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.
April 29, 2021
Ideas to keep Three Trails on track
IF you’ve ever enjoyed a trip on the Shire’s Ballarat - Skipton, Kuruc a Ruc or Rainbow Bird trails on foot, on a bike,...
April 29, 2021
Meet you on the piste
OVER many years, petanque has been played across Ballarat at private facilities. But when Gordon Oliver and friends saw the game increase in popularity and...
April 28, 2021
Fifties fest back to Rock Ballarat
FEBRUARY’S ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown postponed Rock Ballarat, but its team is rebooting the rockabilly and rock-and-roll festival this weekend. From Friday, 30 to Sunday, 2 May...
April 28, 2021
Roll on up, give feedback
A DRAFT design for the upgrade of Bannockburn’s skatepark has been released before works begin in July. Now Golden Plains Shire is encouraging residents, especially...
April 27, 2021
Golf Club in swing for over 125 years
THE Ballarat Golf Club celebrated their belated one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary recently, having postponed the event in 2020. President Lesa Gray said the Club was established in...
April 26, 2021
Arts service award for BLOC stalwart
BALLARAT Light Opera Company life member Carmel Flynn has been awarded the Ballarat Arts Foundation’s 2021 Denis Bateman Award for her long-term service to...
April 26, 2021
Life members honoured at opening
THE Sebastopol Bowling Club’s newly renovated facilities were officially launched last Wednesday and dedicated to life members for their passionate, long-term contributions to the...
April 26, 2021
Magical dementia-friendly trail for park
PARKS Victoria have begun works to construct the country’s first-ever dementia-friendly forest and sensory trail at Woowookarung Regional Park. The one-kilometre compacted gravel trail is...
April 25, 2021
Little shop offers a lot more than books
THAT Little Bookshop is Wayne Compton’s TARDIS; it looks small on the outside, but it’s bigger once you step in. Previously a pop-up, he took...
April 23, 2021
Discover the north’s hidden arts gems
GOLDEN Plains Arts Inc members in the Shire’s north are opening their creative studios monthly to share their work and spaces with curious art-loving...
April 23, 2021
Chat with councillors over a coffee
OFFERING residents opportunities to speak to local government representatives in person, further Shire councillor conversation posts and coffee with your councillors events are approaching. Saturday,...
April 23, 2021
Walking off the mental War once more
EMERGENCY and defence force servicepeople will stand supported by the public at this weekend’s Walking off the War Within event. The 20-kilometre walk is held...
April 22, 2021
Anzac camaraderie and catch-ups return
INVERLEIGH RSL’s outgoing president Malcolm Johns has said the “beautiful” part about marking Anzac Day in 2021 is that people will be a part...
April 22, 2021
Cyclone appeal helping Timor-Leste friends
BALLARAT Ryder-Cheshire is asking the city to “step up and support our near neighbours.” Following Easter’s Cyclone Seroja, Timor-Leste has received catastrophic flooding and landslides,...
April 22, 2021
Women’s baseball a home run
THE Alfredton Women’s Baseball Club have made history recently, playing in round one of the newly formed Western Victorian Women’s Baseball League. Alfredton’s Eagles played...
April 20, 2021
Give and gain at businesswomen’s network
MARGI Cousins co-founded Ballarat Business Women in 2008 to close a gap, having seen a “room of grey suits” at each network event she...
April 19, 2021
Arch Anzac service remembers boy soldiers
THIS year’s Anzac Day commemorative service at the Arch of Victory will spotlight the youngest Australian soldiers of World War One. Arch of Victory -...
April 19, 2021
Bowls fundraiser has plenty of heart
SIX thousand dollars’ worth of new cardiac equipment at Ballarat Health Services has been funded by a donation from the Ballarat District Bowls Division. Every...
April 18, 2021
New war novel blends fact and fiction
DOCTOR Tony Whitefield has released his second novel exploring the history between the Greek island of Limnos and Anzac soldiers. This “fictionalised non-fiction” book, George’s...
April 18, 2021
Crowd-sourcing the city’s best ideas
ONLINE customer feedback platform Suggest it is hoping to strike innovative gold in Ballarat over the next four weeks, launching their Ballarat’s Best Ideas...
April 18, 2021
Settle says bus stop should stay
ALTHOUGH it may be shortened, the four hundred-block Warrenheip Street bus stop in Buninyong will likely remain after the City’s streetscape redevelopment. Member for Buninyong...
April 17, 2021
Jump on in at the pub jam
THE Railway Hotel Linton and their house band are inviting any musicians and an audience to join them on a late Sunday afternoon. On the...
April 17, 2021
A tranquil family outing in Enfield
WORKING in plant transport, Mick Stanley has seen his fair share of nurseries along Australia’s east coast. But with two-and-a-half-acres on his home block at...
April 17, 2021
Good Vibration, sweet sensation
LOCAL radio presenter, Benjamin Ato Sam has just released his second Good Vibration African Cookbook. Formerly running a vegetarian restaurant in Ghana, Sam has taken...
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