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Sandy driving in to take away photography

25-05-2020

THE Driveway Project - Life in Lockdown, by Trentham photographer Sandy Scheltema.

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Local Lines : Cracker night at Crouch’s

25-03-2020

Bill Wootton lives in Hepburn Springs and has not lit a fuse for 50 years.

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Vale Bill Hickey 1940 – 2020

18-05-2020

MANY people could write the story of William Thomas Hickey...

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Creating beautiful floral displays for all

18-05-2020

DENISE Robinson’s work is truly beautiful and even more than that, she is a beautiful person.

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Confessions from the great Glenlyon Confest

18-05-2020

THE Hare Krishnas were making meals. Just about everyone else was making love.

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Music to express emotions and experiences

18-05-2020

D'ARCY Spiller is from a family of seven which moved around when she was young.

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Red Cross connecting

18-05-2020

RED Cross is offering a free national telephone service to help people maintain or improve their level of social connection.

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Hepburn Primary School: care and support

18-05-2020

HEPBURN Primary School is the combination of a supportive community, talented and caring teaching staff

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Funding to stop violence

18-05-2020

WRISC Family Violence Support, which provides services for women and children experiencing family violence in the Hepburn Shire region

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Father Neil streaming the words of a service

18-05-2020

FATHER Neil Fitzgerald could be living in Wales right now.

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Venie poetry prize

18-05-2020

THE 2020 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, in partnership with Rabbit: a journal for non-fiction poetry, has been launched.

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Pandemic Poetry

18-05-2020

GORDON Nightingale has used the downtime of COVID-19 to assemble his poetry into a book, Poems for the Pandemic.

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Local Lines : Catholics need not apply

18-05-2020

Tom Perfect had a seriously privileged upbringing within a household of love and love for learning, for the arts, sport, and surviving, where people were always visiting.

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Life changed with simple diet and exercise

11-05-2020

DAYLESFORD’S "Big" Dale Callahan is big no more. The 56-year-old has lost a massive 102kg in just 40 weeks.

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From sport to army to hospitality: a great story

11-05-2020

FROM international squash tournaments to the Israeli Army, to The Boathouse Restaurant, Claire Levine has a hell of a story.

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Testing under way

11-05-2020

CORONAVIRUS testing is ramping up across the Macedon Ranges and Hepburn shires, with testing now available at Kyneton District Health.

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Nursery brings early cheer to Daylesford

11-05-2020

Come Spring Daylesford will be flush with beautiful swathes of jonquils, thanks to nurseryman Jeff Thornycroft.

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New premises for Cobaw Community Health

11-05-2020

A YEAR since works first started, Cobaw Community Health’s building is now completed.

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Creswick Trails on track despite COVID-19

11-05-2020

A COMMUNITY Engagement Report for Creswick Trails, 100km of purpose-built mountain bike trail.

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Online art exhibition with Trentham Iso Art

11-05-2020

The global pandemic might have stopped one of Victoria’s biggest regional art events.

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Finalist in photo prize

11-05-2020

TRENTHAM photographer Mike Rutherford's Lost Boy - Kerala.

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Festa artwork winner

11-05-2020

MELBOURNE creative Lliam Amor is the winner of the Hepburn Swiss Italian Festa Artwork Prize for 2020.

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Local Lines : The Loddon’s up

James Baillie lives in Glenlyon and runs a business called 'The Arthritis Man'. He has been writing rhythm and rhyme as a hobby since age 11.

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Storytelling online throughout COVID-19

04-05-2020

THERE are many ways to tell a story – and Anne E Stewart knows all of them.

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