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.
January 24, 2022
Gravel grinding for a good cause
THE Ballarat Cycle Classic will have the city on two wheels throughout the weekend of Saturday, 19 and Sunday, 20 February. Offering road races, mountain...
January 23, 2022
Celebrating all things Australian
AUSTRALIANA will inspire a free program of events by Lake Wendouree this Australia Day. The Golden City Paddle Steamer Museum Society are facilitating the activities...
January 22, 2022
Nature reserve champion recognised
ENVIRONMENTAL volunteer, advocate, and former microbiologist and science teacher Stuart McCallum has been recognised as a Golden Plains Shire Senior Citizen of the Year...
January 22, 2022
Beauty and darkness from digital creative
AS long as a person has a smartphone in their pocket, they’re carrying around what can be a compact digital art studio, full of...
January 22, 2022
Getting a feel for rally racing
THE Ballarat Light Car Club is inviting the community to their annual come-and-try morning on their smooth, graded autocross track in Mitchell Park next...
January 21, 2022
Uniting community and the arts
SMYTHES Creek ceramicist Barry Wemyss has been nominated for the Golden Plains Shire’s Citizen of the Year Award for 2021. Mr Wemyss is the man...
January 20, 2022
Closing the card on an era of generosity
AFTER thirty-seven Christmases in operation, the Ballarat Combined Charities Card Shop closed for the last time in December. Denise Boyko has been involved for 17...
January 20, 2022
Safer, more inclusive holiday fun
TAKING into account the developing COVID-19 situation, the Golden Plains Shire has altered the schedule for the rest of this month’s social school holiday...
January 20, 2022
RoadNats vibe loved by locals, visitors
ALTHOUGH spectator attendance was down on previous years, last weekend’s Federation University Road National Championships attracted lots of its long-time regulars. A resident of Buninyong...
January 20, 2022
WNBL festival in full flight
SELKIRK Stadium is seeing some explosive and entertaining elite sport this month as a host venue for the current WNBL festival of basketball. So far,...
January 20, 2022
Time to climb in Enfield
ENFIELD has a new playground, recently installed in Harrison Reserve to replace the old equipment. It was built and installed last last year, with climbing...
January 20, 2022
Art banners bringing colour to the street
SIX double-sided banners will soon be hung from tall poles in Smythesdale, illustrated and designed by local people. GP Arts Inc president Barry Wemyss has...
January 20, 2022
Baiting Maude’s rascally rabbits
A TRADITION for decades, the Maude rabbit-baiting campaign is back again this summer, coordinated by the local Landcare group. Volunteers are currently inviting landowners with...
January 19, 2022
Stadium serves sporting open day
JUMP-smash into Ken Kay Stadium this weekend as the Ballarat Badminton Association serves a community come-and-try day. On Saturday, 22 January from 10am to 2pm,...
January 16, 2022
Charlie’s concert Wilde and raw
THE Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute will host indie-folk musician Charlie Wilde as he marks the release of his latest EP Allihies. Performing tracks from his fourth...
January 15, 2022
Berry fruitful farm celebrates 40 years
A SUMMER favourite for family members young and old, the Buninyong Blueberry Farm is turning forty in 2022. Owners Ernie and Margaret Neale have run...
January 14, 2022
Foto finish for booming Biennale
THE lens officially shut last Sunday on the biggest Ballarat International Foto Biennale ever. BIFB general manager Kate O’Hehir said despite it being the most...
January 13, 2022
Children’s vax program underway
BALLARAT Health Services’ paediatric COVID-19 vaccination program for five-to-eleven-year-olds began on Monday morning at the Mercure-based community clinic. Approximately 250 children received their first dose,...
January 13, 2022
Uniting for the welfare of horses
HORSE welfare organisation Project Hope will run two events for the local equine community with money received as part of a State Government grant...
January 13, 2022
Street Fiesta shares artistic talent
GROWING year-by-year, the free Smythesdale Arts and Music Fiesta is returning next month to bring creatives and art-lovers from the north of the Shire...
January 13, 2022
Book borrowing now fine-free
BOOK-borrowing and returning from the Golden Plains Mobile Library and the Bannockburn Library will be even more pleasant than usual in 2022 and beyond. Operator...
January 13, 2022
Races to see this RoadNats week
ELITE cyclists are currently in Ballarat and Buninyong for the Australian Road National Championships, and you can get amongst the action until Sunday, 16...
January 13, 2022
Club strikes gold as Miners return
AHEAD of the start of the Coles Express NBL1 South season in April, three major basketballers have re-signed with the Ballarat Miners. Zac Dunmore, Will...
January 12, 2022
National Boys Choir on the Goldfields
THE National Boys Choir of Australia will bring Ballarat Trades Hall alive in classical song this weekend. As part of their Gippsland to Goldfields series...
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