Natasha Morgan was approached last year by Murdoch Books and this year, The Productive Garden Companion, the book she had hoped to find her entire life, was created. She chatted to Kyle Barnes. Kyle: How did it all come about? Natasha: They had seen one of my posts on Instagram and out of the blue […]
Hepburn Shire Council awarded three contracts at its May meeting. The first was for kerbside recycling processing to Cleanaway for a two-year term. This followed a public tender process held in February and March 2026. The second was for the design development stage of the Daylesford Town Hall upgrade project to Lovell Chen, a Melbourne-based […]
If state and federal governments continue to ignore the needs and wants of Hepburn Shire, council and the local government sector would have no choice but to cut additional services and operations in future budgets. This is the warning from Hepburn Shire Council’s Mayor Cr Tony Clark after the draft budget was put on public […]
Max Primmer has been on the Ageing with Pride committee at Hepburn House for many years. And that evolved into running Ageing Disgracefully where residents could get together to watch a movie, or head to the Amazing Mill Markets for a coffee morning. That then evolved into Max deciding to also volunteer to chat to […]
Hepburn Shire Council’s Community Awards have recognised the valuable contribution of community members and volunteers in the shire. The awards were presented during Volunteer Week. Citizen of the Year went to Daylesford’s Frank Page, Event of the Year went to to art event Radical Fields and was accepted by Glenlyon’s Ryan Kennedy and the Hepburn […]
Colour dominates the life of the phenomenal Prue Acton. Her eyes sparkle when she talks about it. From the age of 15 she learnt life drawing for four years, yet nothing about colour, before becoming the golden girl of Australian fashion. “Colours are my alert system,” she says. “Not sound, vocal, or feel. Just colour.” […]
The first time I met Smeaton’s Joan Pickering she was encouraging a craft group at Daylesford Library to weave vintage lace, wool and fabric into future projects. Joan, now 86, was clearly in her element after being taken by a community carer to see for herself where surplus materials, sent to the group on earlier […]
Looking at the plans he found that the hot water system and the LPG services had been placed on the road side of the build. This has already been talked about with the builder because the house will be on a corner block and we really want to conceal all the services to the other side.
But, there that word is again, it then turned out the amended plans – as in we were now building with Sherridon and not our original choice of builder (too expensive) – had not been lodged with Hepburn Shire Council.
We had the stamp for the first building, and it is on pretty much the same building envelope but the council still needs to give it another stamp.
As it turned out Sherridon thought we had submitted it, because we have a good working relationship with council, while we thought Sherridon, as our builder, had done it.
