All are invited to get along to two upcoming Australia Day events organised by local community groups in the Hepburn Shire and taking place on Australia Day, Sunday January 26. At Trentham there will be a flag raising ceremony with a community BBQ and entertainment. taking place from 10am in the town square. At Creswick, […]

Artists for next April’s CresFest have been announced with a huge diversity of music and acts in store for the award winning folk and roots festival. Headliners for the April 4-6 festival that’s set to transform the township of Creswick, range from Neil Murray, The Maes and Queenslands’ Joe Geia to Grace Barbe from the […]

If the first day of 2025 at Glenlyon was anything to go by, the year ahead is looking pretty good… The annual Glenlyon New Year’s Sports Day was a ripper. And the Glenlyon Sports Club have the photos to prove it. Posting on social media, the club records that “it was full on New Year’s […]

Photographer Ian Kemp will present a free talk at Maryborough’s Central Goldfields Art Gallery tomorrow Saturday, January 18 at 2pm. Mr Kemp will share insights into the background, process and ideas behind his photographs which are currently on display at the gallery. As a fine art photographer, he will discuss how he decides on the […]

The Ballarat Aquatic and Lifestyle Centre (BALC) has introduced a vital initiative to equip children aged six to 14 years with essential survival skills in open water.  Set to start on Monday January 20, the new Inland Water Safety Program is designed to increase children’s awareness of risks in unpredictable aquatic environments and arm them […]

A total 994 animals were adopted from the Ballarat Animal Shelter last year, including 638 cats and kittens, 352 dogs and puppies, three rabbits and even a pig, who has gone on to live on a farm with other pigs and farm animals.   A new report shows that June 2024 was a bumper month […]

Tennis fans from across the globe have been flocking to Melbourne where the job-creating, record-smashing Australian Open is now in full swing. This year the women’s final is set for Saturday, January 25. The men’s final, a day later, will take place on Sunday, January 26. The men’s and women’s singles champions will each earn […]

Dear reader, After more than 60 years of writing and broadcasting on both radio and television, telling you what I thought you should know about growing the ‘perfect  garden’, my creaking joints, fading memory, and caring spouse, tell me it’s about time to wind back.   Hence this note and changed format. So for you […]

By Donna Kelly   Went for a bit of a roadtrip over the silly season. Up to family at Port Macquarie, then to Queensland for more family time, and then back down again.   We took the Tesla and it was a lot of fun. Mostly. There’s an EV thing called range anxiety. It happens […]

Don’t you hate sentences that start with I’m not a — but,…They are often followed with things like I’m not a racist but, or I’m not homophobic but.   Well, if you do, please don’t read any further because I’m not a conspiracy theorist but hearing the news about Trumpy and his sidekick Elon trying […]

Newstead Live is held in the town’s various venues  from January 24 to 27.   The festival of music features The Troubadour live music venue & wine bar, concerts, sessions, blackboard  spots, workshops, Australia’s original trad disco and  pool party, good food, camping, spacious setting and no sound spill between venues.   Newstead Live offers […]

with Eve Lamb The Three Lost Children Walk. Daylesford-Musk Creek 15 km (Part A) The first day of 2025 dawns sunny and mild, temperature in the mid-20s with a promise to reach no more than 28 degrees. Ideal bushwalking. Too good to pass up. I check in with my trusty walking companion, Paddy H, and […]