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Farmers win favour
A Kyneton sheep farming family is bound for big plans after a critical decision was made in their favour. The Pinto family aims to be among Australia’s largest Shropshire breeders and said a permit to build was a “make or break decision”. Their Baynton Road property falls under the 40ha build requirement for the Farm…
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Urgent plea on netball needs
Kyneton netballers have made an urgent and desperate plea for action to bring their facilities up to code. Last week, Kyneton Football Netball Club secretary, Vinitha Pinto, made an appeal for funding in Macedon Ranges Shire Council’s 2022/23 budget. “The netball courts we have in Kyneton are not as per code and for the last…
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Honour ‘quite a shock’
Eve Lamb Truth is we all get old, if we’re lucky, so it’s nice to know that someone like Marilyn Bennet is out there doing what she does. The prodigious amount of work that the longtime Castlemaine local pours into improving her community, and particularly the lot of seniors, has played a major role in…
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Royal honour for fest favourite
There’s hardly a person in Kyneton who doesn’t know Marg Dearricott. In perhaps her best known role as the long-running secretary of the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival, Ms Dearricott has been front and centre in celebrating her close-knit community for the past 18 years. It’s that commitment to community that has seen her awarded…
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Practical support for learner drivers
Getting that all-important driver’s licence is one of those rights of passage most teenagers aspire to when they turn 16. Today’s laws require the budding driver to have 120 hours’ practise with a licensed supervising driver in the passenger seat. For any family, that takes serious dedication to the task and the ability to have…
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The nun in the cage
A recent program screened on ABC TV showed an 87-year-old Melbourne nun, confined in a cage. She was protesting the detention of refugees by Australian authorities. It was all in a day’s work for Sister Brigid Arthur – one more example of her determination to stand up on questions of social justice. For nearly seven…
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Men flee scene of crash at Kyneton
Police are searching for male offenders who left the scene of a collision in Kyneton this morning. Two or three males were travelling in a white early model Nissan Pathfinder towing a trailer carrying a motorbike when they failed to give way while crossing from Powlett Street into Piper Street about 8am. The offending vehicle…
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Ready to rock the town hall
Tex Perkins and Matt Walker are headed to Kyneton to rock the Town Hall on Saturday. Perkins has been around for a while now, The Beasts, The Cruel Sea, The Dark Horses, The Man In Black, T’n’T to name a few. He has built his reputation on a restless sense of adventure, an ability to…
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Expect to be tested for drugs and alcohol
Long weekends are high-risk periods on our roads, and the June long weekend presents additional challenges with poor visibility and wintry weather conditions. Victoria Police will be conducting Operation Regal over the four days from Friday to Monday and will be highly visible and enforcing across the state to reduce road trauma. Police will be…
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Update on power outages in New Gisborne and Riddells Creek
Powercor is working to identify the cause of power outages being experienced by some customers in the New Gisborne, Riddells Creek and surrounding areas this week. Crews are conducting forensic patrols of more than 112 kilometres of powerlines to identify the cause of the outages. Any issues detected through the patrols will be immediately addressed.…
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Sticky problem solution wins award
Eve Lamb Finding a smart solution to a sticky problem has seen Castlemaine’s Winters Flat Primary School win a significant state award. The little local school has clinched the title of Community Leadership School of the Year (Primary) at the ResourceSmart Schools Awards held in Melbourne on Friday. The annual awards celebrate the sustainability efforts…
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Bold and bright at Harcourt
Eve Lamb The weather may have taken a bleak turn but for Harcourt protea growers, Val and John Blake, there’s always something warm and bright happening in their backyard. And what a backyard it it – 30 undulating acres with panoramic views across the district. While many gardeners have been left flowerless as the mercury…