About: Edwina Williams
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- Edwina Williams is the Times News Group's Northern Victoria editor covering the Ballarat Times News Group, Golden Plains Times, Moorabool News, Bendigo Times, and McIvor Times.
August 30, 2020
Black Hill never sounded so good
RECORDED noises and voices are sharing a neighbourhood’s stories within a sensory walk. Inspired by her unique home corner of Ballarat, right at the foot...
August 30, 2020
Crime thriller’s Cloud travels local ground
A NEW fictional rural crime thriller from author, Sandi Wallace is set amongst territory familiar to local readers. Black Cloud is the sixth...
August 29, 2020
Does this found military photo belong in your family archive?
WHEN St Andrews Uniting Church closed on Sturt Street, Buninyong RSL president, Ron Fleming made a discovery during the clean-up. “I came across a...
August 29, 2020
Homebuyers saving on stamp duty
IN the 2019-2020 financial year, more than eight hundred Ballarat homebuyers had their stamp duty fees reduced or removed. Approximately, $10 million was saved under...
August 28, 2020
New face to lead East’s Neighbourhood House
SARAH Greenwood-Smith has been appointed the permanent manager of the Ballarat East Neighbourhood House. Bringing a background of paid and volunteer work for community...
August 28, 2020
Sporting plan activates across the region
THE City of Ballarat and surrounding regions will work to strengthen participation in sport and recreation through new strategic plan, Activate 2020-2030. The 10-year program...
August 28, 2020
Young musicians to create in Lockdown Lab
THE City’s Youth Services team and Sonika committee has launched an arts initiative, Lockdown Lab, to ensure Ballarat’s musical youths can continue to...
August 27, 2020
BCH has better things to do than take a punt
HOW much money would you expect a local poker machine chews up on a regular day? Between 2018 and 2019, an average of $157,646 was...
August 27, 2020
Design firm named to build future Ballarat Library
REFURBISHMENT plans for the Ballarat Library aim to see it become an architectural showpiece for the district. Sydney Studio Hollenstein has been employed by...
August 26, 2020
Lecture looks at changing lake ecosystems
FRIENDS of Lake Wendouree Natural Environment’s second annual lecture will be presented by palaeoecologist, Professor Peter Gell this afternoon via Zoom. FoLWNE’s Judith...
August 26, 2020
Veterans celebrate newborn’s arrival
ALTHOUGH 2020 has been unlike any year previous, some traditions have remained. On Tuesday, 18 August, also known as Vietnam Veterans’ Day, the...
August 26, 2020
Wild and woolly designer at home in Gordon
INSIDE Elise Cakebread’s rural studio is a woolly wonderland. As the textile designer behind seven-year-old brand, Cakebread, she crafts soft furnishings, including cushions, and sculptural...
August 24, 2020
Water security to improve for Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary
THROUGH the Golden Plains Shire Community Strengthening Grants program, Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary has received funds for a water security project. Within the program’s...
August 24, 2020
Green organisation growing more than Fifteen Trees
MANNA, snow, Yarra and swamp gums are all at home in the Ballarat area, alongside woolly and silky tea trees, the silver banksia and...
August 24, 2020
Better access at Bannockburn Bushland Reserve
THROUGH the Shire’s Community Strengthening Grants, Friends of Bannockburn Bush has received funds to grade three kilometres worth of their reserve’s four-metre wide...
August 23, 2020
Cleaner air to breathe at Buninyong Shed
A NEW air filtration system at the Buninyong Men’s Shed will ensure all members of the creative and social community organisation can breathe easily...
August 22, 2020
Fully Sick music and craft entertains young and old
MINDFUL of the region’s isolated young and elderly people, Ballarat youth councillor, Brienna Kamp has led a social project to connect and entertain them. A...
August 21, 2020
Blouse could be bound for Bendigo
A DELICATE and intricately illustrated tissue paper blouse by two Ballarat creatives has been entered into the Paul Guest Prize for Drawing. Fashion designer,...
August 21, 2020
Grants for veteran support and commemoration
COMMUNITY groups working to support, celebrate and remember war veterans will be eligible for a new round of State government grants. Those providing welfare services,...
August 21, 2020
Celebrated nature strip alive in Buninyong
DEBORAH and Ron Gilchrist are runners up in the 2020 Open Gardens Victoria Nature Strip Garden Competition. Their three-year-old front garden was judged virtually,...
August 20, 2020
Blanket mum behind Leroy Mac Designs wrapped in awards
LEROY Mac Designs’ Rebecca McErvale is a finalist in four 2020 AusMumpreneur Awards categories. Nominated for people’s choice accolades in the customer service...
August 20, 2020
Burke closes the book on an educational era
BALLARAT Books’ owner-operator, John Burke will soon retire, having launched the educational resource business forty-six years ago. First working in a Newcastle bookshop at 15,...
August 20, 2020
Being kind and brewing coffee
FUNDS may be tighter in the COVID climate, but plasterer, Martin Anderson didn’t want Ballarat residents to go without a good latte. Setting up a...
August 19, 2020
Commemorating Vietnam Veterans Day
YESTERDAY marked the nation’s Vietnam Veterans’ Day, recognising the contributions of all service people during the Vietnam War. Originally Long Tan Day, after...
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