CONSTRUCTION of the $21.4million Sunbury Day Hospital project is on track and due to be completed by the end of the year.

SUNBURY United coach Brendan Lakic says his newly promoted side will be “fitter, faster and stronger” in 2010.

ONE year on from the devastating Black Saturday bushfires, the small communities of Baynton and Sidonia are on the road to recovery.

DID you know that Victorian governors from the 1860s to 1930s had a state government-provided “summer residence” at Mount Macedon?

THE historic Newham Mechanics Institute Hall was reopened after a $450,000 refurbishment was completed last week.

HUME’S new mayor is a grassroots all-round nice guy dedicated to the city he loves.

ONE in five Australians will be affected by mental illness at some stage in their life.

GISBORNE’S new Incident Control Centre was first used last Thursday, with CFA’s Region 14 still yet to enter the official Fire Danger Period.

THE Sunbury Anglers Club has released 300 rainbow trout into Spavin Lake as part of a Hume-wide initiative to encourage youngsters to go fishing during the school holidays.

A NEW generation of bookworms is in gestation in Gisborne.

AFTER months of planning, testing and some teething problems, community radio station 100.7 Highlands FM can finally be heard loud and clear across all towns in the Macedon Ranges.

MACEDON Ranges councillors have cleared the way for a new phone tower in New Gisborne.

AN eclectic mix of works from three Malmsbury artists will be showcased at an exhibition titled Spring Loaded: Metal, Media and Glass that opens this weekend.

BUILDING cars were among the projects undertaken by Sunbury Downs College students at their first Science Fest on Thursday.

A GISBORNE Football Club committee has given the green light to end its association with the Bendigo Football League.

STEM cell research was the hot topic for students at Braemar College during last week’s National Science Week.

AN emerging author from Monegeetta is encouraging Macedon Ranges’ residents to protect the Australian book industry.