Castlemaine
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Bringing voices together
Eve Lamb International Women’s Day will be celebrated in Castlemaine with an evening of live entertainment on Tuesday March 8. The event is being hosted at the Northern Arts Hotel and will feature plenty of live music with a lineup of talented local musos on the evening’s program that will get started from 7pm. Those…
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A tiny house journey
Gaining a ute-load of nifty building skills has been one of the biggest bonuses of building a tiny house for Castlemaine’s Rainer Cook Tonkin. The uni student started building his own tiny abode back in mid-2020, with a little help from his carpenter father, Bernard Tonkin. The Express visited Rainer and his tiny house project shortly after…
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New chapter for Soldier and Scholar
It’s just shy of two decades since Joyce Sanders opened her character-packed bookshop on Castlemaine’s Barker Street. The Soldier and Scholar second-hand store rapidly became a favourite shopping experience for bibliophiles from near and far. But time marches on, and so it appears will the inimitable Soldier and Scholar and its well-read owner who hails…
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Bike workshops now in Castlemaine and Newstead
For the fourth year in a row the On Your Bike! school holiday program, supporting teens and tweens to ride safely to school, will be hosted by CycleSafe Mount Alexander. This year the group has extended the workshop to cover two towns – Castlemaine and Newstead. Newstead’s newly sign-posted tracks by the ‘Walks and Wheels’…
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Castlemaine juniors ready to soar in 2022
The Castlemaine Football Netball Club Juniors have appointed all coaches for the 2022 season. CFNC Juniors president Chris Mackenzie said it is reassuring to have appointed their coaches well before the start of the season. “We have secured a talented group of coaches, all of whom believe that their job is not only to develop…
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Turning waste to work
A Castlemaine business is setting a groundbreaking example by re-using its industrial waste, reducing the volume of material going to landfill and creating a valuable new product to boot. At its factory site in Castlemaine’s Fitzgerald Close, Like Butter makes furniture and, keen to do the right thing by the environment, it recently started a…
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Jazz talent returns home
US jazz talent Gemma Sherry has returned home to Castlemaine for the holidays and is planning to do some gigs in Daylesford and Melbourne next month to promote her latest album Music To Dream To. Sherry told the Express it was great to see her family after two and a half long years. “It’s been wonderful to spend…
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Check off that Christmas list
Castlemaine traders will be open late again this Friday evening as part of two late night shopping nights that have been coordinated by Business Mount Alexander and supported by Mount Alexander Shire Council in partnership with the Castlemaine Fringe Festival and local businesses. Business operators will be open until 8pm providing the perfect opportunity to…
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A little French tête-à-tête
Friday mornings mean just one thing for a growing group of Castlemaine locals – time for a little French tête-à-tête. Originally from France, Delphine Laboureau-Ormancey is a dual citizen who last year returned to Guildford after a 20-year absence. The French language teacher and tutor has now introduced regular weekly French chat and coffee sessions…
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COVID test clinic shifts
While more than 95 per cent of eligible people living in Castlemaine have now been double vaxxed, the town’s newly relocated COVID testing clinic is experiencing strong demand for testing, particularly from people who’ve attended exposure sites. The drive-through clinic last week shifted from where it had been operating in Mostyn Street to the McGrath…
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Local stars shine at MVAs
Soul virtuosos Emma Donovan & The Putbacks were the standout triumph at the 2021 Music Victoria Awards. The group, which has a local connection, scooped up three awards at the 17th annual event at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday evening including Best Soul, Funk, R’n’B or Gospel Act, Best Group, and Best Album for…
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Debut album drops
Castlemaine singer/songwriter Nadia Phillips has launched her highly anticipated debut album A Million Birds and One Stone. The EP has hit Bandcamp and music streaming services just as the talented 19-year-old, now based in Melbourne, and band The Girlfriends prepare to join fellow Castlemaine artists Dallas Woods and Galaxy Hop as part of the ‘Comin’ Down…