A VFL premiership player
By Meg Kennedy
Bacchus Marsh may still be celebrating local AFL Eagles player Liam Duggan’s premiership win, but another iconic footy player and former resident...
Top of his game
By Declan Allen
Bacchus Marsh Soccer
Whilst Usain Bolt is playing soccer in New South Wales and attracting a fair bit of attention from international clubs,...
Sports bonanza
By Helen Tatchell
With only one week left of his political career, Geoff Howard has made a significant ‘last hurrah’ announcement for Moorabool, as he...
Local flora a spectacular sight
By Meg Kennedy
What unique Australian plant looks straight from the set of Jurassic Park, and was once used to create everything from spears, to...
Are you ready to react, plan and survive?
Do you know what to do in the case of a fire? Want to put your skills to practice?
The CFA has been trialling new...
Amen to church
By Carol Saffer
The white weatherboard All Saints Anglican Church standing on a hill in Blackwood since 1865 has been sold and deconsecrated.
The church set...
Adopt a kitten is in season
By Carol Saffer
Spring, the season of re-birth awakening after Winter, used to be the clearly defined time of the year known as kitten season.
While...
Let there be light
By Meg Kennedy
The current oval light poles at Ballan Recreation Reserve came from Pentridge Prison, so a grant for new lighting announced by the...
…in with the new
By Helen Tatchell
It is official, a new Moorabool Shire Council CEO has signed his contract for the next five years, witnessed by Mayor Paul...
MISSING – Where is Albie?
By Helen Tatchell
Albert ‘Albie’ Smith was due to go home the morning he walked out of the Ballan Aged Care facility and is still...
