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INSPIRATIONAL OPENER
Kyneton Football Netball Club’s FIDA team took the field for the first time on Saturday, taking on Rupertswood in the league opener for the all-abilities Football Integration Development Association. The team entered the ground running through the Tigers’ handmade banner, put together by Trout and club volunteers. The banner read “If I can take this…
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Trentham gallery defies odds
Trentham’s artist-run Little Gallery is expanding and coming home to its original High Street premises after defying COVID lockdown odds that badly affected much of the arts industry. Rose Wilson, one of the artists who helped found the gallery nine years ago, said the gallery was grateful for outstanding support of the town and local…
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Great effort all round
After a COVID-enforced hiatus in 2020, tin rattlers at the traffic lights and street walkers were back, collecting for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal from residents and holiday travellers throughout the Macedon Ranges and beyond. More than $18,500 was collected from the Kyneton area, with Kyneton cubs and scouts, fire brigade and residents…
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Status boost for Daffodil Festival
Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival has been named a shire signature event in Macedon Ranges Events Strategy 2021-25 after councillors pushed for the status boost last month. The festival, which attracts at least 18,000 people over 11 days each year, was previously regarded as a tier-two event against the council’s rating system, suggesting it was…
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'Black spot' woes continue
Holiday traffic was delayed on Friday after yet another accident on one of central Victoria’s busiest tourist routes. Shortly before 2pm, traffic on Edgecombe Road at Kyneton stopped while a vehicle was waiting to turn right into Kyneton Bushland Resort when a utility towing a car ploughed into the back of a camper trailer being…
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Farm build right threat
A strategy aimed at protecting productive agricultural land in the Macedon Ranges is being challenged by farmland owners. The local council’s draft Rural Land Use Strategy will scrap existing rights of landowners to build a dwelling in the Farm Zone on land of 40ha or more, which farmers fear will create barriers and uncertainty about…
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A changing landscape?
Accommodation, restaurants and convenience stores could become part of Macedon Ranges’ farming and rural landscape, under the newly released Draft Rural Land Use Strategy. Greater ease for tourism and commercial activity would come with the new Rural Activity Zone recommended for land in the shire’s northeast between Woodend, Malmsbury and Tylden. A land analysis of…
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Don't forget the flu jab
While the spotlight is on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, local health professionals are warning against complacency around getting the flu vaccine as well. Among them, state Pharmacy Guild committee member Kin Chong said local pharmacies were now stocked up with the flu vaccine. “In the past we’ve encouraged people to start getting their flu vaccine…
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Residents receive COVID-19 vaccine
Central Highlands Rural Health continued its rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine to residents in Creswick, Daylesford and Trentham aged care facilities last week. More than 70 residents across the three sites rolled up their sleeves to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was administered by the Grampians mobile vaccination team from Ballarat Health Services. Specialist nurse…
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Remembering a music titan
Rod Laver Arena hosted its first live music in more than a year last Wednesday night, and it was in honour of Macedon Ranges’ own Michael Gudinski. A long list of stars gathered to pay tribute to the godfather of Australian music at a state memorial attended by 7000 people including Jimmy Barnes, Tina Arena…
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Dogs of the vines
Our 2021 Wine Trail magazine is out now and has some gorgeous four-legged ambassadors we’d like to share. Among the many ‘dogs of the vines’ featured, Lily and Clive have the job at Coliban Valley Vineyard of chasing pesky birds out from under the protective netting. Needless to say Lily and Clive, english pointers who are beautifully…
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Busy day for Gisborne brigade
It was a busy day for Gisborne Fire Brigade crews yesterday with their morning starting off with a single-car accident on Ross Watt Road in Gisborne just after 10.30am. The driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, misjudged a turn and ended up on an embankment. Luckily the driver suffered only minor injuries…