Aussie yarns about country life in the Central Highlands of Victoria
The TL crew catch up to chat about whats going on in the next deition of The Local
The Local Crew chat about what to expect in the upcoming edition of The Local
The Local crew unpack what to expect in the September 27 edition of The Local
David Hall talks about the Daylesford housing crisis
Firewood a highly combustible subject
DAYLESFORD resident Rob Alexander grew up on council estates in London but moved to Australia when he was 20, gaining contract work as a computer programmer with an English company.Rob said he started his first and just published novel, Starlight Cafe, a few years back after following the “underhand tricks and trades” of the British American Tobacco Company including it being fined for marketing smoking to children in Africa.
The Local crew talk about what's coming up in the next edition of The Local
Tony Sawrey speaks with Steve Greenwood, the president of the Lee Medlyn Home of Bottles Collection in Clunes, the largest collection of bottles in the Southern Hemisphere
It's been a hard time for many people but while some people were forced to close their businesses, Dons Cooper from the Sew Good Company opened a second store in Daylesford. The business raises money for a school in Cambodia and provides work for the students' parents. Oh, there is also a Nepalese connection. Kyle Barnes caught up with Dons for a chat.
The Local crew discuss what to expect in the upcoming edition of The Local
Carol Saffer speaks with Adam Przewlokci, a leading Australian show choir director who is looking for singers to join Rainbow Community Choir, the first Macedon Ranges LGBTIQA choir.
Tony Sawrey chatting with Caroline Sarah, an artist and maker who has opened The Story Costumer in Trentham.
Fate and a broken leg brought talented Hepburn couple Jessica and Adam Davis together when they were teenagers attending the National Institute of Circus Arts. The couple has been performing together for 16 years. They chatted with Narelle Groenhout.
Donna Kelly Talks to Stuart Smithwick about the storm damage on the Spa Country rail railway track
Donna Kelly chats with Ross Redwin from Korweingboora and his nightmare walk with his teenagers through the forest last Thursday in the eye of the storm.
Trentham CFA veteran and first lieutenant David Twiggy Wheeldon talking to Tony Sawrey about last week's catastrophic storm last Thursday morning.
Journalist Tony Sawrey talking to aspiring footballer Chloe Leonard from Glenlyon.
Kyle Barnes talking all things real estate with Kim McQueen from McQueen Real Estate, Rae Corris from Biggin & Scott Daylesford, Rob Broadhurst from Broadhurst Property and Annette Leary from Belle Property, while Donna Kelly chats to Real Estate Institute of Victoria president Leah Calnan.
The Local crew discuss what's coming up in the next edition of The Local
A traditional smoking ceremony, community elders, a digeridoo performance and a captivated audience of school children, set the scene for the unveiling of an amazing indigenous mural depicting the six main seasons of Djandak. Created by local artist Natasha Carter, a Djaara, Yorta Yorta and Jaru woman, and inspired by parents who worked tirelessly to raise funds for the mural more than three years ago, the artwork at the Daylesford Primary School depicts the seasons of the Dja Dja Wurrung.
For 163 years, Newlyn Primary School has seen many changes in its time. Home to 18 kids, a goat, sheep, a rabbit, guinea pigs and chooks, the school is a community within a community, with a heartbeat that just won't stop beating.
The first steps to protect Hepburn Shire from destructive over-development started three months ago when Daylesford activist Jennie Wilmoth wrote to Planning Minister Richard Wynne and began talks with Mayor Lesley Hewitt. Hepburn Shire Council says it is looking at an “array of strategic planning work” over the next few years, including the Distinctive Areas and Landscapes Program.
Kevin Childs takes you through what to expect at the 2021 Words in Winter festival
Malmsbury bluestone, technically known as olivine basalt, has an amazing place in history, finding its way into churches, halls, hotels, shops, factories, houses, roads, bridges, reservoirs, footpaths and cemeteries around Victoria and New Zealand. Journalist Tony Sawrey talks us through its incredible journey with says Dr Sue Walter, president of the Malmsbury Historical Society, who has completed a PHD on the subject.
Catch up with The Local crew as they discuss the upcoming issue of The Local
The Clunes Town Hall and Courthouse is a striking municipal building designed by Percy Oakden. Built in 1872, the distinctive building reflected the prosperity of a gold mining town in its heyday. But this is not a story about the Clunes Town Hall as such, it is about the late Richard Ford, arguably one of the town's most well known and revered artists. Journalist Tony Sawrey tells us his story.
