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Daylesford is getting its own adult drama classes, run by local theatre company Lab Kelpie.

Cylists across the region are being invited to brush off their best fetching tweed outfits and prepare to participate in Ballarat’s annual Tweed Ride which returns Saturday May 18 as part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival.

The Gisborne & District Bowling Club can welcome more players all year round following the opening of a new synthetic rink at the club on Friday 5 April.

Members of the Hepburn Springs Golf Club have approved the acquisition of their golf course and assets by Golf Services Management.

The Great Takeaway 24 is a chance for visitors to dine using some of the finest materials, textiles, glassware and ceramics produced in the Ballarat region – and then take the handcrafted materials home with them.

Songwriter Skyscraper Stan is returning to Palais-Hepburn on Saturday April 27 for a repeat solo performance.

Professor Diane Kirkby is presenting a guest talk on the socio-political history of women running pubs in Australia at Ballarat's Eureka Centre on Thursday May 2.

Ballarat is preparing to host its popular annual antique fair next mnth as part of the city's heritage festival.

Nella is one very lucky rolden retriever after being retrieved herself, from a very hairy predicament earlier this month.

One of Australia’s leading historians, Professor Marilyn Lake AO will present a talk on colonial radicalism and democratic equality as part of next month's Ballarat Heritage fetival.

Regional brigade administrative support officer and CFA volunteer with Orbost brigade and Orbost’s Group Secretary, Kylie Findley is happy to help anyone who walks into her office – staff or volunteer.

The CFA has led a multi-agency exercise to test and strengthen how emergency services respond to mass casualty incidents similar to the 2023 Eynesbury bus incident.

Despite popular belief, the practice of growing bonsai actually began, not in Japan, but in China when around the year 700, a group of avid gardeners began using special techniques to create miniaturised trees in small containers and so developed a practice called “pun-sai”.

If you look closely at a label from the wine producer Sutton Grange its motto or byline is 'wines that stand alone’ and tasting through their line-up recently they lived up to their name.

Ballarat area business owners can now shift to a new 100 per cent renewable energy program to cut their emissions and costs via two programs – the Business Renewables Buyers Group and the Ballarat Energy Network.

Two Macedon Ranges Shire Council programs driving sustainable agriculture practices and waste reduction measures have been announced as finalists in the 2024 LGPro Awards for Excellence.

With council elections set for October, the MunicipalAssociation of Victoria will be running information sessions for prospective candidates.

Japan is a country of juxtapositions. A Fuji photo booth sitting next to a plethora of vending machines offering porn magazines, smokes and booze in the middle of a rice paddy with a handful of workers and nobody else around sums it up for me.

From his earlier days as a rock musician and his years at the prestigious Academy of Art in Dresden, Germany - to his new upcoming exhibition at the Convent Gallery, Daylesford’s Monty Osewald is the sort of vivacious talent whose creative work gets noticed wherever he goes. His personal story could be described as fiery, even phoenix-like. Ahead of his new show that opens later this month, he shared a little of that story.

A long, long time ago, just after the dinosaurs disappeared and the wheel was invented, I lived in Japan.

The Clunes writers group is a diverse lot so it’s little wonder that their new anthology has something in it to appeal to just about every kind of reader.

"Meet you at the Bowlo," has been a part of Daylesford’s dinning vocabulary for many, many years.

Japan must be one of the most popular destinations for Australians, if the newspaper and magazine advertising is anything to go by. And for good reason.

Creswick’s CFA brigade team has put in an impressive effort at the recent State Firefighter Championships, showing plenty of promise ahead for this young competitive running crew.