Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Taradale Festival picnic and stage area. The Taradale Mineral Springs Festival will be held on…
Oil painting by Liadaan. Where else would you hold an art auction for the Red…
Leo and Michael, helping BlazeAid build fences for fire-affected properties. If you’re still keen to…
Fire inquiry seeks submissions. Residents affected by the 2026 summer fires in Victoria are invited…
Jeanette Teague as Lady William of Applefest and John Teague as King Jonathan of Applefest…
Lentil note: vote. A pie is just a vehicle, isn’t it, or a parcel for carrying a meal that happens to also be part of the meal. When it comes to vegetable-packed options for these mobile meals, there often aren’t many. Luckily we have Maldon Bakery where veggie lovers are spoilt for choice, but during…
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Spotted at the Maldon Swap Meet. Here’s a group of volunteers who are selflessly giving their time to make sure we are looked after in a medical emergency. I bumped into them while I was doing the article on the Maldon Swap Meet and I thought they really needed to be recognised separately. Something you…
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It’s a Family day out with the lot. This Sunday 6 April, is a date for the calendar. The Annual Peter Turner Show and Shine will be presented by the Guildford Grumpies Car Club at the John Powell Reserve, Midland Highway, Guildford. This year’s event will feature some magnificent attractions including the historic cars and…
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Visit Newstead Solar Farm. Renewable Newstead invites community members to visit its huge and productive solar farm on Friday 4 April 11am – 3pm. The organisation says the event is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to explore our innovative solar farm and learn about renewable energy sources. Flow Power, who owns and operates the facility,…
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Council advocates for affordable rentals. Mount Alexander Shire Council is advocating for federal funding to deliver a new 22 apartment development in Templeton Street, Castlemaine ahead of the upcoming federal election. The project will deliver affordable rental apartments on Council land at 65 Templeton Street Castlemaine. Apartments will be a mix of one and two-bedrooms,…
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Democracy, Sausage. Hook up the gas bottles and fire up the burners; the election has been called and Australia will go to the polls on Saturday 3 May to vote for the next federal government. The Tarrangower Times will continue the silly metaphor and commentate on the process without mincing words, but what is the…
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(L-R): Hugo Leschen (GDM CEO), Lisa Chesters MP, and Doug Lougoon (Chair GDM, President Bendigo Chinese Association). The Federal Government Budget, which was announced on Tuesday 25 March, included an $800,000 funding boost for the Golden Dragon Museum Redevelopment Detailed Design and Planning Stage. The redevelopment of the site into a fit-for-purpose museum of national…
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The piano that has taken the (temporary) stage outside Maldon Bakery is attracting interest and talent since it was placed there by Castlemaine Fringe artists, the Maine Piano Guerrillas. Local pianists and other dabbling hominids have come out of the woodwork to entertain (and sometimes, seemingly meditate as they play) for the benefit of bakery…
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Shopping, retail therapy, call it what you like, but in my mind there are two distinct types. The first is just to fulfill a basic need, mainly the supermarket, get in, get out, try not to get roped into buying what you don’t need and heaven forbid forgetting something that someone specifically asked you to…
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George McArthur. In February 1886 George McArthur sailed for New Zealand aboard the SS Manipouri. He had sold his interest in the family’s local bakery to his brother Alexander and set out on his second journey around the world. In the 1860s as a young man George went to sea and worked his passage around…
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