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About: Edwina Williams

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Edwina is a journalist at the Ballarat Times News Group, and Golden Plains Times, based in Ballarat. She is a passionate art lover and photographer, who enjoys capturing the colour and life of the city in her own time. Edwina has worked as a social media management contractor, and has had previous news experience with the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, Victoria Votes for Channel 31, and Junction Journalism. Contact her at [email protected] Twitter - @edwinawilltweet Facebook - @edwinawilliamsjourno

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February 24, 2022

Olympian named city’s top athlete

TOKYO Olympic javelin-thrower Kathryn Mitchell has been named Ballarat’s Sportsperson of the Year. A member of Eureka Athletic Club, Mitchell was awarded by the Ballarat...

February 24, 2022

In the same boat to break the bias

THE rowing community will mark International Women’s Day with a celebration by Lake Wendouree’s course finish line, opposite Loreto College. From 4pm to 6pm on...

February 24, 2022

Get set, go to try netball and footy

WOADY Yaloak Football Netball Club’s annual come-and-try day is again set to offer children the opportunity to have a go at footy and netball,...

February 23, 2022

Society plants a legacy at new showgrounds

IN remembrance of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and commemoration of her platinum jubilee earlier this year the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society has...

February 22, 2022

Bus data influencing transport study

THE Shire has released Golden Plains Community Bus usage data, following its six-month trial in 2021 throughout the north and south of the municipality. Fifty-one...

February 22, 2022

Fest’s best warming up outta town

AHEAD of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s launch in late-March, some of Australia’s best comics, and Ballarat’s newest, will perform locally. As part of the...

February 21, 2022

Top touch juniors to town for State Cup

MORE than two hundred athletes will compete at Russell Square later in the month during the Touch Football Victoria Junior State Cup. The affiliate comp...

February 20, 2022

Agency celebrates long-serving administrator

HELEN Rae walked through Booth & Lee’s Lydiard Street doors in 1990 as a work experience student with Loreto Commercial College. In January of the...

February 20, 2022

New book covers the big Bartlett story

MARKING more than sixty-five years of leading work in industrial textile fabrication, Ballarat’s Bartlett Manufacturing has published a coffee table book which shares the...

February 20, 2022

Sovereign celebration of iconic sweet treat

A TRIP to Sovereign Hill this Tuesday, 22 February will be nothing but sweet. It’s National Raspberry Drop Day, and the outdoor museum is set...

February 19, 2022

Waste-powered start-up hits ground running

SUSTAINABLE start-up GroundUp Coffee Recyclers is marking six months of operation. Director Eliza Whitburn-Weber founded the initiative which collects bins of coffee grounds and kitchen...

February 19, 2022

Calming Remi boosting College wellbeing

A FRIENDLY, gentle, and cuddly employee has joined Damascus College’s team of staff this term. The school now has its own wellbeing dog in seven-month-old...

February 18, 2022

Exploring LCH to better patient outcomes

RECENT Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute investigations have looked at the immune systems of people with Langerhans cell histiocytosis to better understand the disease...

February 17, 2022

Remembering the national apology

SUNDAY marked fourteen years since former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally said sorry to the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. His...

February 17, 2022

Another Mars landing for stadium

MARS Wrigley has committed to being naming rights sponsor of Eureka Stadium, better known as Mars Stadium, for another two years. The confectioner’s general manager...

February 17, 2022

Liberals pledge mental health support

STATE election campaigning arrived in Ballarat on Tuesday, with opposition leader Matthew Guy visiting Federation University’s Camp Street campus. Accompanied by the shadow minister for...

February 17, 2022

City rower strokes to indoor champs

WHILE pools were closed throughout 2020, Ebony Ebenwaldner got used to open water swimming in Lake Wendouree. Once boat clubs got back on the water,...

February 17, 2022

High’s best boys back in the boat

BALLARAT High School’s boys first crew of 2002 made a splash when they won the Australian National Rowing Championships. Chris Nielson, Nic Moran, Heath Baker,...

February 16, 2022

Making the junior footy transition easy

AFL Goldfields is assisting young families to make the move from Auskick into under-nine junior football. Their Footy for Fun program will run at the...

February 15, 2022

Bowling over a club milestone

LINTON Cricket Club’s first eleven is celebrating bowler John Stuart after he took his three-hundredth wicket last month. Stuart is the third cricketer in the...

February 14, 2022

Creative crew seeks young leaders

ENTHUSIASTIC, dedicated young people with initiative, creativity and a service mindset are encouraged to apply to be 2022 Sonika volunteers. Funded by State Government program...

February 13, 2022

Celebrating Nancy McCallum – 15 November 1920 to 7 January 2022

NANCY “Nan” Dunstan was born in Barkly Street, Golden Point in 1920. This was a time when one heard the work sirens of Sunnyside Mill,...

February 12, 2022

Art gallery curation gets Smart

THE Art Gallery of Ballarat is filled with many familiar faces, most of these painted and hanging on the wall. But one face plenty of...

February 12, 2022

Geelong tram reborn in a new city

THE Ballarat Tramway Museum’s newest acquisition Geelong tram 2 took its first local passengers last weekend at the Botanical Gardens. It was officially re-launched by...