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THE music that for centuries has coursed through the blood of the Welsh found voice during COVID-19 through a choir that includes Kyneton’s 83-year-old Keith McCoy.

FEW places seem emptier than disused railway stations. The whistles, smoke or steam, the flurry of travel, all are gone.

A commissioned mural to depict the six seasons of the Dja Dja Wurrung.

‘You may start a poem but the resulting words may be entirely different from what you started out to write.’

SHE has just received a Queen’s Birthday honour for her services to the community of Clunes but really, Judith Fawcett isn’t one for all the fuss.

HEPBURN Shire council has opened up a range of services to the community.

HEPBURN Shire Council has been successful in attracting $1.6 million from the Working for Victoria Fund to employ an additional 33 staff.

People gradually realised the crisis was going to affect everyone, not just a few tourists coming back from overseas.

HANGING Rock Reserve remained closed over the long weekend.

HEPBURN Kindergarten has been running an intergenerational program with Lumeah Lodge for a few years.

Trentham’s St George’s Church bell has been chiming 12 times at noon every day as a signal of community solidarity and connection.

TWO very enthusiastic grade 4 Daylesford Primary School students are keen to start a Lego club

CHILLOUT Festival is among 15 regional LGBTIQA+ organisations coming together to bring Pride-Solation.

Jennie Fraine moved west of Melbourne (to Bacchus Marsh and then Ballarat) from the eastern side back in 2004 and has never regretted it.

THE hills are alive with the sight of saffron, thanks to Chrissy Rawson-Harris.

SLATY Creek Organics could once be found at the Daylesford Farmers Market, the Ballarat Lakeside Market and Creswick Market. But just not at the moment and we all know why. That would seem to be a problem if you had just harvested a big swag of garlic and were getting ready to sell it all. But Ross Jones? Well, these days he couldn’t be happier.

OK, Mum is a true Frankston girl, born and bred.

COMMUNITY satisfaction with the Hepburn Shire Council has seldom been high.

A NEW peer support group is starting up in the Macedon Ranges for trans and gender-diverse community members.

NEWSTEAD Arts Hub is presenting its first online Artist Market.

Irene Mooney was born in Scotland, and now lives in Daylesford.

JANE Lesock is semi-retired and she has well and truly earned it.

Planning for developments in the Central Highlands is a burning issue, as shown by the uproar at a town hall council meeting.

THE marks on the pig’s hind legs looked like dog bites, and it was gasping for air.