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Flood-impacted residents in Hepburn Shire will be able to dispose of flood waste free of charge until the end of December.

THE Daylesford Art Show is ready to kick off this Thursday, October 27, with the Community Bank Daylesford District Awards Night at the Daylesford Town Hall.

Hepburn Matters has launched a petition calling upon Hepburn Shire Councillors to favourably consider bids to purchase The Rex that include provision for community use and heritage protections.

A busy couple of weeks happening overhead with eclipse season upon us, as well as Mars turning retrograde, both might cause some upheavals.

FOLLOWING their successful tour of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in May/ June, Lyster Opera returns to the stage with Rossini’s hilarious take on the Cinderella story, La Cenerentola.

Connect with regional ceramicists in their studios on the Central Victorian Clay Trail, held on Sunday, November 13 and Monday, November 14 from 10am to 4pm.

COMING from a long line of bakers, it’s no surprise that Rebecca Barnett grabbed at the chance to run her own bakehouse in Maldon, and become the proud new owner of the longest running bakery in Australia: the Maldon Bakery.

EQUINE specialist Dr Emma Nicol knew from a very young age that she wanted to devote her life to caring for horses.

IT WAS probably a bit of a “pinch me” moment. Liz Liddle had been running a soap making/bath products business for about five years when she saw a callout for Uncovered at the Sydney Opera House.

COMMUNITY Bank Daylesford District has conditionally committed $750,000 over 10 years to the Daylesford Hospital upgrade.

Christ Church Daylesford is holding a Trash & Treasure at Stanbridge Hall as the first initiative for the hall's renovation fund campaign.

KORWEINGUBOORA local Abigail (Abbey) Wehrung loves where she lives on the fringes of the Wombat Forest.

One of the most exciting successes in gardening is creating a new plant from a small growth taken from a favourite tree or shrub.

DUO, Hayden Walsh and Karen O’Sullivan, who recently launched their book If I can, you can, are teaming up once again for a special project and asking the community to participate in the Mount Macedon Realty: Wooling Hill Run 2022 this month to raise funds for Kyneton Health’s Palliative Care in the Home program.

SO, the Big Rainbow is coming to Daylesford. I kinda thought we would win. I mean the other towns were a little bit, well, not really on my gaydar. But then, maybe they are LGBTIQA+. I have been to Katherine in the Northern Territory and I can't say it glittered.

LIKE all hospitality businesses, it has been a bit of a rocky road for the crew at the Guildford Family Hotel, aka The Guilly.

I SPENT a couple of years in the Hepburn Shire Council, starting as a volunteer at the Visitor Information Centre, and with that my stellar career in the Tourism Department had begun. It was just one of those times in life that you find everything simply works out.

Talented musical collaborators, the Saltbush Ensemble, are next up in the Daylesford Christ Church’s popular concert series, with a mid-afternoon performance this Saturday, October 15.

HEPBURN Shire Council has shortlisted four sites for the Big Rainbow. They are Lake Daylesford, Victoria Park, the Community Skate Park and the Lost Children's Reserve.

THE value of forking out a cool $100,000 or so to upgrade the Daylesford CFA rescue truck was well demonstrated in recent days. When the truck was called in to help free a man trapped in a crushed utility following a head-on collision near Glenlyon, the new addition of battery power to run its critical lifesaving equipment proved a massive help, members of the volunteer brigade say.

Two of Musk’s most beautiful gardens will open to visitors as part of Daylesford Spa Country Railway’s special fundraising run day next month.