COVID’s regional tourism windfall
While COVID has crunched overseas and interstate travel plans for many Victorians, regional Victoria has just quietly been benefiting from
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ALL CRICKET OFF – ‘Better to lose one weekend than whole season’
“We’ve taken the approach that it’s better to lose one weekend of cricket rather than risk losing the whole season,”
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Big names, big music
Aussie legends The Black Sorrows are set to headline this year’s Macedon Ranges Music Festival in the event’s biggest lineup
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Housing’s next big challenge
Mount Alexander Shire Accommodation and Respite Group is planning to ramp up work on its second major project ‘A Home
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Anti-vaxxers target region
Anti-vaxxer leaflets landing in letterboxes across the region are spreading dangerous and deliberate falsehoods and should be binned on receipt,
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‘Tack-on Sunburyisation’
A developer’s bid to subdivide a 60-acre parcel of farmland at Kyneton South into 87 residential lots would be a
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Is Kyneton lovin’ it? Lobby group tells fast-food giant to ‘burger off!’
A Kyneton lobby group is spitting chips over plans for fast-food giant McDonalds to lay foundations at their town’s northern
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Call to “bring gym into current century”
Kyneton residents are pushing for upgrades to the town’s council-run aquatic centre gym to improve the layout and reduce wait
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Roo cull climb hits hard
Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network is urging Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas to take the state’s increased kangaroo harvesting kill quota and
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Affordable housing model makes conversation starter
Putting home ownership in reach of those who may otherwise never afford it is front and centre at this Thursday
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