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 11, 2021

Bringing the love back to Linton

LINTON’S community green spaces will soon be spruced by the Progress Association’s Gardening Group. Members including Mardi Reilly are aiming to get the town’s streetscape...

February 11, 2021

Student to present poem of remembrance

THIRTEEN-year-old Heidi Erwin will read a poem at this Sunday’s virtual seventeenth anniversary service for The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial. The young speaker was...

February 11, 2021

Men’s Shed gets a power-up

THE community of Linton and District Men’s Shed expects to open their new purpose-built facility for action by mid-April. But before the team moves into...

February 11, 2021

Para athletes power through RoadNats

BALLARAT-Sebastopol Cycling Club had a strong para-cycling presence at last weekend’s Australian Road National Championships in Buninyong. In Thursday’s time trials, Reece-Emerson Van Beek won...

February 7, 2021

Connection for city’s creative writers

ALMOST five years ago Rebecca Fletcher was an arts student looking to join a local writers’ group. Discovering Ballarat Writers, she connected with likeminded people...

February 6, 2021

One-stop tipple shop – Eat Drink West

New tastes and old world charm A SPACE that takes inspiration from merchant spice traders, old-world ships and warehouses, Roy Hammond is the new kid...

February 6, 2021

Fun and a friendly comp at Skate Park

SKATE, scoot or ride your BMX in the Shire’s free Bannockburn Skate Park clinic and competition this month. On Saturday, 20 February YMCA Action Sports...

February 6, 2021

Input on new Catchment strategy

CORANGAMITE Catchment Management Authority is facilitating an update of a key document. Known as the Regional Catchment Strategy, it aims to outline management goals and...

February 5, 2021

On top of the world in Linton

JUST west of Linton, a hill-top tower is tall enough to make anyone feel like the king or queen of Golden Plains Shire. Seven hundred...

February 5, 2021

Grant boosts online veterans’ resources

SUPPORT and advocacy services are set to be more accessible to Ballarat’s five thousand veterans than they’ve ever been before. The Ballarat Veterans Assistance Centre...

February 5, 2021

New chair for Committee

DAMIAN Ross has been announced as the Committee for Ballarat’s new chairperson. Having spent 20 years at Mars-Wrigley, he has held senior positions in operations...

February 4, 2021

City’s cycle-centric as RoadNats return

THE Federation University Road National Championships have launched, with time trials rolling through Buninyong and over the mountain yesterday. As club and all-abilities time trials...

February 4, 2021

Chamber seeks new expertise

THE Bannockburn Chamber of Commerce is seeking enterprising people from the south of the Shire to join their committee. President Bronwyn Davie said the group...

February 4, 2021

Movie Night connects families

THE free Buninyong Community Movie Night is back at De Soza Park this Saturday evening, screening Sonic the Hedgehog. An initiative of the RoadNats’ sponsors...

February 4, 2021

Oarsome racing back in a big way

BOAT trailers from across Victoria flocked to the shores of Lake Wendouree last weekend for the annual JG King Wendouree-Ballarat Regatta. Held over two days,...

February 2, 2021

Flag flies for faiths in harmony

BALLARAT Interfaith Network launched their celebrations of World Interfaith Harmony Week on Monday morning with a flag-raising ceremony at St Peter’s Anglican Church. As leaders...

January 31, 2021

Badminton back in Haddon

HADDON Badminton Club will smash into their 2021 season with a registration night next month. On Monday, 8 February from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, beginners, intermediate...

January 30, 2021

100 per cent milk – Eat Drink West

Inglenook dairy reaches major milestone BOTTLING their one-thousandth batch of milk this month, Inglenook Dairy is reflecting on their first ten years of business. Owner Rachael...

January 30, 2021

Horse to rock in remembrance

TERRY Clark has loved rocking horses since he rode one as a child. In the 90s, the woodworker crafted one for his grandchildren. More than...

January 29, 2021

Digital life for Linton’s painted poles

TREASURE hunt app, Geocaching has included two of Linton’s painted Sussex Street power poles in their map of locations to discover. The pole artworks by...

January 28, 2021

Bunjil building blocked

PLANS for a new home near Bunjil Lookout have been denied by Golden Plains Shire council. The move came at the Tuesday, 19 January meeting...

January 28, 2021

Week to celebrate harmony

THE Ballarat Interfaith Network will lead the city’s World Interfaith Harmony Week festivities from next Monday. Network chair Margaret Lenan Ellis said the United Nations...

January 28, 2021

Shire’s fresh voices settle into office

IN November, Piggoreet’s Ian Getsom was working as a bus driver and community volunteer. Two months later, he’s the deputy mayor of the Golden Plains...

January 28, 2021

Vet clinic in Shire’s north gets okay – Golden Plains Shire council meeting briefs

A VETERINARY clinic will be built on Brooke Street in Smythesdale after councilors granted a planning permit at the Tuesday, 19 January regular council...