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Frame Game

Have you ever noticed the frame around your favourite painting? Frames can completely change the way an artwork looks. In a free public event...

PoetiCas to welcome Melbourne poet

Melbourne poet Emilie Collyer will feature at the PoetiCas reading in August. This monthly event will be held on Saturday August 23 at Northern Arts...

Fears Harcourt project has gone off the rails

Nationals’ Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad has called on the Allan Labor Government to provide an update on the planned reopening of the...

Local Lives Global Matters – Community conversation on achievements and re-visioning 10 years on

How do you bring together more than 100 conversations in and around Castlemaine and Daylesford in 10 venues over three days enabling an abundant...

Handbook explores the concept of Degrowth

Degrowth Central Victoria (DCV) activist and scholar Anitra Nelson has recently returned from a whirlwind tour of Europe promoting her latest book on the...

Push back on industrial broiler farm

The Castlemaine–Maryborough Rail Trail (CMRT) committee, along with landholders, neighbours, farmers, Central Goldfields and Mount Alexander Shires and VicTrack have lodged formal objections with...
Victoria Police have arrested a man in relation to the 1994 murder of Castlemaine mum Samantha Mizzi.

Cold case breakthrough in Castlemaine woman’s death

Homicide Squad detectives have charged a man in relation to the death of Castlemaine woman and mother of two, Samantha Mizzi, in St Kilda...

Fitness centre future unclear

Late last month, the Castlemaine Fitness Centre building was seized by the Sheriff's Office. The doors to the facility were padlocked and trespass notices...

Homes or habitat: Does it need to be a choice between one or the...

McKenzie Hill residents have expressed their shock and disappointment about the mass clearing of trees and vegetation on a five-block subdivision in Diamond Gully...

‘Level Up Against Car Theft’ campaign launched

Crime Stoppers Victoria and Victoria Police are urging all Victorians to take an active role in protecting their vehicles, as part of a new...

DON proud supporters of Run The Maine

Run The Maine is back for its 17th edition on September 26, 2025 and DON KR Castlemaine is once again proud to be a...
Left: (former owners) Ezra, Sana, Patricia, Paul. Right: (incoming owners) Marcus, Peg, Lisa and Stan (new owners). Photos by Penny Ryan.

Passing the sourdough baton

For the past 19 years, Paul Demchy and Patricia Cridge have tirelessly and lovingly shaped and moulded Sprout Bakery into the community institution it...

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