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Months of preparation are coming together as performers rehearse for SPACi’s biggest production yet, Beauty and the Beast.

A beast of a production

TAKING on a tale almost everyone already knows has brought Stawell Performing Arts Company its biggest production yet – and perhaps its biggest challenge. SPACi will bring Beauty

16 October, 2026

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A historic VR T-class locomotive pulls into Seppelt Great Western on Friday during a Spirited Rail Tours journey through western Victoria.

Great Western News

Heritage rail stopover at Seppelt

Michael Robotham entertained more than 30 people at Stawell Library with stories from his remarkable career spanning journalism, ghostwriting and bestselling crime fiction.

Stawell News

Crime writer proves a killer draw

Una Allender at last year's Pomonal Native Flower Show. Free to Read

Pomonal News

Native Flower Show returns this weekend

Grampians Estate owners Tom and Sarah Guthrie among the barrels at their Mafeking production facility. This year marks both the centenary of Sir Arthur Streeton’s Land of the Golden Fleece and 25 years since the first vintage of the Guthries’ Streeton Reserve Shiraz.

Great Western News

100 years on canvas, 25 in the bottle

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Stawell Orchid Society members Warren Nightingale, Shannon Begg, John Welsh and Anne Gardiner pictured ahead of the society’s Summer Show last year. The group is preparing to fill the Stawell Entertainment Centre with orchids again for its 28th Spring Show this weekend. Free to Read

Stawell News

Ready, set, bloom

Kellie Russell at work in her Stawell home studio, where her pastel wildlife drawings come to life amid what she describes as “dust” and “chaos”.

Stawell News

From tentative sketches to gallery walls

Halls Gap Primary School students, back from left, Nilah Earl, Dakota Pleming and Jack Smart, with Summer Wolter and Otis Boyd, took part in the mass choir at the 2026 Victorian State Schools Spectacular at John Cain Arena.

Halls Gap News

A spectacular experience

Stawell Orchid Society’s John Welsh has spent more than 40 years growing orchids and is looking forward to sharing his passion at the society’s 28th Spring Show.

Stawell News

A passion in full bloom

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Ella Hooper will bring the sounds of Linda Ronstadt to Ararat Town Hall in September.

Ararat News

Ella Hooper brings the songs of Linda Ronstadt to Ararat

Queen of country Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family has announced.

Local News

Dolly Parton, queen of country music, dies at 80

The Pomonal Native Flower Show is a popular destination for gardeners each October. Photo by Craig Wilson.

Pomonal News

Native Flower Show returns in October

Flame Brothers Smokehouse owner Damon Henricksen, left, Grampians Events director Kate Kirkpatrick and Absolute Outdoors managing director Adrian Manikas hope the inaugural Grampians BBQ Festival will become an annual Father’s Day tradition for Halls Gap.

Halls Gap News

Brisket, blues and big ambitions

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