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Cricket club gains support
Hanging Rock Cricket Club has been offered Liberal Party support in its fight to continue to play cricket at its long-held home ground at Hanging Rock Reserve. The club is fighting to keep its place at the Rock after state government draft masterplan recommended its relocation amid plans for environmental rehabilitation and the development of…
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Dog rescued from mineshaft
A dog had to be rescued from a mineshaft near Castlemaine by a specialist CFA team last Saturday morning. The CFA’s Oscar 1 mine rescue unit was called in from Bendigo to retrieve the poodle cross from the mineshaft in Specimen Gully Road. CFA Oscar 1 team leader Daniel McMahon said the dog had wandered…
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Macedon Ranges sports hub pledge welcomed
The Labor Party has announced it will invest $15 million to help complete the Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Precinct if voted in at the next federal election. McEwen MP Rob Mitchell and Shadow Minister for Cities and Urban Infrastructure Andrew Giles announced the pledge at New Gisborne today. “I know how much this precinct will…
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Countdown to Dialogues…
Castlemaine State Festival’s Dialogues 2022 event kicks off this Thursday with a visit by special guests Bill and Chloe Shorten at The Goods Shed. The theme of the second Dialogues series is ‘Change Your Thinking’ and will see dynamic writers and theorists from a diverse range of fields come together for a collaborative reflection on the issues of ‘Change’.…
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Follow the autumn food trail
Kyneton is one of nine towns participating in the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival. There are so many great events and activities, including many that are free, celebrating the harvest season! Start your weekend at Kyneton Farmers Market – a one stop destination for autumn food highlights. Apples make up half the world’s deciduous fruit harvest…
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The impact of betrayal of trust
It was Albert Einstein who said, “whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”. Has our ability to trust the people and organisations we uphold most – in leadership, in the media, in the workplace and in our daily lives – changed? Or have we become less tolerant…
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PRECINCT NEED CRITICAL
Sporting clubs are crying out for federal funding to complete the Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Precinct as local facilities overflow. Macedon Ranges Shire Council seeks $21 million for stage two of the project that’s been years in demand. While there was no mention of the sports precinct in the Federal Budget handed down last week,…
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Pedestrian hit by truck
A Woodend woman was critically injured when she was hit by a tipper truck at Gisborne last Friday afternoon. Police said the truck was travelling north into the township at the intersection of Aitken Street and Hamilton Street when it struck the woman as she was crossing Aitken Street just before 5pm. She was dragged…
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Golden oldies roll in
Eve Lamb You could have been forgiven for thinking you’d been whisked back to a time when having a set of wheels meant something like a Ford Model T Tourer or a Willys Overland Whippet. Fifty pre-1930s vintage beauties were front and centre, as their doting owners showed them off during a special visit that…
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Light up Kyneton
The first major event for the 2022 Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival is the colourful light show ‘Light up Kyneton’ on the Kyneton Mechanics Institute on Friday April 8 from 7pm. This date provides a great opportunity after the end of daylight savings for the light show and will give the families of the children…
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An abundance of botanical art
The Macedon Ranges has always stimulated a love of nature and an engagement with the natural world that has attracted gardeners and artists for more than a century. To celebrate its centennial year, the Mount Macedon Horticultural Society is conducting a month-long program of events at the Mount Macedon Horticultural Hall to coincide with the…
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Gerri’s Journey
Eve Lamb Chances are you may have seen them as they passed through Castlemaine last week. Twelve blistered but very determined walkers who stopped for a lunch break at Victory Park as they walked all the way from Ballarat’s Mount Buninyong to Bendigo. A bit of leg weariness was not about to stop them as…