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  • Conserving a local treasure

    Conserving a local treasure

    Locals will get a chance to help conserve one of the nation’s most remarkable endangered creatures that lives in Castlemaine’s …

  • Romsey site sought for new enterprise

    Romsey site sought for new enterprise

    Once ‘hidden’ local artisans can soon showcase their wares with the emergence of a new social enterprise in Romsey. The…

  • Light design not so bright

    Light design not so bright

    A Gisborne resident is fuming over new street lights installed in her estate that no longer match the heritage-look lamp…

  • Billboard blow – VCAT overturns council refusal

    Billboard blow – VCAT overturns council refusal

    Castlemaine residents who opposed plans to erect a large advertising billboard in Johnstone Street have been left in shock after…

  • Residents gutted

    Residents gutted

    A council plan to dig up heritage bluestone guttering in one of Kyneton’s oldest streets has residents threatening to form…

  • Winds of change

    Winds of change

    Winds of change have swept over the heritage-protected Windmill Farm of Kyneton. It is home to a rare 1850s bluestone…

  • Urgent call for change

    Urgent call for change

    Biolinks Alliance has submitted an urgent call for more research and funding to the 2018 inquiry into Australia’s faunal extinction…

  • Surprise musical legacy for the men

    Surprise musical legacy for the men

    It’s not every day you get left a surprising musical legacy. When dedicated Castlemaine Men’s Shed member Lindesay Hart passed…

  • Legal action loses fire

    Legal action loses fire

    A court case has been dropped over the removal of a historical brick sawdust kiln in Kyneton. The unusual kiln…

  • From Montsalvat to Elphinstone

    From Montsalvat to Elphinstone

    After three decades of teaching oil painting at Melbourne’s famed Montsalvat, acclaimed Castlemaine-based artist and teacher David Moore is making…

  • Drugs land vet in court

    A Castlemaine vet alleged to have illegally used and possessed addictive drugs used in the treatment of animals suffering pain…

  • Honouring a legend

    Honouring a legend

    Bobby Adams joined his local brigade to fight fires when he was just 14 years old. Today at 95 he…