Woodend
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Flint Hill to support Woodend Fire Brigade
Woodend’s Flint Hill garden promises a captivating botanical experience and is opening to the public this Saturday to raise funds for the Woodend Fire Brigade. This is a one-off chance to visit one of the finest gardens in the state, which includes mature trees and plantings that are listed on the National Trust tree register. …
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Ballet’s rising star: Laura Griffiths puts Australian Ballet under a spell
Gisborne-raised ballet dancer Laura Griffiths has returned home from London as one of the newest arrivals to The Australian Ballet.
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Braemar plants for a purpose
Samantha Lisle and Lucy Sykes, year eight, Braemar CollegeTerm three has been busy for a group of year eight students at Braemar College who worked in partnership with Newham Landcare to plant 180 indigenous plants at the school’s Woodend campus. This project was a part of a community service initiative to replenish an area of…
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Be enthralled by creepy crawlies
Prepare to be enthralled by all things creepy crawly when the National Insect Expo returns to Woodend this coming weekend. Expo director Bert Candusio said the response from exhibitors and more than 6000 people who attended last year’s expo was amazing. “So we planned early to give an even greater expo this year,” he said.…
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Skateboarding the globe
Expertise in skate park development has taken Woodend resident Wade Trevean around the world but he is calling on home to assist his latest venture. He is a lead volunteer on a project to fundraise and build a safe skate park for community connection in Dili, Timor Leste. “Following the 1999 vote for independence from…
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Woodend centre to stay open
Woodend Customer Service Centre will remain open with reduced operating hours after facing potential closure. Macedon Ranges Shire Council voted in favour of the move last week following community feedback in favour of keeping the Woodend service. The facility’s viability was in question when it recorded low visitation alongside other operational challenges such as cost…
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Auctioneer’s milestone
Woodend veteran real estate agent John Keating last week marked his 50-year anniversary as an auctioneer with the sale of an 89-hectare farm at Romsey for $2.85M. John’s first auction on June 15, 1973 was for the sale of a 34-hectare farm in the Kerrie Valley. The auction was conducted in the Kerrie Hall and…
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Woodend in for top title
Woodend has been named a finalist in the 2023 TAC Victorian Top Tourism Town Awards. The Macedon Ranges town is competing for the top title in the small regional Victorian town category alongside Heathcote, Koroit and Sorrento. Award finalists have demonstrated a strong commitment to tourism, excellent visitor experience, and strong collaboration with tourism operators,…
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Bendigo Bank Woodend agency to close
Bendigo Bank’s agency operating from the Woodend Newsagency will close on June 17. It comes after the last of Woodend’s physical bank branches, the Commonwealth Bank, closed its premises last year. A spokesperson for Bendigo and Adelaide Bank said the closure followed a detailed review of transaction activity, evolving customer banking habits and declining numbers…
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Learn to propagate
Woodend’s Grow Locals is offering free workshops in propagating and healthy grasses to help celebrate their first year in business. “We’ve always had the idea to establish an environmental educational component to the business and aim to expand this into schools, local landcare groups and the broader public,” production manager Tully Sumner said. “We are…
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‘Don’t stop us now’
The Woodend Warblers are inviting new members with an open rehearsal next week. The acapella group has a zest for music that continues to grow with direction of local choir leader Andrew Price. Formed in 2018 and with just less than 20 members at the first rehearsal, the choir has continued to grow not only…
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AO for Woodend’s Professor Tonge
Bruce Tonge’s ground-breaking work in child psychiatry over five decades has focused on autism spectrum disorders and behavioural and emotional disturbance in children with intellectual disability. The Woodend-based Emeritus Professor has been named an Officer of the Order of Australia in this year’s Australia Day Honours in acknowledgement of his service to research and education…