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Third time lucky for Gascoyne at Hanging Rock
Before New Year’s Day, Kyneton owner-trainer Glen Gascoyne had only ever taken two horses to race at Hanging Rock. On both occasions he went home disappointed. Kangaroos on the track led to one meeting being called off, and an undetected hole in the home straight caused that meeting to be abandoned. Gascoyne’s luck changed last…
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Police investigating Clarkefield car fire
Police are investigating after a car was found abandoned and burning on a roadside in Clarkefield during the early hours of yesterday morning. CFA crews from Clarkefield, Riddells Creek and Bolinda responded at 3am on Tuesday to Konagaderra Road and extinguished the blaze, which had spread onto adjacent grass. Clarkefield CFA captain Brian Boyle said…
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Treaty – a journey best taken together
Jade Jungwirth Members of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria visited Castlemaine on Sunday to host a yarning circle about the Victorian treaty. The clubrooms at the Castlemaine Bowling Club were jam-packed with local community members and First Nation allies, all keen to discuss ways they could aid the statewide treaty process. Representatives of the…
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Move the needle men
Chiropractic Life Kyneton is hosting a free men’s health evening on Wednesday October 25 with Jeremy Forbes from HALT as guest speaker. The workshop will discuss common symptoms and health issues that men suffer, and provide solutions on how to take ownership of your health. “Being healthy is quite simple, but challenging to apply,” chiropractor…
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Motor home destroyed in fire
A motor home was destroyed in a shed fire at Malmsbury yesterday afternoon. CFA brigades from Malmsbury, Taradale, Elphinstone and Kyneton responded to the scene just before 4.30pm, as the blaze engulfed the shed’s contents including the motor home. Large amounts of smoke could be seen across the local area, prompting additional support to be…
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Close finish in Woodend Cup
After scratchings, there may have been only five runners in the $30,000 Massey Ferguson Woodend Cup on Saturday, but a tactically run race produced an interesting finish with four of the runners finishing close together. Victory went to the $2 favourite Catskill Mountain, ridden by Dean Holland, with 2023 Hanging Rock Cup winner Bannerton ($3.90)…
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Meeting labelled a sham
Campaspe River landowners have labelled a Coliban Water community meeting held via zoom last week a “sham”. The meeting was advertised as being held to discuss a proposed Environment Protection Authority licence amendment in relation to discharges of wastewater from the Kyneton Water Reclamation Plant to the river, but participants were not given any detail…
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Cheese please! A new venture for Castlemaine
A new artisan cheesemaker and cheese school is being establishing in Castlemaine, adding an additional attraction to the town’s Mill complex and tapping into newly emergent demand. Building work is well underway to develop existing premises in the site’s specialty food and beverage precinct. The Cheese School and artisan cheesemaking enterprise – Long Paddock Cheese…
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Campaspe River landowners unimpressed with offsets project
A Coliban Water project aimed at improving water quality in the Campaspe River has left local landowners unimpressed. Coliban Water is investing $2.1 million in the Kyneton Offsets Project for fencing and revegetation works along the river. The project originally formed part of an application from Coliban Water to change its Environmental Protection Authority licence…
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Man wanted, police car rammed in Romsey
Police are on the hunt for a man who rammed a police car with a stolen vehicle in Romsey yesterday and fled the scene. Sargent Mark Sims said police had located a silver Kluger in Romsey believed to have been stolen six weeks ago from the southern-metro area. Sgt Sims said police had received several…
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Kyneton’s Lost Trades Fair move to Bendigo confirmed
Kyneton will no longer host the popular Lost Trades Fair as organisers sign up for the next three years in Bendigo. City of Greater Bendigo mayor Margaret O’Rourke announced yesterday that Bendigo Racecourse would host the 2020 fair in March. The news follows reports of organisers seeking a new location and sounding out the City…
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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…