31 Mar 09 | Bookworms were buzzing when author Hazel Edwards led story-telling sessions.
31 Mar 09 | I DRIVE a lot. Great distances and often.
If I were to count up the proportion of time spent in a car, I'd likely be horrified.
31 Mar 09 | AN exhibition of handpainted garments and accessories made by four local artists will be on display at The Gallery in Mt Macedon until the end of April.
31 Mar 09 | STUDENTS have been offered counselling after a body was discovered at Sunbury Downs College last Monday.
31 Mar 09 |
The following infrastructure projects in the Macedon Ranges will share $947,000 in Federal Government funding.
31 Mar 09 | AN unprecedented amount of federal funding will be spent on Hume road projects over five years to keep up with the city's burgeoning population.
31 Mar 09 | MACEDON Ranges Council will continue to encourage stock grazing on appropriate roads throughout the shire to address community concerns on the reduction of roadside vegetation.
31 Mar 09 | MACEDON Ranges Council will consider offering free disposal of green waste for ratepayers in May, November and December in response to the devastating Black Saturday bushfires.
31 Mar 09 | PLATYPUSES, peregrine falcons and earless dragons are among the creatures that make Sunbury's Holden Reserve a key conservation project.
31 Mar 09 | THE last remnant of Diggers Rest's gold-mining heritage will be consigned to the scrap heap if an application to demolish the burnt-out shell of the Diggers Rest Hotel is approved by Melton Council.
31 Mar 09 | ABOUT a dozen people are on the Sunbury's Helping Hand committee that donated $1500 to the Sunbury police and community youth club.
31 Mar 09 | MACEDON Ranges has received $947,000 in Federal Government funding that will be used to fast-track 43 infrastructure projects across the shire.
31 Mar 09 | MACEDON Ranges residents and midwives united for a peaceful protest last week against changes proposed in the Federal Government's maternity services review.
31 Mar 09 | A ROUNDUP of some of the questions asked last week at a public meeting to discuss the Sunbury rail line's electrification.
31 Mar 09 | "DOING nothing is not an option." That is what Macedon MP Joanne Duncan told more than 500 residents who crammed into Sunbury's Memorial Hall to discuss electrification of the rail line last Tuesday.
31 Mar 09 | MACEDON Ranges business groups are hopeful the shire's proximity to Melbourne will help it survive the global economic crisis with minimal impact on local trade and tourism.
31 Mar 09 | MACEDON Ranges Council will consider the possibility of a temporary $20 rate rise for street tree maintenance in an attempt to find alternative ways to protect its historic elm and oak trees.
31 Mar 09 | PLANS for a motel, child-care centre and shops in Sunbury will be challenged at tribunal next month despite Hume Council having backed the application in principle.
31 Mar 09 | Two-wheeled champs Hollie and Nathan were among dozens from Sunbury Primary School who got on their bikes for Ride2School day last week.
31 Mar 09 | IT'S easy to forget that youth crime rates in Sunbury hit an all-time high in 2001. A year later, the rate dropped by about 40 per cent and, while figures for 2008 are not yet available, it has stayed at that lower level ever since.
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