Castlemaine
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Hundreds turn out for testing
New COVID exposure sites across Macedon Ranges and Castlemaine led hundreds of people to front up for testing on the weekend. On late Friday afternoon the Health Department listed seven new local exposure sites including two contacts at Coles Gisborne, Gisborne’s Woks N Dumplings, McDonald’s Gisborne, Romsey Compounding Pharmacy, and Castlemaine Hospital. Most were listed…
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Podcast a finalist
Castlemaine sustainability podcast Saltgrass has been announced as a finalist for the world’s top nature media competition – the Jackson Wild Media Awards. Created by long-time MAINfm presenter Alison Hanly, Saltgrass is a fortnightly radio show and podcast spotlighting what individuals are doing to address the climate crisis within their local community. Saltgrass celebrates grassroots, bioregional change-makers – from farmers…
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Wanted: ex-prisoners for theatre project
Local men who are ex-prisoners or have personally experienced the criminal justice system are wanted to participate in an innovative new paid theatre project that’s ultimately hoped to help improve the state’s criminal justice and rehabilitation system. Local producer with the Out Alive arts and justice project in Castlemaine is community arts facilitator Lisa D’Onofrio.She says the…
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Mysterious marsupials
La Trobe University researchers have caught on camera one of Victoria’s most elusive and threatened marsupials – revealing there’s more brush-tailed phascogales living in central Victoria than previously thought. The study, recently published in Austral Ecology, used nesting boxes combined with heat-sensing cameras to determine how prevalent the extremely shy, fast-moving creature is in the box-ironbark…
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Pharmacists join the vaccine rollout
Castlemaine pharmacists expect to begin administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from this week. Late last week the town’s Thomas and Chong and the McKenzie Davey pharmacies each confirmed they had received stocks of the AstraZenaeca vaccine.And both anticipate their trained staff will be administering jabs in arms by the end of this week. “The main…
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Yes in my backyard
A trial neighbourhood solution to reducing organics in landfill will be expanded thanks to a $60,000 grant from the Victorian Government’s Recycling Communities Fund.The YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) model, run by The Hub Foundation in Castlemaine, aims to connect people through small hubs, nurtured by a small team of community composters. The community composters…
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Falcons have landed in Castlemaine
Castlemaine is getting ready to cheer on its first women’s footy team – the Mount Alexander Falcons.There has already been a strong wave of interest only days after the Falcons were unveiled online by the new Mount Alexander Women’s Sports Club, and excitement within the new club is mounting as it gets ready to host…
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The Last Days of Loneliness to premiere in Castlemaine
Set to premiere at Castlemaine’s Northern Arts Hotel on August 1, the latest film by Aussie filmmaker Saidin Salkic co-stars Castlemaine resident John Flaus.The Last Days of Loneliness was also partly shot in Castlemaine.The 51-minute arthouse feature film deals with enduring themes of loneliness, the need for human connection and mortality. “It’s a narrative feature film…
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Denise in the hot seat
Well-known Castlemaine local Denise Button is set to appear on the Nine network’s Millionaire Hot Seat.While not revealing too much about the outcome, the popular game show’s producers say the Castlemaine publicist and events manager will be vying to win $50,000. “I just decided to go on the show to have a fun day out,” Denise…
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A ‘maine hand in Melb film fest
A film edited by ‘maine local Bergen O’Brien is poised to premiere as part of Australia’s acclaimed Melbourne International Film Festival that’s expanding to eight regional centres – including Castlemaine.Prolific film and TV series editor, Castlemaine-based O’Brien spent last year in lockdown editing the documentary film Hating Peter Tatchell, which stars Stephen Fry and Ian McKellen,…
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‘Heavenly trio’ up for sale
Castlemaine’s grand historic Presbyterian Church at 11-13 Lyttleton Street is being sold out of church hands for the first time since it was built in 1894 – alongside its imposing old manse residence and original church hall. Waller Realty director Rob Waller said the unique and historic sale was attracting significant interest with multiple interested…