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CommunityConnect was launched in March 2025 as a hub for community information and emergency preparedness resources. Northern Grampians Shire Council will discontinue the $315,000 platform at the end of June after saying community usage fell short of expectations.

Council axes $315,000 app after 15 months

NORTHERN Grampians Shire Council will shut down its CommunityConnect app at the end of June, about 15 months after launching the platform through the Halls Gap Community

13 June, 2026

Ashu and Rajat Goel from E2E Growth Consultants outside a recently completed home in one of the company’s Ararat developments. The pair say their proposed Stawell housing estate could deliver its first homes by the end of next year.

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Ambitious timeline for Stawell estate

Northern Grampians Shire councillor Jenny Greenberger successfully moved an amendment preventing additional electronic gaming machines from being introduced on council-owned or managed land through new long-term leases or licences.

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Greenberger pushes council role in gambling debate

Baggies coach Jayde Ellis (pictured) faces her former club when the CKS Swifts play Pimpinio tomorrow. PHOTO BY TRISH RALPH.

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Baggies to resume with confidence

Macka Padley (pictured) has been one of the Baggies most improved players in 2026. PHOTO BY TRISH RALPH

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Baggies look to build on breakthrough win

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Stawell Gift Event Management chair Murray Emerson says unprecedented international interest following the 2026 carnival has created new opportunities to attract some of the world’s best sprinters to Central Park.

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The gift that keeps on giving

Anna Sullivan, Laura O’Carroll and Rachel Williams, who jokingly described themselves as the “naughty nurses”, enjoyed an afternoon out at the Baking for Brain Cancer fundraiser at the Town Hall Hotel Lounge Bar.

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Music and coffee for a good cause

Annie Monaghan says volunteering introduced her to lifelong friends and helped transform Stawell from a place she once considered leaving into a town she cannot imagine living without.

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The long way home: Fifty years of friendship, service and community

Joyce Dowsett has been posthumously recognised in today's King's Birthday Honours List.

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Joyce Dowsett OAM recognised posthumously in King’s Honours

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Ararat, Pomonal and Stawell Men's shed gather to celebrate the Pumpkin Competition victors.

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Pumpkin Rivalry at Men’s Shed

Alfred Street residents Wayne Smith and Bob Dalgleish near the Darlington Street roundabout, where they are seeking a review of the 60km/h speed limit on the adjoining section of Alfred Street.

Stawell News

Alfred Street residents seek lower speed limit

Stawell Primary School 502 has entered the first formal planning stage of a $12.397 million upgrade and modernisation project announced in the Victorian Government’s 2026–27 State Budget.

Stawell News

Planning begins for $12.4m school upgrade

Cr Jack Blake, Council CEO Brent McAlister, Cr Jenny Greenberger, Dave Long and Trish Long prepare to raise the Aboriginal flag last week.

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Flags raised for National Sorry Day

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