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Four short, deliberately small events. That was Beechworth History and Heritage Society's answer to a big question: how do you get a town to actually engage with its own layered history, rather than just walk past the plaques? Timed to the National Trust's Australian Heritage Festival, "Dig into Beechworth" ran a Ching Ming commemoration at the town's historic Chinese cemetery, marking more than 2,000 Chinese people, many of them goldminers, interred there since the 1850s. Al

An 89kW battery bolted onto the Old Beechworth Gaol is about to do double duty: cutting emissions and keeping the lights on when the grid can't. Indigo Power's BEECH01, part of the ARENA-funded Community Batteries for Resilience Project, pairs a 339kWh battery with new rooftop solar (installed on internal-facing roof sections to protect the heritage site's appearance) to store local solar generation and share it with participating households through the Beechworth Community E

A lightning-struck Californian sequoia from Beechworth's Centennial Park is now seating in the town's revitalised Railway Precinct. That's the kind of detail that sums up this project. Led by Indigo Shire Council and Tourism North East as part of the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail Enhancements, the precinct has gone from an underused paddock to a landmark stop on the trail: nature play by Yackandandah sculptor Ben Gilbert, a public pavilion, accessible amenities, lighting upg

Meet Indigo Regen, Tidy Towns finalist in Behaviour Change Campaigns and Education. Beechworth has a food waste problem, like everywhere else. Indigo Regen's answer isn't a lecture. It's a seat. Cool Seats are raised garden beds with a hinged lid: drop your food scraps in, and worms do the rest. Five are now installed around town, outside the Early Years Learning Centre, Quercus Neighbourhood House, Beechworth Montessori, the Old Beechworth Gaol and Bandit Café. Each one dive