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Vandals target signs in pokies fight
Signs with the message to ‘Keep Romsey pokies free’ in the Romsey township were targeted with spray paint last week. Sometime overnight last Wednesday and Thursday at least four of the signs were spray-painted with opposite messaging: ‘Give Romsey pokies $$ 4 our town’. Anti-pokies group Keep Romsey Pokies Free had posted about eight signs…
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STATE FEST IN STRIFE
The Castlemaine State Festival has been placed into voluntary administration. The local arts community was in shock late last week when the festival board announced the move to community members and supporters. The news comes in the wake of the cancellation of numerous music festivals and events across Australia. With rising overheads, contractions of funding,…
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Score the Edgy Veg dishes!
Fook Shing in Kyneton is entering a vegan mapo tofu dish in this year’s Edgy Veg Awards. It sits alongside 20 other entries including a caramelised eggplant dish at Holgates in Woodend, a wild mushroom dish at Social Foundry and plant-based chick’n satay skewers at Lancefield’s Lost Watering Hole to name a few. This will…
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Healthy Good Friday tally
Communities around Victoria have dug deep for The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal with an overall final tally of $23,368,724. The tally for regional and rural Victoria reached $5,261,913 with significant contributions from Mount Alexander, Macedon Ranges and Hepburn Shires. Local fire brigades, emergency services, scout groups, organisations, and individuals were involved in this…
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Rats, mould and mice
Kyneton Football Netball Club netballers are facing another season using a mouldy shed as their changerooms.
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Outside areas want say in pokies survey
Romsey will have its say on pokies in Macedon Ranges Shire Council’s plebiscite but some residents feel the survey area doesn’t extend far enough.
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Call for VCAT reform
Mitchell Shire councillors are advocating for reform in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision-making process.
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Kyneton rallies for the forest
About 500 Kyneton locals joined Victorian Greens Senator, Janet Rice, and comedian Arj Barker in an organised protest march last Sunday against salvage logging in the Wombat State Forest.
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Plebiscite on pokies
Romsey residents are being asked to complete a survey relating to an application for gaming machines at the Romsey Hotel.
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Taylor on top
Young Gisborne filmmaker and artist Lucas Taylor is being celebrated with the best in the state.
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Head-on at Carlsruhe
Two people had to be cut from their vehicle following a head-on collision at Carlsruhe on Saturday.
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Old Castlemaine Gaol up for sale
The Old Castlemaine Gaol, home to The Bromley Collection Museum, has been placed on the market.