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Two grassroots sport and active recreation organisations in Macedon are set to bolster their coaching skills, administration expertise, or score new sports equipment thanks to a share in more than $6,000 from the Victorian Government.

Lake Bookar State Game Reserve, north of Camperdown, is closed to hunting from Saturday, 20 May 2023 to prevent disturbance to significant numbers of threatened Hardhead ducks. 

The Hepburn Shire Council is inviting the community to provide feedback and ideas on the future of townships around the shire as it develops township structure plans for Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, Glenlyon and Trentham.

Hi Glen, I’ve just been reading your article in The Local regarding indoor plants in winter. Our ficus has been slowly taking over the corner of our lounge room...

Work has started on a $6.148 million upgrade of Daylesford Hospital’s operating theatre.

Recently we got ChatGPT to write up a piece of editorial, which it quite frankly penned from its electronic anus. See below.

PUTTING together our education feature took me on a trip back to my school days. Mostly good memories - I was what you would call a "goody-goody" - and loved most of my teachers and was pretty much a straight A student from prep to Year 10. The wheels fell off then but that's a story I have already told.

Well hello there! I’m Gypsy and I’m a sweet affectionate gal. I’m of bull arab extraction with a bit of mix into the bargain making me a robust pooch.

The federal government has announced the members of the National Respectful Relationships Education Expert Working Group that will support the delivery of respectful relationships education in schools.

ALMOST century-old silent masterpiece of documentary filmmaking will be given new life next month when an acclaimed singer performs a “sound-track”.

All points of the compass: Living in the Central Highlands of Victoria is like being in the centre of the universe. Well, in wine terms that is. Because at every point of the compass you can drive to a different wine region that offers you a diverse and interesting day out experience.

The 5000 Club community luncheon volunteers are very heartened by the generous response from local individuals and companies to the recent article in The Local (April 24, 2023).

People could be forgiven for thinking English actor Jason Statham had taken up playing table tennis at Victoria Park in Daylesford.

Acclaimed arts couple Julie McKenzie and Malcolm King (above) have further enriched the Hepburn Shire’s rich arts scene after moving here from interstate last year. Julie is particularly renowned for her landscapes and Malcolm for his travel poster works. They are both widely collected and exhibited, and their studio has screen-printed works for some of the biggest names in Australian contemporary art.

Hepburn Shire Council is bringing in a dusk to dawn cat curfew enforceable from 1 July 2023. From that date cats must be securely confined to the owner’s property between sunset and sunrise.

The 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize has been launched by Holmgren Design with a major prize of $1000.

It is getting harder for academic cheating services to target Australian higher education students with another 100 academic cheating websites blocked.

Black-faced Suffolk sheep graze in Denver, with alpacas not far away. Nearby the grape-stripped vines are shutting down.

The Mountview Theatre was buzzing at the gala night of its second production for the year, Buried Child, on May 12.

Following its critically acclaimed production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola in 2022, Lyster Opera is now touring with the early music masterpiece The Coronation of Poppea.

OH, WHAT one could do if only given the time to think, to have the freedom from the millstone of work and social distractions. What art we could create, what books we would write.

The Hepburn Shire Council has released its $59.10 million draft budget for 2023-24, which is now open for community feedback.

The permanent relocation of Clunes Neighbourhood House to the town’s former Free Lending Library Building is poised to breathe new life into one of the town’s historically significant sites, invigorating the CBD as well.

Creswick’s upcoming Repair and Share event is pretty much what the name suggests.