kyneton
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A cellar door like no other
Blurring the lines between urban winery, cellar door, neighbourhood wine bar and beer garden – Musk Lane Wine is a cellar door with a difference. Different? You have probably heard that word touted before…but this is different, really different. Musk Lane Wine is a winery in the centre of Kyneton. Yes, that’s different! It’s in…
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Rationale projects 2021 opening
Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale has confirmed plans for a new headquarters in Kyneton are progressing well, with completion now projected for 2021. Plans for the $6 million facility were announced last year at the proposed 14,000sqm vacant site at the eastern gateway to Kyneton. Rationale CEO Shamini Rajarethnam said the Rationale team was “gratified…
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Farm venture up for award
Kyneton’s Melissa Connors has been nominated for the Prime Super Agricultural Innovation Award for her initiative This Farm Needs a Farmer. The initiative has become the first point of call for people making a tree-change and pairs retired or semi-retired farmers with people new to working the land to pass on their knowledge as mentors.…
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River warning lifted
A health warning applied to the Campaspe River between Kyneton and Lake Eppalock since early June was lifted on Sunday afternoon by the Environment Protection Authority. The warning had been issued after Coliban Water admitted it had been forced to make daily unauthorised releases of water unfit for stock and domestic use to the river…
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Restoration plans for Ellim-eek
An “abundance of vacant commercial properties in Kyneton” has helped secure the restoration of a circa 1906 house of heritage significance. The Edwardian single-storey brick building at 178 Mollison Street, also known as Ellim-eek, was at the centre of council debate last week over plans for a two-lot subdivision that would change its use from…
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Campaign launched to help get dog for Ester
Ester is a four-year-old girl with a big heart and a fighting spirit who suffers multiple daily epileptic seizures. The most frightening seizures occur at night when she is sleeping and can sometimes stop breathing. Ester’s cousin, Kyneton local Paige Hinneberg, said the seizures began in September 2017. “The right side of her brain was…
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Design nominated
A warehouse-style house in Kyneton is turning heads in the Building Designers Association of Victoria Building Design Awards. The contemporary look is the work of Woodend Building Design and has been nominated for People’s Choice. Architect Paul Youngs said the design was based around owner Sam Ryan’s desire for an industrial feel, with plenty of…
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Community lunch to raise awareness for Refugee Week
Kyneton’s popular community lunch will be raising funds and awareness for Refugee Week tomorrow at Kyneton Mechanics Institute 12.30pm. “We will be raising money for the Macedon Ranges Rural Australians for Refugees and are thrilled to have a representative from their group to speak at the lunch,” said Catherine Christmass, lunch coordinator. “This initiative is…
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Trades fair to move
Rumours have flown over the weekend that Kyneton is set to lose its highly successful Lost Trades Fair to Ballarat, following an anonymous post making the claim to the local Facebook page ‘Mollison Street’. Fair founders Lisa and Glen Rundell confirmed to the Midland Express that while no final decision had been made, the fair…
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Buzz about a chimney
A beehive discovered during council building renovations in Kyneton was safely relocated in a 12-hour operation last week. Bee Removals Victoria was called in to remove the hive that had formed in the chimney of the Mollison Street building and measured one and a half metres tall. “It was a decent-sized hive in an awkward…
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Golf club in land deal
Financial strain and declining membership has pressured Kyneton Golf Club to carve up part of its land in a deal with Queensland retirement village developer GemLife. The proposal is for a retirement village on about 20 acres of land including the 17th and 18th holes of the Vern Morcom designed course. Club secretary Jenny Kerr…
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Cashed-up buyers fuel house-price growth
Cashed-up buyers moving from Melbourne have helped to fuel a surge in house prices in Kyneton and the Macedon Ranges over the past 12 months. Prices in Kyneton have risen 12.7 per cent in a year to a median of $572,000. The previous 12 months’ growth was 8.2 per cent. Woodend continues to be popular…