Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Blast from the Past, October 2023. Mmm, mango season is approaching and Maldon Primary School is making it easy for you to get your hands on a box of sweet, sticky, summer treats. Plus, it’s a fundraiser, so you know your mango money is going to a good cause — the school. All you have…
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World Oceans Day: Sustaining what sustains us World Oceans Day 8 June is a day to raise awareness of the importance of oceans and take action to protect them. Living in Maldon (144 km from the nearest ocean), it is easy to forget the role that oceans and their inhabitants play in our everyday lives.…
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Ada Gow and Colin McArthur. On Wednesday 8 July 1903 a fancy dress ball was held in the Shire Hall (now the Maldon Museum) to raise funds for the Maldon Hospital. Some months before, an organising committee had been appointed with Matron Susannah Coleman and local publican Pierce Jones as honorary secretaries. As well as…
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I don’t disagree with the point that Mount Alexander Shire Council doesn’t care about many of the outlying areas of the shire and various aspects of its heritage, not just Maldon. The chimney at ‘The Mill’ in Castlemaine is privately owned, and presumably repair works carried out on it would have been privately funded. Even…
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