Newstead
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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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Newstead calls for flashing lights
The Newstead community is lobbying Mount Alexander Shire Council in the hope of getting flashing safety lights installed to highlight the 40km/h zone near Newstead Primary School on the busy Pyrenees Highway. A document with more than 170 signatures was presented to the council at its November council meeting last week amid growing school concerns…
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Sign of the times – Churches slated for sale
A ‘sign of the times’ is the way the looming sale of two historic Uniting Churches is being described by what remains of their once-strong congregations at Yandoit and Newstead. The two historic churches are earmarked for sale with the much-diminished and ageing congregations in each location struggling to cover costs for their ongoing maintenance…
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Great effort all round
After a COVID-enforced hiatus in 2020, tin rattlers at the traffic lights and street walkers were back, collecting for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal from residents and holiday travellers throughout the Macedon Ranges and beyond. More than $18,500 was collected from the Kyneton area, with Kyneton cubs and scouts, fire brigade and residents…
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Riding out of lockdown
By Penny Gilbert CycleSafe Mount Alexander is excited to be rolling out a series of bike rides to help our community ride out of lockdown. With assistance from Healthy Heart of Victoria and Mount Alexander Shire Council we present a ride to suit everyone. In collaboration with our friends at Bike Bendigo, you’ll find a…
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Where east meets west
Lacey’s garden in Newstead is such an eclectic mix of spring profusion it’s hard to believe that when the owners arrived on site 19 years ago it was just a vacant block. Barry and Jennifer Lacey share a love of gardening and a passion for sharing that love with others. Their ‘east meets west’ garden…
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A host of golden daffodils…
Longtime Newstead locals Peter and Lilian Skillbeck have more than 2000 excellent reasons to look on the bright side of life. Earlier this year, around the time news of COVID-19 was starting to really hit home hard, Peter decided it would be a great idea to purchase a couple of thousand daffodil bulbs. “The Kyneton…
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British bike invasion
Hundreds of British bikes invaded the roads around Castlemaine over the weekend for the annual All British Bike Rally. Triumphs, Nortons, Vincents and BSAs were among the makes that rolled into Newstead Racecourse Reserve where motorcyclists camped en masse for the run organised by the BSA Motorcycle Owners Association. On Saturday Maldon’s main street served…
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Locals join fire fight
Local firies joined the fight at Bunyip State Park and Gippsland firegrounds last week. A Macedon Ranges strike team with firefighters from across the district was in force, as well as crews from Harcourt and Campbells Creek and CFA members from Castlemaine and Newstead. The strike team comprised members from the Coliban and Mountain brigade…
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Set for sound: Newstead goes live
Newstead is a town in anticipation just days out from its biggest event of the year. The annual Newstead Live Music Festival is about to triple the town’s population over this Friday evening through to Monday throughout the Australia Day long weekend. And while there’s more at the racecourse reserve, camping at the town’s oval…
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New management for Newstead pool
Bendigo Regional Young Men’s Christian Association Youth Services will manage Newstead Swimming Pool for the next three years following a council decision last week. But the Newstead committee that has managed the local pool since 1964 will still have some input into the pool’s operations in a move aimed at ensuring the community retains its…
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Devotion to duty
Newstead local Trevor Mitchell has been recognised for his bravery during a devastating fire aboard petrol tanker ship HMAS Westralia in 1998. The publican, Forty Acres Brewing co-founder and former Navy sailor was presented with a Conspicuous Service Cross by Victorian Governor the Hon Linda Dessau AC at Government House in Melbourne on September 5.…