Castlemaine
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MainFM celebrates Australian music
94.9 MainFM will be celebrating all the diversity and talent of homegrown artists with a full week dedicated to playing Australian music in honour of Australian Music Month. Celebrating everything that’s great about Australian music, listeners can expect to hear even more local content, special programs, interviews, retrospectives and playlists. “Ausmusic Week has always been…
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Orienteering champs crowned
Orienteers of all ages from across Australia and New Zealand descended on Castlemaine, Maldon, Daylesford and Blackwood for the Australian Orienteering Championships from September 24-October 2. The nine day carnival kicked off in Daylesford with the Victorian Middle Distance Championships and the Orienteering Grand Prix. September 25 the action moved to Blackwood for the Australian…
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Saving clothing from landfill
Castlemaine CWA will be holding a produce/cake stall on Thursday October 13 at Ray Bradfield Rooms to raise funds to assist them in their work to save discarded clothing from landfill. CWA members have been busy doing their bit for the environment helping to cut down on clothing going to landfill by repairing or recycling…
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Get prepared for emergency expo
Flood risk and fire season preparation will be front and centre at the Emergency Response Expo at Castlemaine’s Western Reserve this Saturday October 8. The event is expected to be bigger than ever with close to 30 organisations attending, including the SES, CFA, Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria, DELWP, Disaster Legal Help Victoria, and Wildlife Victoria.…
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Renewal raising funds for climate
Respected Central Victorian printmaker Helen Seligman is set to unveil an exhibition of her latest works at Castlemaine’s Phee Broadway Theatre foyer in the spirit of ‘Renewal’. Helen’s exhibition aims to raise funds in support of climate action organisations ‘Market Forces’, 350.org, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and the Indigenous Youth Climate Action group ‘Seed’. Seligman…
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Artist to feature on The Block
Artwork by Castlemaine’s Kylie Cuthbertson will be featured in upcoming episodes of The Block, this season filmed at South Gisborne. The artist’s work was discovered by one of the show’s producers who invited her to create pieces to offer to contestants. “House One chose a work for a room that they did,” she told Express. “After that,…
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Wood’s landscape win
Eve Lamb Castlemaine artist Greg Wood has won Victoria’s $20,000 John Lesley Art Prize. The local artist claimed the newly announced award with his oil on linen work entitled Reimagining, inspired by Castlemaine’s Forest Creek where it runs near his Chewton home. And fellow Castlemaine painter, Rob Maclaurin, also has cause for celebration as he…
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Restoration begins for old church
Mount Alexander Shire Council has begun work to repair and restore the former Wesleyan Church in Chewton. The building located at 205 Main Road, was built in the 1850s but has sat vacant since 2010, and is in a poor state of repair. In 2017 the council resolved to sell the building, however, following advocacy…
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Big clouds and back roads
Eve Lamb Art lovers can expect plenty of big clouds and back roads in the new upcoming solo exhibition by acclaimed Castlemaine painter, David Moore. Soon to launch at Maldon’s Cascade Art Gallery, Moore’s upcoming exhibition is descriptively entitled Central Victorian Landscape Paintings by David Moore and features more than 60 new works painted by…
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Run the Maine a success
Runners from across the region and beyond descended on Castlemaine on AFL grand final eve, September 23, for the annual Run The Maine fundraiser. It was the first time in two years that runners could return to the track after pandemic disruption forced the popular annual event to move to an online format. Hundreds of…
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Netballers put through their paces
Lisa Dennis Magpie netball co-coach and former Super Netball, Commonwealth Games and World Cup elite netballer Fiona Fowler conducted a free school holiday clinic for talented local netballers in the Mount Alexander Shire at Castlemaine’s Wesley Hill Netball Complex last Wednesday. The day saw around 40 netballers ranging from 15 & Under through to 17…
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Inspirational wartime women the focus of new novel
Lisa Dennis Castlemaine multi-award winning crime author Ellie Marney is in the US today for the worldwide release of her latest book, The Killing Code, based on the inspirational story of the role of female allied codebreakers in World War II. The Killing Code is a thrilling standalone historical fiction novel from the author of None Shall Sleep – which…