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The Clunes Landcare and Waterways Group is preparing to plant and inviting everyone to get along to an upcoming series of working bees beside the Creswick Creek at Clunes. 

“This would have to be the classic Daylesford walk,” enthuses Paddy H as we head off beneath an ominous sky to sample the Two Lakes 8km loop. 

After 30 years Kyle Barnes and Donna Kelly returned to Hamilton Island, the place where they met while working on this tropical paradise.

Life is looking up as Dean gets set to stage its annual kite festival. 

Radical Fields, an emerging contemporary arts group based in the Central Highlands has launched its winter fundraiser and is accepting tax deductible donations until July 24. 

Gryphon Baryton Trio - Laura Vaughan, baryton, Katie Yap, viola and Josephine Vains, cello - will perform Divertimento, music by Joseph Haydn at Daylesford's Christ Church on Saturday, July 27.

A GoFundMe fundraiser has been set up to help a young Clunes girl achieve her dream of becoming a jiu jitsu world champion.

Trentham is preparing to ramp up the seasonal atmosphere and sparkle as  the town hosts its inaugural Winterfest event.

As part of the Maldon in Winter program MANet Gallery invited 33 local  artists to participate in a group show, together with the eight regular MANet  artists.

Tireless volunteer Kate Redwood will step away when her current term ends with the Central Highlands Rural Health Board of Management to focus on new projects closer to home.

Victoria Police has issued an urgent road safety warning to all motorists following a horror period on Victorian roads over recent days.

Detectives from the Armed Crime Squad have charged a man following a non-fatal shooting in Sebastopol last month.

The experience of community members being talked over at an ageing conference was the spark that inspired the theme of a new short film shot in Clunes.

The Block is heading to Daylesford next year. Executive producer Julian Cress confirmed the Raglan Street site in a statement reported on by 9Entertainment last week.

Bullarto-based Oberon Suffolk Sheep Stud collected numerous category wins at last month’s Victorian Sheep Show.

Fern Hill's Lauretta Hanson is heading to Paris for the 2024 Olympics. The road cyclist will compete in the women’s road cycling event on August 4, alongside teammates Grace Brown and Ruby Roseman-Gannon. 

Ballarat police have been appealing for public assistance to help locate missing man Luke.

AFL Victoria has announced that the City of Ballarat will host the 2024 V/Line Cup, the annual representative carnival for the best under 15 boys and girls footballers from regional Victoria.

The City of Greater Bendigo has launched its new 2024 Ignite program, including the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, the Bendigo Writers Festival, Bendigo on the Hop, a Winter Moonlight Market in Hargreaves Mall, and a wide range of gastronomy offerings to delight.

A big summer of cricket is building at Mount Clear, Ballarat.

Local landowners are being encouraged to sign up for the upcoming Healthy Landscapes Holistic Grazing Management short course now taking applications until July 28, for the next group of students.

The Buninyong Players are preparing to present a variety of lively medieval to baroque music from early opera, royal courts and the troubadour tradition at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub this month.

The long-awaited restoration of the Hercules statue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens has now commenced thanks to a generous community donation.  

The Hepburn Shire Council has secured extra funding of $10,000 through the Victoria State Government’s 2024 Seniors Festival Active Living Fund to deliver Seniors Festival events this October.