24 Oct 06 | DESPITE a few windy starts, the rowing season has begun for three Ballarat secondary schools at the Newlyn Reservoir.
24 Oct 06 | CHEF Gary Thomas is one of eight Australian chefs representing his country at the biennial meeting of the Slow Food Communities in Italy.
24 Oct 06 | THE Hepburn Spa resort closed on Sunday for the start of the anticipated $10 million redevelopment.
24 Oct 06 | PORTIA Mereki and Zafiro Zadkiel have achieved the unbelievable - winning the Victorian Showing Championship across all five levels in the Horse Riding Club Association of Victoria 2005/06 - and it hasn't come easily.
24 Oct 06 | A TANK manufacturer has had to stop taking orders because it cannot keep up with the demand.
17 Oct 06 | THINK PINK: Bourke Square, Daylesford, will become a mini field of women from 11am on Sunday when 100 pink silhouettes representing women diagnosed with cancer will be planted.
17 Oct 06 | DAYLESFORD Football Club's new coach hopes to make the most of the town's young talent.
Phil Davis from Porcupine Ridge was appointed non-playing coach last week after former playing coach and captain Luke Adams stepped down from the role due to family commitments.
17 Oct 06 | HOLISTIC health is the theme of a Girls' Night In, which is being held to support women with cancer.
17 Oct 06 | IN WHAT amounts to perfect timing as the Hepurn Bathhouse is about to close, a $100,000 funding package has been announced to bolster the region's tourism industry.
17 Oct 06 | THE region may lose up to 15 businesses if something is not done about bringing ADSL broadband to the community, according to a group of traders.
11 Oct 06 | THE Clunes Field and Game monthly shoot at the weekend saw 65 shooters compete in a 75-target handicap event.
11 Oct 06 | CRICKET Willow helped get the Victorian Athletics League's professional running season underway, hosting a launch party on Sunday at its stunning Shepherds Flat fields.
11 Oct 06 | THE John Curtin Memorial Hostel is gearing up for another successful Gopher Grand Prix at the Creswick Forestry Fiesta.
11 Oct 06 | DAYLESFORD Hospital is admitting more patients than this time last year, treating 824 patients compared with 727 for the same six-month period last year.
11 Oct 06 | THE sacred aboriginal ceremonial fire will return to Hepburn Springs, according to aboriginal Dale McDonald.
11 Oct 06 | IN A matter of weeks Ballarat builder Nicholson Construction will turn the first sod at the $10 million Hepburn Spa resort.
04 Oct 06 | DAYLESFORD'S Katelyn Bugden and Shane Morrison were too good for their competitors at the National Taekwondo Championships held in Adelaide last month.
04 Oct 06 | FARMERS in the Hepburn Shire region have been forced to cut back their potato crops to a minimum after the winter month's rainfall failed to fill dams and replenish bores.
04 Oct 06 | FOR the first time in 10 years the Daylesford Brass Band will compete at the Royal South Street Society Competitions this year.
04 Oct 06 | THIRTEEN women in the Hepburn Shire are diagnosed with cancer each year.