Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
IMT Bosun Stevo. There has been a flood of complaints since the good ship IMT failed to launch last Friday. Our shipmates in listener-land were awash with tears and lamentations when Katrine and Nancy were all at sea and unable to interview Viv Markham. This week’s shipping news has scheduled Ann and EC – but…
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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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There was a low rumbling in Maldon on Saturday; a distinctive guttural grumbling that could only belong to a Kombi. In fact Maldon was the lunch pit-stop for multiple Kombi Vans, visiting as part of a jovial weekend away for a bunch of friends who share a love of the curvaceous campers. “We’re camping in…
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Christine Fitzgerald receiving the AED from Rhythm First Aid representative, Nicole Gleeson. Maldon General Cemetery recently received an automated external defibrillator (AED) supplied by local first aid team, Rhythm First Aid which has also provided practical training on the device and general first aid for cemetery staff. Chair of the Maldon Cemetery Trust, Christine Fitzgerald,…
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Deb Pach, Alistar Robertson, Barry Murfett, Kaz Neilson and Frankie Nugent developed the video. A new video demonstrating energy efficiency and techniques to make homes more comfortable and cost effective has been created by My Home Network (MHN) Tenants Rights Working Group and the West End Resilience (WER) Energy Group; it was launched by Dhelkaya…
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The Castlemaine Hub. Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative announced on Thursday 26 June that it had realised its goal to raise the funds to purchase The Hub, three days before the investment deadline. The Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative is a group of residents working together to purchase and manage local properties and keep them community-owned. The…
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The Beehive Chimney is a hop and a step from Maldon’s Main Street. News of proposed repair works for Maldon’s Beehive Chimney has local folk chattering, so Parks Victoria met with representatives of local groups at the site last Thursday 26 June to answer lingering and pressing queries. With the help of Parks Victoria Statewide…
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More evidence that the Castlemaine-centric Mount Alexander Shire Council doesn’t care about Maldon. I first noticed brick erosion on the Beehive Chimney back before COVID, and emailed MASC to notify them that maintenance was required. This was just after they’d spent over $1 million restoring a similar big brick chimney in The Mill precinct. Of…
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Home to the Maldon District Museum and History Research Centre. Maldon District Museum This striking red brick building was constructed in 1859 as a market building for Maldon, but it wasn’t a success and the market closed down a few years later. Now it is home to the Maldon District Museum and History Research Centre,…
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Grace and Jade from Maldon Rose and the Dessert Society *IMT stalwart host Nancy Whittacker alerted the TT to a deluge in the building from which MainFM and IMT is broadcast — the flood was caused by a burst water main on Friday 27 June but we’re not pointing fingers. The flood caused temporary radio…
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