News
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Environmental journalist turns MC for gliders
By Bron Willis Gregg Borschmann has had many conversations with editors over his 30-year career as an environmental journalist, but there is one from the 1980s that sticks in his mind more vividly than any other. “I had just come back from spending time in Queensland – writing about the reef and the Wet Tropics…
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‘A LICENCE TO POLLUTE’
Coliban Water’s planned upgrade of the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant will not be completed in time to prevent further illegal discharges of wastewater to the Campaspe River this year, downstream landowners fear. Significant rain a fortnight ago has raised the plant’s storage lagoons to 96 per cent capacity and wet conditions have delayed upgrade works…
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Dispute to Consumer Affairs
Members of Mount Alexander Animal Welfare have written to Consumer Affairs Victoria airing concerns about the conduct of the organisation’s committee. Their concerns include the committee’s failure, to date, to accept a grant to establish a low-cost vet clinic at MAAW’s Castlemaine animal shelter. A delegation of concerned members, including former president Stephanie Miller, Ian…
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Market back in Lancefield
After being held at Romsey for the past two months, the popular Lancefield Farmers Market is returning to Lancefield this Saturday, October 24 – at a brand new location. Organisers were keen to have the market return to the town where it originated, but it’s not going to be in the central plantations in High…
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Castlemaine psychologist hails breakthrough treatment
Castlemaine psychoanalytic psychologist Deborah Coulthard has opened a chapter of Mind Medicine Australia in Castlemaine and is inviting interested community members to join the Facebook group. Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering caused by mental illness through expanding treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients. It aims to establish safe…
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Woodend begins countdown to Christmas
Woodend residents are being urged to dig into their wool stashes and pull out their crochet hooks to help create the town’s Christmas tree this year. In 2019, the Woodend Traders enlisted the support of a local, Adam Bucholtz, to create a large metal-framed Christmas tree. This year’s vision will see the frame cloaked in…
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Call catches burglar
Police response to a Triple Zero call in Woodend recovered a series of stolen items on Monday. Gisborne and Kyneton police responded to reports of a male acting suspiciously in High Street about 3.30am. Upon arrival a 30-year-old male from St Kilda was arrested for breaching his bail conditions. The male was searched and located…
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An ‘act of intellectual reconciliation’
The ancient methods traditional Indigenous cultures used to memorise important information had to work. They could literally mean the difference between life and death. Now prolific Castlemaine author Dr Lynne Kelly has teamed up with Australia’s head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges, Margo Neale, to produce a significant new book shedding light on these…
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Join the Royal family
Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal launched its second annual ‘Loyal Royal’ membership drive on October 1 and is once again inviting community members to join the Royal family and enjoy the benefits. The theatre team needs community support more than ever before after coronavirus lockdowns forced the shutdown of the independent cinema and live music and events.…
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Platypus numbers good at Malmsbury
Eight platypus – six males and two females – were recorded during a recent trapping survey along the Coliban River at Malmsbury. All were in good condition and were released back to the wild after being examined by researchers from the Australian Platypus Conservancy, assisted by members of Malmsbury District Landcare Group who funded the…
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Chicks go online
It is time to don your favourite frock and floral accessory, switch your computer on and turn up the volume for this year’s Chicks in the Sticks event. In its eighth year, and the first time online, women from across central Victoria have the opportunity to join one of the North Central Catchment Management Authority’s…
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Western Water fined over spill
Western Water has been slapped with an $8261 fine for an unlicensed discharge of Class B recycled water at Gisborne. The spill of more than 40 megalitres, which occurred at the Willows (South of Mills Road), happened in June and was later estimated to have been leaking over a four-month period. Some of the spill…