Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Official opening of the new Health and Learning Hub. State Member for Bendigo West Maree…
Chris, John, Les and Ross - Hickory golfers. “We’ve organised the weather to be beautiful…
Irish band The Sweet Sorrows will appear at the 2025 Maldon Folk Festival. 2025 is…
Maldon Playground, situated between the Shire Gardens and Bill Woodful Reserve. The recent revelation that…
Councillor Rosalie Hastwell, Bank Chair Ross Egleton and Jenny Merkus from the Tarrangower Tomorrow group…
Tina Fratta and Kerry Ryan with Len and George. Audio books for Maldon Hospital For some time, the Maldon Athenaeum Library has offered an Outreach Program for residents at the Maldon Hospital who are unable to visit the library themselves. Currently there are two gentlemen who receive visits from library volunteer Kerry Ryan. We are…
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Original Kangaroo Hotel in background c. 1857. The Garrick Club was a society of dramatic amateurs. The first Garrick Club was formed in 1831 in London for actors and men of refinement to meet on equal terms. It is one of the oldest members’ clubs in the world. Melbourne formed its own Garrick Club in…
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Graham Pitts. Today Katrine will be back with Nancy – also back – to co-present the show. Their guest will be recently published author Bernice Steinfort, once a slip of a girl in Nancy’s classroom. Last week EC and Nancy had enormous fun talking to Graham Pitts about his many and various life experiences, including…
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Golden Mountain Movie. Maldon Golden Movies is screening next Thursday 21 August; reminder that the venue for the rest of 2025 is Progress Hall on Francis Street. It’s a great time to join for 2025 if you haven’t already: since we have passed the halfway mark of the year, memberships are only $15 per person…
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Four echidnas under the house. A perfect echidna speciman. What’s better than one echidna under your house? Four echidnas!! We have been aware of an echidna under our house for the last few years, however this year it has become extra noisy. This afternoon out popped four, three males chasing the female. It was hilarious,…
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Cactus Warriors info stall at the Maldon & Baringhup Agricultural Show. When you think of environmental volunteers, do you automatically picture an older, retired person with plenty of free time? It’s true that volunteers are often older, but in fact, there’s an amazing diversity of people who get involved. Volunteers give their time, knowledge and/or…
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Brooks Grain Store. Tucked away from Maldon’s main drag is the old grain store facing Templeton Street, built in 1866 and run by the Maldon Co-operative Store Trading Company until its sale to John Brooks in 1872. It’s a striking building, perched high on the corner of Edwards St, retaining a multitude of historic details,…
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Bonfire at Panacea Estate — clearing the old and welcoming the new. Bonfire traditions and vineyard gatherings As we have been cleaning up some fallen timber, weeds and vines, we have been building some great bonfires that have set in motion this week’s article and while it is still nice and cold, we will start…
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Pictured from left: Robert Blanch, Ron Johnson, James Grant, Graham Lees. Check out the refurbished face of Newstead Men’s Shed! This used to be the Newstead Fire Station and it’s owned by the council. It was getting a bit shabby and had some issues with asbestos and so it’s been re-clad, painted and generally spruced…
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Lazarus, former ranger on the island of Palau surrounded by transboundary plastic pollution. Photo: April Howard, who is making a film about plastics in the Pacific. A three year process of international negotiations towards ending plastic pollution is wrapping up this week. It started in March 2022 when a historic resolution was adopted by the…
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