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Snaps for Nepal project
Home-grown travel photographer Rochelle Hansen will be trekking Nepal for a charitable project and she’s inviting company. The award-winning shutterbug has just partnered with not-for-profit charity The Small World to lead a photography tour in February. Rochelle is inspired to show like-minded people remote regions of the country that captured her heart when she was…
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Concert for Jarrah
The organisers behind the ‘Jarrah’s Fight for Sight’ Go Fund Me campaign, have announced details of a benefit concert to be held next month, with all proceeds going to Jarrah and his family. Nine-year-old Jarrah Podesta has lost both of his eyes to retinoblastoma – a rare form of malignant cancer that only occurs in…
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Slow down – Residents call for speed reduction
The speed limit on Ranters Gully Road at Muckleford is dangerous and needs to be lowered to avoid an accident, concerned residents of the thoroughfare say. Eight of the residents living on the popular lifestyle strip signed a petition, which was presented to Mount Alexander Shire Council at its July meeting, calling for the limit…
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New festival collapses
An arts and wellness festival awarded $450,000 in state government funding has been cancelled. Eyebrows were raised when the government announced the significant funding allocation earlier this year for the new Live.Love.Life Festival, which aimed to showcase Daylesford and Macedon Ranges, while established festivals including the Woodend Winter Arts Festival had their funding reduced. Daylesford…
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Dames, drinks … and drawing
It’s amazing what goes on in little country halls. Just ask the folk out Guildford way where the local music hall has turned its hand to hosting regular life-drawing classes – with a twist. While most would associate life drawing with efforts to capture the human form in the raw – sans threads – the…
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Sunday session
A live music concert at the Kyneton Racecourse is the latest fundraising effort by the Kyneton Football Netball Club. Popular singer/songwriter Reece Mastin, who is now a familiar face around Kyneton, will head the lineup of live talent on October 14. “I fell in love with Kyneton and its lovely people, can’t wait to come…
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Feed it forward
A generosity food movement across Lancefield and Romsey aims to turn reclaimed fresh produce into nutritious shared-table meals. Feed it Forward will make use of excess and donated produce from local growers and use it for monthly cook-ups where local residents are the cooks for themselves and the community. It’s a collaboration between Lancefield and…
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Devotion to duty
Newstead local Trevor Mitchell has been recognised for his bravery during a devastating fire aboard petrol tanker ship HMAS Westralia in 1998. The publican, Forty Acres Brewing co-founder and former Navy sailor was presented with a Conspicuous Service Cross by Victorian Governor the Hon Linda Dessau AC at Government House in Melbourne on September 5.…
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Delicious award winners fly high
Springfield Pastured Eggs is flying high after being named a ‘From Paddock’ state winner of the national Delicious Produce Awards. The award is a huge milestone for Ben and Lena Way who only began their business venture 18 months ago and began to sell in local stores in April. “It’s complete validation that our farming…
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Higher status for forests
Greater conservation protection for the Cobaw and Wombat State Forests has been proposed following the completion of an investigation into significant areas of native forest in Victoria by the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council. Requested by the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change in March 2017, the purpose of the investigation was to identify and…
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Young farmer spreads wings
A first generation farmer who has settled in Springfield is taking flight in the poultry industry. Romsey footballer Benjamin Way traded his Melbourne sales job for country life about 15 months ago to begin Springfield Pastured Eggs and is now kicking goals of a new kind. He was recently awarded a $5000 Young Farmers Scholarship…
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Professionalism commended
Two local detectives have been commended for their professionalism in investigating a raft of serious offences committed by inmates who escaped from the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre in January last year. Detective Leading Senior Constable Wade Andrews and Detective Leading Senior Constable Glenn Johnston were awarded Divisional Commendations last Tuesday for their dedication, resilience and…