in Australia in 1957, aged 25 and a proud ‘Ten Pound Pom’, Ron Alexander never looked back. The carpenter…