Jazz fest makes a comeback
The Castlemaine Jazz Festival is set to return in winter 2021 after a year's recess.
Castlemaine Jazz Festival committee member Lyndal McClure and treasurer Caroline...
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 a range of Creative...
Deployed to WA
Gisborne and Castlemaine State Emergency Service members were among the 75 volunteers deployed to Western Australia to support the state’s Cyclone Seroja response and...
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 in Hong Kong.
The nomination-only...
'Patronising and abstract'
Macedon Ranges locals are calling for clearer messaging from the federal government’s education campaign aimed to teach consent to school students.
The government last week...
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 Hall, Twin Rivers) and South...
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 Castlemaine soon to follow.
The...
Indigenous crowdfunding win
A crowdfunding campaign to purchase a parcel of land at Chewton as a permanent base for the local Indigenous community has rocketed to success,...
Memories of war
Jim Foreman was just 17 years old when he shipped out to sea. Now aged 94, it's taken the WWII veteran a lifetime to...
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 in store - starting...
Ready to roll for MS
Kyneton's Carole Hemmings is ready to roll for the MS fundraiser event at Albert Park Lake.
She will switch her wheelchair for her walker to...
Pottery art as big as an ox…
For years the old Taradale roadhouse has sat vacant and gathering dust - but recently all that has changed.
The transformation of the old main...
