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90-year-old hall’s facelift complete
Works on Lauriston’s 90-year-old community hub have been completed. The upgrade of Lauriston Hall, backed by a $50,000 state government investment and delivered by Macedon…
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Push for greater road safety in the Macedon Ranges
Macedon Ranges police want to raise awareness around an escalation in road trauma throughout the region. Acting Sergeant Dwayne Sharam from the Macedon Ranges Highway…
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Labor pledges to help first home buyers
Macedon Ranges residents with hopes to enter the property market will receive a helping hand, under federal Labor election pledge. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese announced…
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Kyneton High School upgrade underway
Kyneton High School’s $10.9 million revamp has begun, delivering new facilities to students in the Macedon Ranges. On Friday, March 25, Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas…
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The reality of a ‘childcare desert’
Data released by the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University this month highlighted the difficulty many families face in accessing childcare across the country. Families in…
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Shaking tins and helping kids
If you’re wandering the Macedon Ranges on April 15 and hear the tinkling sound of shaking money tins, you won’t be imagining it. In Macedon,…
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Macedon schools online session teaching parents how to support their kids
An online parents information session exploring how best to support kids through their emotional and social development is open to Macedon Ranges school communities on…
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From the archives
Star Weekly looks back through the pages of its predecessors 30 years ago March 24, 1992 The Australian Counter Disaster College, in Mt Macedon Road,…
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Big funding boost for Diggers Rest sport
Footballers, netballers and cricketers in Diggers Rest will receive a welcome funding boost this year. Diggers Rest Bulla Village Cricket Club and Diggers Rest Football…
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Versatile work or family ute
The name Isuzu is just about the most visible of any vehicles on Australian roads. No messing around with subtle badging, just the letters I-S-U-Z-U…
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Shaving heads for leukaemia in Sunbury
When Kim Flower heard her boss’ son had been diagnosed with leukaemia, she was devastated not just as an employee, but as a close family…
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Have your say on government purchase of Hanging Rock east paddock
The Victorian government has updated its offer to purchase the east paddock of Hanging Rock and Macedon Ranges council are inviting residents to provide feedback…













