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Creswick Theatre Company has been having a wickedly good time preparing to stage dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace.

A Biggest Morning Tea will be held at Plaistow Homestead at Joyces Creek, near Newstead, tomorrow, Thursday, May 25 from 10am to 12.30pm. The event is hosted there by Lilian and Peter Skilbeck.

Things are gonna' get jazzy at the Daylesford Hotel this Saturday night.

Melbourne muso Karlo Arcinue is headed to the Daylesford Hotel to perform live this Thursday evening May 25.

Transportive and with a penchant for drama, Taylah Carroll wants to lay the world before her listener; a world she characterises neatly as: “a 60s Parisian detective, meets dystopian desert cowgirl”.

Registrations are now open for the Future Drought Fund's Science to Practice Forum happening online over June 6-8.

Hepburn shire farmers and others state-wide are being invited to join next month's wind erosion webinar with Agriculture Victoria's Mallee monitoring wind erosion project team and seasonal risk agronomist Dale Grey.

Agriculture Victoria is offering young farmers and those new to farming the opportunity to take part in a Young Farmer Business Bootcamp with the next to be held in Netherby next month.

The Ag Vic 2023 BestWool/BestLamb Conference will be held at the Bendigo Showgrounds on Tuesday 20 June.

Hepburn Shire farmers are being welcomed to get along to an irrigation course hosted by Agriculture Victoria at Irymple, near Mildura, next month.

Primary producers and keen gardeners in Hepburn Shire are being encouraged to get along to this month's free half day drip maintenance course.

Victorian gardeners are being urged to keep watch for the highly invasive weed water hyacinth following a recent discovery in a residential garden pond.

An animal welfare case against a Girgarre farmer has been resolved following a plea in the Shepparton Magistrates Court recently.

Volunteers are needed for the Plains-wanderer song meter program and while Hepburn Shire locals do not live in its habitat they're being invited to get involved to help save the critically endangered species.

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Geographic Names Victoria formally gazetted the renaming of the Jim Crow Creek to Larni Barramal Yaluk in the Victorian Government Gazette last week.

From cattle to cropping, Glenlyon to Gippsland, and everything in between, Agriculture Victoria is on the hunt for this year's Footy's Favourite Farmer, with some attractive prizes up for grabs.

Victorians have already saved millions of dollars on public transport fares last month after the state government's regional fare cap came into effect.

Hepburn Shire residents with burning issues on their chest are about to get several prime opportunities to air them.

The Macedon Ranges Shire Council will continue to receive public submissions to guide its community equestrian facilities plan up to May 28.

The Hepburn Shire Council has awarded $25,320 to support community-led projects in the latest round of funding through its community grants program.

The Macedon Ranges Shire Council is inviting community feedback on a combined planning scheme amendment and planning application that would see a long-envisaged development of commercial land on Willowbank Road to service the needs of residents in Gisborne’s south.

The Macedon Ranges Shire Council is preparing a master plan to guide the future management of the Woodend Racecourse Reserve and will continue to receive public input up to May 28.

The Hepburn Shire Council has launched a new quarterly Sustainable Hepburn electronic newsletter to keep the community and stakeholders up to date with progress on the Sustainable Hepburn Strategy.