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Monash Uni Students join the Cactus Warriors

Monash Uni students helping the Cactus Warriors by digging out Wheel Cactus. Photo courtesy Lee Mead. Last weekend an enthusiastic group of Monash University students made their annual field trip to Maldon to help win our war against Wheel Cactus. The weather gods were happy, turning on the sunshine, and everybody had a fun and…

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Clubs & Groups Community Football Netball Sport

Maldon Football Netball Club

Football Seniors Maldon 6.3 (39) def by Dunolly 16.14 (110) Maldon journeyed across to Dunolly last Saturday for their round 11 game against a Dunolly side similarly placed on the ladder, with an opportunity to notch up their third win of the season. This wasn’t to eventuate as Dunolly were too strong for the Bombers,…

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Clubs & Groups Community Health & Wellness News

Maldon Walking Group

Maldon Walking Group enjoying a cuppa and a chat. New walkers welcomeIt’s well known that walking offers numerous physical and mental health benefits. Just ask the Maldon Walking Group members, who were recently surveyed on the benefits they received from their participation. The group has been walking together for over 10 years, and a recent…

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Community News

Repair Café Darning Workshop

Darning workshop in action. This is the way you darn. Learn to darn up those holes in your woollies at the next Castlemaine and surrounds Repair Cafe on Sunday 29 June at Castlemaine Community House. The Darning Workshop starts at 10.30am. Bring matching thread, or maybe do ‘visible’ darning with the stash of threads at…

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Community History & Heritage News

Blast from the Past

The Market House Laying the Market House foundation stone On Easter Monday 1859 the foundation stone of the Maldon Market House, (now the Maldon Museum), was laid. The Market House was the first major project undertaken by Maldon’s recently formed Municipal Council. Councillor John Ludolph Subritzsky had proposed that Maldon become a market town and a…

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Community News Out & About Radio

In Maldon Today

Bruce Turner, chair of Maldon Inc. Today Lozie and Stevo present IMT with a galaxy of guests: you’ll find out what’s doing at Maldon Rose over Maldon in Winter, hear the latest from MASC with Councillor Rosalie Hastwell and maybe meet Peter Christen from Panacea Estate.Last Friday, Elizabeth and Mike met with Bruce Turner (pictured),…

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Community History & Heritage News

Secrets of the Shire

Gower School Ruins. Gowar School Ruins There’s something about the mood of this place and its remoteness from anything else town-like that makes it seem ominous, as though it must commemorate an incident or tragedy. As a local raconteur might say; do you want the true story or a good story? Gowar School, in the…

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Community History & Heritage Letters to the Editor

Butts Reserve Picnic Shelter

It was very pleasing to read in the TT of 6 June that Parks Victoria had allocated money for the repair of both the Beehive Chimney and the Butts Reserve Shelter – known as The Butts Pavilion. It was, however, disappointing that the construction of the Pavilion was given by Parks as ‘around 1900’. This…

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