Recently one of the volunteers working on the library history project has been digging into the archives to find out which books subscribers were borrowing 50 years ago.
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Over 70 community members attended a vigil in Castlemaine last Friday to honour those in our community who are homeless.
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Run the Maine
Off they go. I was out for a walk on Friday 26 September near Maldon Train Station and I stumbled across the ‘Run the Maine’ fundraising marathon event. It’s the 17th edition and features the point-to-point Half Marathon (taking a steam train out to the start line), which means a challenging 10 km run through…
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Heritage crumbles under Council watch
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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