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An extraordinary festival of ideas
The 2018 Bendigo Writers Festival is set to kick off on Thursday August 9 and run over three days, featuring some spectacular talent from across the region. Castlemaine’s Suzanne Donisthorpe will conduct two live interviews on stage, each about an hour long, with the opportunity for a question and answer session at the end. The…
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Locals join the ride
Castlemaine locals Greg Barkla and Bob Bent have teamed up to take part in the Black Dog Ride, a 10-day motorcycle tour to raise funds and awareness for the suicide prevention organisation the Black Dog Institute. The lads will join hundreds of participants from across Australia on the ride, an adventure that will see the…
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Buzz along to the bee
Do you fancy yourself to be an exceptional speller? Can you recite all those grammatical rules we learned at school – “i before e except after c” – in your sleep? Are you always wondering if embarrassing has one r or two? Then it’s time to test your spelling prowess against your friends at the…
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Blaze takes ‘Durrol’
‘Durrol’ one of Mount Macedon’s last hill station homes has been destroyed by fire. The devastating loss came last Wednesday when local firefighters responded to a call at the 117-year-old Edwardian weatherboard just after 9.30am. Macedon Fire Brigade captain Ross Luke was first on scene and said the blaze had already taken a strong hold…
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New courts to be a hit
Tennis will become even more of a hit in Riddells Creek with three new Tennis Australia compliant hard courts to be constructed. The $100,000 upgrade for Riddells Creek Tennis Club’s long-awaited stage two development will be funded through the Building Better Regions Fund – Infrastructure Projects stream. Riddells Creek Tennis Club secretary Andrew Nicoll said…
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IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Feras Fayyad will not attend the 2018 Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival screening of his film Last Men in Aleppo due to visa administration issues. Instead, he will join the audience live by Skype after the special screening of his film at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine on Saturday at 7.30pm, for an…
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Macedon wants a hub
A group of Macedon locals have banded together in a bid to convert a council-owned building into a community hub. The former maternal and child health centre at 47 Victoria Street was earmarked to be sold by council to fund refurbishments to Macedon’s ovals and other upgrades, until lobbying by the group gained them a…
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Community chips in
The campaign to replace Langley-Barfold Fire Brigade’s stolen support vehicle is gaining strong community support. The Ford Ranger was found torched near Lake Eppalock in April and now the brigade is faced with the challenge of replacing the vehicle and having it fully functional before the next fire season. Brigade captain Ian Lonsdale said the…
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$195M solar farm bid
A $195 million solar farm proposed for Baringhup will feed enough energy into the grid to power 44,000 homes while reducing CO2 emissions by 170,000 tonnes annually if it goes ahead, the project’s proponents say. RES Australia, the company behind the proposed 75 megawatt solar farm, is holding a public information session about the proposal…
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Blaze at Highbank
The historic Kyneton farmhouse owned by television personality Tonia Todman was significantly damaged by fire yesterday morning. Firefighters arrived at Highbank, on Donnelly Road, at about 6.45am to find the property’s Bed and Breakfast accommodation fully ablaze and spreading to the adjoining homestead. The fire started in the roof, with a five-layer ceiling – tin…
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Development approved for Carriers Arms
Mount Alexander Shire Council’s decision to approve development of Maldon’s historic Carriers Arms property paves the way for a new bakery and cafe in the town’s main street. At its meeting last Tuesday night the council unanimously granted approval for the development aiming to build a two-bedroom dwelling and develop an existing building to create…
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Letters from the inside
Insights into life on the inside is at the heart of a unique live production being staged at the Old Castlemaine Gaol this Friday. Letters from the Inside is a spoken word performance of letters written by men and women serving sentences in central Victorian prisons – Tarrengower, Middleton and Loddon. The project’s creator is…