Day: 30 May 2025

Biggest Morning Tea
Community Fundraising News

Biggest Morning Tea

Platform Souls provided lively entertainment as crowds gathered at Plaistow’s Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser. On Saturday 24 May Lilian and Peter Skilbeck, along with considerable assistance from their excellent team, hosted their annual Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser. Locals experienced the unique charm of Lilian and Peter’s heritage-listed homestead, Plaistow. This event showcased their hospitality and…

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Misty morning
News Out & About Travel

Misty morning

Photo courtesy of Barry Robinson. This view will be familiar to commuters. The sun rising on a misty morning on the Maldon-Castlemaine Road. Snapped something awesome? We’d love to see it! Send your pics to ed****@******************om.au.

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Secrets of the Shire
Out & About Shooting Sport Travel

Secrets of the Shire

A picnic spot amongst the picturesque boulders at Butts Reserve. Butts Reserve The historic picnic and camping notable spot Butts Reserve — at the bottom of Mount Tarrengower— is perfect for a walk amongst ancient boulders and gullies, casting your imagination towards the natural world and the people who have walked here before. Butts is…

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Cork Talk
Food & Wine News Out & About

Cork Talk

Peter takes his time pruning – it’s a conversation. The art of pruning – shaping the future with every cut In the heart of winter, when the cellar is still and the vines look lifeless against grey skies, there’s one job that signals the quiet beginning of the new season: pruning. It doesn’t make headlines.…

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The Old Oldsmobile
Community History & Heritage News

The Old Oldsmobile

The elegant lines of the Oldsmobile Tourer, a luxurious ride in its day — and still eye-catching today. Hidden in sheds, under tarps and out of sight in Maldon, are some amazing things. This is a 1925 Oldsmobile Tourer, which obviously means it’s now 100 years old. Here’s a fun fact: it was Oldsmobile that…

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Vignettes bring library to life
Community History & Heritage News

Vignettes bring library to life

Winsome Strickland, Joy Leneaux-Gale, Helen Gramberg as Mrs Beale, Maree Edwards MP, Eirwen Stevenson, Robyn Annear, Tina Fratta and Brenda Shingles at the launch. It was an upbeat afternoon at the Maldon Athenaeum Library on Saturday 24 May, when the library launched its new online feature. The Library History Vignettes are a series of vignettes…

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Maldon’s early Bakers
Community History & Heritage News

Maldon’s early Bakers

Wells’ baker’s cart. The Maldon Bakery has a good claim to being Australia’s oldest continuous operating bakery. In 1854, soon after the discovery of gold, George McArthur began baking bread locally and about 1857 built the small brick building that is part of the current building. The McArthur family operated the bakery for more than…

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