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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.

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September 16, 2020

Eureka Centre talks history online

THE Eureka Centre’s Talking History series is providing a platform for the presentation of new research relating to Ballarat’s past. The forum showcases information discovered...

September 15, 2020

Everyday photos give The Other Ballarat love

WHEN you shut your eyes and imagine the Ballarat you know and love, what imagery comes into your mind? A month-old Instagram page is having...

September 15, 2020

Gallery collection inspires children’s home creativity

ABOUT ten thousand young people, from preschool-aged children to tertiary students visit the Art Gallery of Ballarat during a normal year. To continue piquing the...

September 14, 2020

Eureka network ‘getting on with business’

WITH twenty-six members, BNI Eureka is Ballarat’s latest business networking group, having launched seven weeks ago. President, Kay Jackson said the Business Networking International chapter...

September 14, 2020

Melbourne brand celebrates Jackson’s abstraction

DURHAM Lead’s Rach Jackson is a featured artist in popular Melbourne game brand, Journey of Something’s latest jigsaw collection. Jackson’s abstract Day Tripper painting has...

September 13, 2020

Minerva’s Books are on the move

BY the age of sixteen, Amy Tsilemanis was in love with literature. Writing to potential employers, she passionately wanted to work in a bookshop. Among many...

September 13, 2020

Annual art comp for mental health

THE 2020 Ballarat Mental Health Week Art Competition and Exhibition will be more accessible than ever before, moving online for the COVID era. Any artist...

September 12, 2020

Smaller projects rewarding for Rinaldi

A SOUTH ward councillor since 2015, Cr Jim Rinaldi hopes to sit another term with the City of Ballarat. For him, the next four years...

September 11, 2020

Spoonville gives walkers something to smile about

A CURIOUS little kingdom has appeared within Ballarat North. Every kingdom needs a royal...

September 11, 2020

Sports and rec program seeks active ambassadors

WOMEN and girls with active lifestyles who keep moving for fitness, fun or competitively could be eligible for a leadership role representing the City...

September 10, 2020

RSPCA educates on chicken care

A ONE-hour short course facilitated by RSPCA Victoria will cover how to care for chickens this weekend. The organisation’s first online course of its kind...

September 10, 2020

Women’s wellbeing the focus of national Week

THE Make Your Move campaign is encouraging the city’s women and girls to live healthy and active lifestyles, in line with this month’s Women’s...

September 9, 2020

Forum to answer aspiring candidate queries

THE Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute will present a panel discussion designed to educate aspiring City councillors this Friday night. The free forum, Everything You Want to...

September 9, 2020

Meredith’s history alive with funding assistance

MEREDITH History Interest Group has received a Shire Community Strengthening Grant from the program’s creative category. With $2662.50, MHIG president, Marg Cooper said...

September 8, 2020

Early learning centre brings a Little Wonder to Sebas

A NEW kindergarten and childcare centre in the city’s south will work to provide unique, child-centred early education. Sebastopol’s 118-place Little Wonders Early Learning Centre...

September 8, 2020

Get groovy to shake off stage three blues

A FIVE-week series of free, online dance classes is getting Shire residents of all ages off the couch, while promoting good mental health and...

September 7, 2020

Play at the heart of art-full boxes

THE latest project of artist, Emily Van Der Molen champions the creativity of people other than herself. Her 2D Boxful of Art program encourages...

September 6, 2020

Soldiers Hill Artist Collective on show through the windows

ALTHOUGH Soldiers Hill Artist Collective’s annual Art Walk was cancelled for 2020, the group have ensured residents wandering around the neighbourhood have...

September 5, 2020

Temple seeks support for tree planting

WAT Thai Bhavana, Mount Helen’s Buddhist temple and meditation centre is encouraging Ballarat to support their annual tree planting campaign this month. Although the public...

September 5, 2020

Klein’s figurative creatures born of unusual artform

DECADES worth of Deborah Lee Klein’s dimensional paper illustrations are on display virtually, and for sale, via Gallery on Sturt. The figurative, low relief...

September 4, 2020

National gong for Ballarat bakery

EMMA’S Homemade Cakes has had success at the Baking Association of Australia’s Best Pie and Pastie Competition in Sydney. Receiving gold medals in the...

September 3, 2020

Huge online raffle brings SpringFest to life

WHILE 2020’s SpringFest Market Sunday won’t run due to COVID-19, the Rotary Club of Ballarat has reimagined the event so its community partners...

September 3, 2020

Designated dog space for Buninyong

JAMES Reserve in Buninyong is set to become a very energetic place, as the home of the City of Ballarat’s next off-leash dog park. A...

September 3, 2020

Sixty-eight trees to remember sixty-eight soldiers

AN annual spring tree renewal effort by the City is beginning this week along the Avenue of Honour.