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Inner Melbourne original jazz stalwarts, the Reg Cole Quartet, are realising a decades-old dream in playing their original music at the historic Palais- Hepburn on Good Friday.

The Ukulele Death Squad has grown bigger and better since its 2017 inception, bringing a frenetic energy to the uke with their own flamenco, R&B and folk style.

Volunteering to help out with staging The Great Trentham Spudfest has been a great way to make new friends and connect with the community for tree changer Belinda Tynan.

Easter Saturday is a special day in Blackwood. Each year, the town hosts the Blackwood Woodchop & Easter Carnival, now in its 121st year, and the second-oldest festival in Australia. The event was recently awarded the title of Moorabool Shire’s Community Event of the Year 2023.

AS A a paramedic, Baydon Beddoe says he picks up the injured by ambulance. As a boxer, he says, he knocks ‘em down.

MY dining companion (Paddy H) and I are ravenous as we enter the Daylesford Hotel for lunch, mid Monday, me having done a gruelling morning group weights class and Paddy having arisen well before 11am.

DAYLESFORD artist and musician Vanessa Craven has just published a children’s colour picture song book, Birds in My Tree: The Magic of Birds and the Joy of Singing.

IT'S been said that “clothes maketh the man” – and there’s little doubt that applies for women as well. But sometimes obtaining snappy threads, so essential to making a vital good first impression, is easier said than done. That’s where Thread Together comes in...

PHOTOGRAPHY in the 21st Century is a remarkably easy medium to engage with. Every phone has a camera and digital technology, including editing and digital filters which can generate results that satisfy most people.

This Easter is a great chance to support Daylesford and surrounds annual Good Friday Appeal raising funds for The Royal Children’s Hospital.

Music students from Daylesford Primary School, Daylesford College, and Ballarat's Loreto College were thrilled to meet Canadian superstar violinist and conductor, Alexandre Da Costa, and his 1701 Stradivarius violin, at an afternoon tea in Stanbridge Hall, Daylesford in recent days.

DIANNE Longley’s considerable artist oeuvre depicts dreams and fantasies, weaving real and imagined figures and landscapes to create works that intrigue and beguile the viewer. Working at her Agave Print Studio in Trentham, Dianne uses both traditional and digital methods and here she chats about her prolific creative practice.

CHILLOUT 2023 may be over but festival director Emma Ireland is already looking at headline acts for next year.

FOR countless years the mysterious world of fungi has been the domain of a fairly exclusive handful of boffins.

TURNS out simply hanging with horses is really good for your health and happiness. It’s a basic tenet that underscores the good things happening at The Path of the Horse, just out of Trentham.

IT MUST be one of the region’s most recognisable landmarks. “PISS OFF AUSNET” was mowed in huge letters into a hill two years ago this Easter.

Smeaton is again without an operating pub after a decision by the publicans to move on amidst setbacks and following a much publicised incident that left one of the publicans injured in February.

Geelong Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged impersonation of police officers incident in Whittington last week.

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, last week launched AquaWatch Australia, a mission to deliver a world first ground-to-space water quality monitoring system for Australia and the globe.

Yarra Crime Investigation Unit detectives have released vision and images to appeal for information following a burglary at a Princes Hill home earlier this month.

Moreland Crime Investigation Unit detectives have released CCTV of a man they believe may be able to assist their investigation into three suspicious fires in Dallas on 14 January.

Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, is calling on citizen scientists to find and record egg cases washing up on Australian coasts so researchers can better understand egg-laying sharks, skates and chimaeras.

Wodonga Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for assistance from the public following an armed robbery in Rutherglen in recent days.

Police are appealing for witnesses after they charged a man following a collision on Chapel Street in Prahran in recent days.