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

Posts by: Edwina Williams

March 1, 2022

Trains or buses or both?

WHILE Golden Plains Shire is currently developing a Transport Connections Study, based in part off findings from a community bus trial, questions have been...

February 28, 2022

Youth art show seeks exhibitors

YOUNG artists of Ballarat are invited to express interest in showing their work as part of National Youth Week celebrations at Barkly Square. Led by...

February 26, 2022

All fun and games at Buninyong Probus

AMONGST the picturesque setting of their local bowling greens and Botanic Gardens, the Buninyong Probus Club had their first activity day earlier in the...

February 25, 2022

Guiding visitors to discover the gardens

ROYAL Botanic Gardens Victoria’s director Professor Tim Entwisle has shared in the Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens’ ongoing fortieth birthday celebrations. During FBBG’s annual...

February 25, 2022

Store’s School Appeal supports students

OFFICEWORKS Ballarat has generated thousands of dollars for The Smith Family through online and in-store donations as part of a Back to School Appeal The...

February 25, 2022

Concerns shared over a cuppa

EVER sat down for a coffee with a pollie? Ballarat residents had the opportunity have chat with Member for Western Victoria Stuart Grimley over a...

February 25, 2022

School rowing’s biggest day is here

BALLARAT Associated Schools’ annual Head of the Lake is set for this Sunday, 27 February from 9am. Ballarat High School, Ballarat Clarendon College, St Patricks...

February 24, 2022

Eureka Mums to lose local facility

THE Sebastopol warehouse of family support charity Eureka Mums is set to close. Following a recent strategic review, Eureka, Geelong and St Kilda Mums chief...

February 24, 2022

Cycle Classic helps FECRI fight cancer

THE Ballarat Cycle Classic rolled around Lake Wendouree and the wider district last weekend. An annual major fundraiser for the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute,...

February 24, 2022

Masters rowing champs move to Ballarat

THE 2022 Australian Masters Rowing Championships will be held on Lake Wendouree in May. Due to the developing COVID-19 situation, the national comp has been...

February 24, 2022

Youth-led festival thinks green

BALLARAT Action Climate Co-op’s Green Fest will bring sustainably minded people together at Food is Free’s Green Space this Sunday, 27 February. From 11am to...

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...