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Stories for a perilous now

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Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky and Penny Glass will bring their latest show to the Fringe. Photo: Clive Willman.

What happens when a storyteller/musician who specialises in Australian stories teams up with an actor/musician/ theatre worker who for 23 years has been creating theatre in a Chilean men’s prison? The...

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What can make a world of difference?

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Jesus said, “How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing” (Luke 13:34). By the time St Luke pens these words of Jesus...

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What’s On, March 28, 2025

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Twilight Fete The Campbells Creek Primary School will be holding its biennial Twilight Fete this evening, March 28. The school invites the wider community to come along to the popular event and help t...

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Co-op go for ‘The Hub’

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The Castlemaine Community Co-operative is forging ahead with plans to purchase ‘The Hub’ at the corner of Barker and Templeton Streets.

The 174 member strong Castlemaine Community Co-operative has negotiated a sale price for purchasing and preserving Castlemaine’s historic building, ‘The Hub’. The co-operative will use a type of loan ...

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A spectacular start!

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Castlemaine Fringe literally lit up the streets of Castlemaine with projections, colour, dance and performance at Saturday’s opening. Photo: Diana Domonkos.

Castlemaine’s streets were alive with excitement over the weekend, as the 2025 Castlemaine Fringe Festival kicked off with a bang! The Opening Night Street Party Spectacular, held last Saturday March ...

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Hitting the road for HALT

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Jason Lester (left) is riding from Yeppoon in QLD to Yapeen in Victoria to raise money for HALT - a local grass-roots suicide prevention program coordinated by Jeremy Forbes (right).

Local chippy Jason Lester is raising money to support a grass-roots suicide prevention charity by cycling 2,600 kilometres from Yeppoon in Northern Queensland to his home in Yapeen, Victoria. Jason ma...

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Roads and assets in the spotlight

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Mount Alexander Shire Council is inviting residents to review and share their feedback on the draft Road Management Plan and draft Asset Plan. The draft Road Management Plan outlines council’s role an...

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Illegal tyre dump sparks a statewide EPA operation

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The discovery of an illegal dump full of old tyres at Lockwood South has put EPA Victoria’s investigators on the trail to a network of other properties with possible connections to the scam. EPA offic...

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Books & Bubbles!

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Sydney author Catherine Greer received a warm welcome at the Books and Bubbles event in Castlemaine last weekend.

A sold-out Books and Bubbles event was held at the Northern Books headquarters during the opening weekend of the 2025 Castlemaine Fringe Festival. Northern Books' Kristin and Graham Gill were delighte...

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Vote wisely

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Trevor Scott, Castlemaine Is it compulsory for politicians to do a course in dishonesty or is avoiding the truth par for the course for most parliamentarians? As cyclone Alfred approached the Australi...

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My Campbells Creek with Brian McCormick

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If you've had anything to do with the Castlemaine Men's Shed then you'll likely know Brian McCormick. Brian, who has been involved since the beginning, said that Men's Sheds are an outlet for a lot o...

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Countdown to soccer season

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The Castlemaine Goldfields sides welcome local girls, women and non-binary players to join them for season 2025.

Castlemaine Goldfields Football Club is inviting girls, women and non-binary players to join their teams for the 2025 season. With a projected two Under 16 girls teams and two Senior/Youth women's tea...

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