The winners of the 2009 Powercor Central Goldfields Business Awards will be announced tonight.
The awards made a welcome return after a four year break in 2007, and are a biennial event.
Hosted by Central Goldfields Shire, the awards are open to all businesses based and operating in the shire.
The awards champion the contribution business makes to [...]

Avoca holds out Maldon to win by two goals

• Carisbrook suffers third straight loss at the hands of Harcourt

Avoca remains undefeated after accounting for Maldon in a hard fought clash at Maldon on Saturday in the Bendigo Bank

Heartless thieves have stolen more than $5000 worth of equipment from the Maryborough Cemetery.

The thieves broke in to a shed at the cemetery over the weekend and stole an assortment of power tools and machinery, including lawnmowers, a whipper snipper, water pump, chainsaw, drills and more, with a combined total in excess of $5000, as well as the keys to a small truck and a loader.

The future of Maryborough’s Highland Society and Golf Club is more assured with last week’s announcement to changes in gaming machine legislation.
Community clubs, such as the two local clubs, will now be given the option to purchase up to 40 poker machines before the rest of the machines are auctioned.
Both clubs feared that the future [...]

During the goldmining era, many people suffered accidents and injuries while at work, either underground or on the surface.
In those days, there was no work cover, and no assistance for the widows of men who died at their work and were left to make a living for themselves and their children.

The Maryborough Magpies went agonisingly close to their second win of the season in the Bendigo Football League at Princes Park on Saturday, going down to Kangaroo Flat in a three-point thriller.