Five of Hepburn Shire Council’s seven councillors are now stood down after private prosecutions from a Hepburn Shire resident. Cr Don Henderson was stood down in March followed this month by Mayor Cr Tony Clark, then Cr Lesley Hewitt, Deputy Mayor Cr Shirley Cornish and Cr Pat Hockey. The two remaining councillors are Cr Brian […]
Lise Heymer is an experience designer who spent more than two decades creating digital experiences before turning her focus to physical places, with a single mission – helping people gain clarity before making significant decisions about place. Based in Coomoora, she recently founded Heymer Design Studio, a place-based design practice. “One service that I’m creating […]
Sports Central and FedUni WestVic Academy of Sport have launched the Central Highlands Coaches Collective. The launch was held at Federation University’s Mount Helen Campus on July 22 with the collective bringing together 95 current and aspiring coaches and leaders from the Central Highlands region. Keynote speakers at the event included Hannah Every-Hall OLY, GM […]
No sooner has Hugh Jackman entertained us by reading a book to his sheep, than he pops up as Robin Hood. This is, however, no jolly romp for Robin, Friar Tuck and the Band of Merry Men versus the Sheriff of Nottingham Forest. In The Death of Robin Hood (Monday, July 27, 2pm), at Daylesford’s […]
A bracing wind whips around Sandra and Sue Morris as they introduce me to a few of the much-loved sheep on their family farm just outside Trentham. After giving Lewis, Hank, Clyde and Clarence a treat we head indoors; it’s good crafting weather. The industrious mother and daughter sit beside the wood fire, and a […]
A Pillar of Society One of seven children, Ernest Samuel Wall was born on July 27, 1879 to Samuel Wall and Elizabeth Ann Briggs. The Wall family had resided in Woodend for many years when Ernest purchased the Trentham Newsagency in Market Street in 1907. The Woodend Star newspaper, dated August 17, 1907 reported: “PURCHASE […]
A circle, complete A man – Like all men – Of clay; and his world The slow, slow kiln From which Now He has emerged, complete, His perfected, shining, final face The one true ideogram, The whole story Of a life Lived now, now, in this great Only-ever We all share, with all its freightage […]
Janet Dore has been appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer of Hepburn Shire Council. Ms Dore served as Chief Executive Officer of the Transport Accident Commission from 2007 to 2015. She has also held senior local government roles, including General Manager at the City of Newcastle and Interim CEO at the City of Ballarat, along with […]
