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Outrage at ongoing V/Line disruptions
Bendigo line commuters are dismayed by revelations that the disruption of V/Line services is set to continue for weeks to come. Hundreds of trains were…
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Club revs up for Hanging Rock car show
Petrol heads have been given a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Macedon Ranges’ biggest annual car show, with about 20 classic vehicles parking…
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Macedon Cats get going to help Amy
Macedon Football Club is urging people to help a young woman battling the chronic late stage of a neurological condition known as Lyme disease. The…
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‘Crush all hoons’ cars’, says Hume councillor
Anyone caught doing burnouts or engaging in hoon behaviour should have their car impounded and sold for charity or crushed, a Hume councillor believes. Speaking…
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Families feel back to school pinch
Cost-of-living increases and back-to-school expenses have forced growing numbers of Sunbury and Macedon Ranges families to seek help from support agencies. Charities have reported that…
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Masters staff brace for job losses
About 100 Sunbury workers could lose their jobs after Woolworths said it may off-load all its Masters hardware stores. A Woolworths spokeswoman said there were…
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Lancefield’s Loraine Kraus named citizen of the year
From coaching tennis to running the football club canteen, weeding the neighbourhood house garden and baking slices for Anglican church fundraisers, whenever there’s been a…
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Gisborne brothers among OAM recipients
Two Gisborne brothers whose surname is almost synonymous with the town, have been recognised with Order of Australia medals (OAM). Like many siblings who grew…
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SunFest wins Hume Australia Day award
Efforts to celebrate links between Sunbury’s biggest community festival and the famous rock concerts of the 1970s have paid off, with SunFest sharing Hume’s ‘event…
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Shining a light on Woodend-Hesket
Evenings training under car lights that barely cut through winter fog will soon be over at Woodend-Hesket Football Netball Club. Power to the club’s netball…
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Spreading the StrokeSafe message
A Sunbury resident who watched her father-in-law have to re-learn basic activities after a stroke is spreading a life-saving message for the Stroke Foundation. Chris…
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Calls for rural mobile black-spot action
Residents who were cut off from the outside world during last October’s devastating bushfire near Lancefield are demanding major improvements to mobile phone coverage in…
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