Hepburn Shire Council says it continues to advocate on behalf of community groups concerned about the construction of 190km of overhead transmission lines, proposed as part of the Western Victoria Transmission Network Project. Donna Kelly takes up the latest in this long running issue, with a bit of editorialising at the end.
Richard Payne is a well known artist throughout the Australia and around the world but his latest works will really get people talking as he blend his art with augmented reality. Kyle Barnes chats with Richard Payne.
Kyle Barnes talks with tang soo tao volunteer instructors Kellie Rodan and Pierre Martin who both train participants at the martial arts classes at the ARC at Daylesford College.
Carol Saffer talks with Gregory Clark, treasurer of the Macedon Ranges Rural Australians for Refugees.
Catch up with The Local crew as they discuss the issues and stories you will find in the next edition of The Local.
Former Gardening Australia host and gardener extraordinaire Stephen Ryan talking about his own garden at Mt Macedon
HEPBURN Shire residents have “a valid concern” about the time it could take for an ambulance to arrive in an emergency, Mayor Lesley Hewitt has told The Local.Her statement has been backed up by Victorian Ambulance Union secretary Danny Hill who said rural towns like those in the Central Highlands could be left without ambulance coverage for up to six hours.
Donna Kelly talks to Robyn Rodgers about what to expect in the upcoming Swiss & Italian Festa.
Anita and Richard Payne talk about a different kind of accommodation on offer at Eganstown – an Italian invention, a Skyview Bubbletent.
The Local crew talk about the upcoming issue of The Local
ALF Morrison of Yandoit was two months short of his 21st birthday when a bullet cut him down. Now, 104 years later, his nephew, 89-year-old Don Morrison, plans to wear replicas of Alf's medals at the Anzac Day service in Daylesford.The two medals shine brilliantly on Don's chest as he talks in his Yandoit home, with its glorious views of the countryside, including Mt Franklin.
Two thousand, eight hundred and thirty Australian male runners carried the 1956 Olympic Torch almost four thousand, eight hundred kilometres from Cairns to the MCG in Melbourne in November 1956. John Menadue, a 16-year-old Ballarat High School student, was part of that relay receiving the miner's lamp containing the flame at 2.39 am on Wednesday, November 21 near his family home in Eganstown. He chats with Carol Saffer about his memories.
There is something truly special about living in a smaller community. But when those hard times hit, and never as hard as we witnessed during the COVID pandemic, paving a way forward is now the challenge faced by all rural communities. When Clunes Neighbourhood House manager Lana de Kort realised the COVID crisis would impact severely on her community and the vital services provided by the centre, she and her team of volunteers and board members worked tirelessly to implement BOOM – a community action program that aims to boost the town's economic status and provide a secure environment for its residents.
DAYLESFORD Sunday Market, at Daylesford Railway Station, celebrates its 40th anniversary on Sunday, April 18 - with plenty of fun for everyone. It's also a celebration for the historic Daylesford Spa Country Railway - the reason the market started back on Sunday, April 19, 1981.
ALAN Graham, gravedigger at Daylesford Cemetery, is tall and weather tanned, with the demeanour of a solitary man who has worked with his hands for a long time.The 66-year-old will retire in May, having dug 3000 graves since taking on the job in April 1979. For the first 30 years, he single-handedly excavated the gravesites with the tools of his trade.“I had a shovel, spade, mattock and a pick,” Mr Graham said.
The TL crew talk over issues and whats coming up in the next edition of The Local.
Tony Sawrey talks with Andrew Cox, CEO of the Invasive Species Council, about deer in the Wombat State Forest. Fauna or foe?
Tony Sawrey talking about European wasps – on the wax or wane. Lots of anecdotal evidence and he also chats with Dr Jurgen Paar works at Rijk Zwaan, a commercial seed supplier situated in Musk whose work includes researching the use of beneficials to combat plant pests like lady beetles and parasitic wasps to combat aphids.
Donna Kelly chats with academic Tony Pagliaro about the recently published and translated version of Giorgio Cheda's The Emigration of Swiss Italians to the Australian Goldfields which was launched at Hepburn Springs last week as the lead-in to the Swiss Italian Festa in October.
Kyle Barnes chats with Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens head gardener John Roach about blooming begonias.
Kyle Barnes catches up with a few of the Central Highland's local real estate agents to discuss the real estate market and the next edition of House.Land.Home.
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