Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Grant opportunities for community groups. Mount Alexander Shire Council reminds residents and groups that its Community Grants program is now receiving applications. The Community Grants program supports local community groups and individuals to deliver new or emerging projects that benefit people in the shire. The Council says the funding is designed to bring ideas to…
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People lined up playing games. If you read the headline and imagined monopoly, table tennis or anything Olympic, please press your restart button. Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) is coming in October and expressions of interest are now open for regional events to join the program — this is about playing games on screens, an…
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Enjoy a cuppa with an interesting speaker. Maldon Baptist Church will host a morning tea with an interesting speaker on Saturday 26 July and is inviting local women. The Women’s Get Together will feature Suan Lee Campbell, who will share her interesting life story in a presentation called Mirror of Hope — Expectations and Realities.…
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Teddy is our Doggo of the Week. TT: Thanks for smiling so well for the camera, Teddy. Teddy: They are all my own teeth, not bad for a 10-year-old Maltese-Shih Tzu. TT: That’s true. Teddy: I do have a metal pin in my leg. TT: Oh my gosh, what happened? Teddy: I got run over…
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Invitation Maldon Golden Movies has a new program of wonderful films, but it remains a surprise until Sunday 13 July when all will be revealed at a free afternoon tea and season launch. There will be also some other announcements, a spread of hot drinks and baked goods and a chance to catch up. Needless…
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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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