2022 April May issue
New team for the Blackwood TImes 3 decades ago Blackwoodian Robina Brown & I, a newbie in town, chatted on the roadside with our youngsters in tow. Robina voiced concerns that it was difficult to find out what was happening in town & I wanted to find...
2022 February March issue
Did I hear things were going to improve in 2022? Here we are with another COVID issue. The past 2 years have been really hard on our tiny team of 3. With no events & no real happenings we have still managed to scrape together fun issues. When we started to put...
2021 Christmas Issue
Wishing all our readers a fant-abulous silly season Hello Blackwoodians, We are well & truly into the silly season as this issue comes out. Yes, it is very, very late but the team made an executive decision to publish late for the first time in its 14 year...
October November 2021 issue
My oh my, what a wacky year & a half we’ve had! Bushfires, COVID, lockdowns, cool climate cyclone & finally an earthquake! All-in-all it could be the making of a really bad movie! The great news is that, after a really horrid winter, spring has sprung....
Aug Sept 2021 issue is out
Here we are again Blackwood, Oh my, what a couple of months we’ve had! Early June saw our wee village in the midst of what has been called a Cool Climate Cyclone. We woke up to trees down in driveways & across roads, blocking our passage in & out of town &...
June July 2021
Here we are again Blackwood, Happy 15th Birthday to us. Who knew back in 2008, when we took the Blackwood Newsletter over from Robina Brown, that we would still be slogging it out 15 years on. We are gearing up to hand the publication over to the community by getting...
April May 2021 issue out now
Hello again Blackwood, Did you know that The Blackwood TImes is produced by a handful of local volunteers? We are not photographers, journos or writers though. Our contribution is to compile your submissions bi-monthly into a paper for you & your visitors to...
February March 2021
Welcome, welcome to 2021! What a pleasure it’s been to put this issue together with so many photos of Blackwood rising from lockdown & getting back to what it is good at - looking after our community & having fun! 2020 was a difficult time for the Times as we...
December ’20 January ’21 issue
Hello Blackwood & visitors to our wee village What an amazingly unexpected year it has been! Who else is looking forward to 2021, mind you have you seen the meme going around? If you thought 2020 was bad, Mad Max is set in 2021! With restrictions easing & a...
October November 2020 issue
COUNCIL ELECTIONS - on again They’re on again. The council elections! Have you considered how you will vote? The Woodlands Ward councillor is your voice to the Moorabool Shire. Make your vote count. Council elections will be held across Victoria during October and...
August September 2020
Featuring: locals fight mining in Blackwood - cover & p3 new caravan park managers p4 the Times says thank-you p5 Blackwoodian adventures p6-8 Meet Peter p9 Community Updates p10-11 & a whole lot more including our usual contributors This issues editorial...
June July 2020 – The ISO issue
BLACKWOOD, YOU ARE GROUSE. When the whole world upended, it felt that our little town had miraculously landed on top. “Where else would you rather be?” we kept asking each other, not quite believing our luck. Nature was turning it on for us, the weather was kind, the...