Tim Bottams

YOUNG orators took centre stage this week at St Patrick's College Ballarat's performing arts centre as part of the national final of the Legacy Junior Public Speaking Competition.

MALE students from high schools throughout the region saw out their final round of activities last week as part of the inaugural Boys in STEM program.

WITH the Christmas season fast approaching, everyone is being encouraged to get into the spirit of giving as part of the Bacchus Marsh Reverse Advent Calendar initiative.

After decades of dealing with depression, a creative is looking to offer support to those experiencing similar struggles.

A PROMINENT local publisher is coinciding half a century of work with a book on Bendigo as it existed under its original name.

Trentham Sustainability Group secures $15,000 Community Climate Resilience Grant from ANZ to develop an energy resilience hub for local households and businesses.

A local creative is looking to put that knowledge to use with an ongoing community zine project aimed at putting pointers on the page.

Regular walkers through Bridge Mall's Time Lane may have noticed several eye-catching fixtures of the alleyway have been missing throughout the year.

The shifting character behind a backroad stretch in Soldiers Hill is forming the focus behind a photo exhibition housed within the Old Butchers Shop Gallery's rear shed.

MEMBERS of the Woady Yaloak Historical Society are inviting everyone to take a journey through the shire's north with a bus tour next month.