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Spreading Christmas cheer!

Holiday season can be a challenging time, so the team at Century 21 wants the community to come together to make a difference for...

From the editor’s desk

"Of course, I could be wrong... " It is a constant lesson in humility to find things I felt so strongly about when I was...

Quota helps out the Brothers

Gympie Quotarians, Joy, Noela, and Margie dropped off many toy donations on behalf of the group for the Military Brotherhood’s Christmas Toy run, recently. Gympie...

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Sport

Christmas cheer for bowls club crew

The Gympie Bowls Club’s Christmas Trophy Day, last Tuesday, was very well received. There were 12 teams competing altogether, with five teams from the Gympie...

Stella’s Royal Pines win

Gympie’s flag was flying high at the Queensland District Championships played at Royal Pines last week. Member of the Gympie Ladies Golf Club, Stella...

Road trips + great golf = magnificent week

Last week was a magnificent week of golf for the Gympie Golf Club Veterans. First, there was a great field of players on Tuesday...

Bringing talent to the fore

The threat of bad weather didn’t stop the young and not-so-young taking to the track at the Cooloola BMX Club last Friday night. All tackled...

Jostling for finals spots

Squash Results Week 14: This was the final week for the teams to earn points and determine positions for the finals starting next week. B...

Harriers tackle ‘Heart attack Hill’

All 22 Gympie Hash House Harriers were challenged from the get-go last Monday, with the hare taking the walkers and runners straight up Calton...

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Entertainment

Quizzers strain their brains

The rain and a host of other events kept a lot of the punters away from the Gympie Theatre Association (GTA) Trivia Night on...

Whimsy meets schlock

Rod Hollens’ second feature-length film, Harold Bum’s Diary, played for one night only at Gympie Cinemas on Monday, 20 November. A mash-up of ‘50s...

Outback Art returns to Gympie Gallery

Local artist Danny Bickmore returns to Gympie Regional Gallery with a deeply personal exhibition celebrating the Central Australian landscape. Born in Alice Springs and...

GTA gets Wicked (Again)

They might know Halloween is done and dusted for the year, but for the Gympie Theatre Association Inc. (GTA), any excuse to dress up...

Still bent, never broken

Gympie comedian, Christopher Widdows, better known to the world as the internationally acclaimed, and even infamous Steady Eddy, is returning for his national tour,...

Dadaesque gala on this weekend

Tamara Kirby, the architect behind the project BerlinDaDa says, “In true DaDa style, if you are partial to dressing up, please do.” "And if so,...

Gympie Flows Forward

Our campaign’s end

Over the past 12 months, we’ve brought you stories about the ongoing battle to right our region after the devastating floods of 2022. There is...

Gympie connection to new SES head

The day after the worst flood to hit Gympie in living memory lifted the level of the Mary River at the weir to 22.96m...

Mary River clean-up

Sediment laden run-off from the Mary River has been identified as a leading cause of poor water quality in the inner Great Barrier Reef,...

Big Mary eco-spend

Gympie region and its near neighbours are big winners in a major federal and state funded flood recovery bonanza for "significant environmental and land...

Mary workers helping reef

A consortium of environment groups is working to improve Mary River runoff quality, in a bid to save notr just the river itself, but...

Don’t forget flash flooding

The Gympie Region has recently been on flood watch with the consistent wet weather and three uninjured patients were rescued from flood water on...

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Free drop-off for hazardous waste

Free disposal of chemicals, paint, oils and other hazardous waste materials will be less of a headache for Gympie residents after a free drop-off...

‘Senior’ theme for morning tea donations

More than sixty people attended the Lions Club of Gympie Community Morning Tea held at the Senior Citizens Centre on Thursday, 13 November. Entertainment for...

Giveaways ‘more than a million’

Gympie and District Community Bendigo Bank has topped the million dollar mark in grants to community groups, "to address local issues and influence a...

Patients stranded” in hospitals

A funding crisis in aged and disability care services has left Gympie's overstretched Sunshine Coast hospital system with 74 patients stranded in hospital because...

New board, sweet success: Weeroona AGM highlights community impact

Noah and Nel are two 19-year-olds turning their love of baking into skills, confidence, and community connection through Weeroona Association’s Wow Brownies! social enterprise....

Townsville trip helps Jack hone his skills

Tin Can Bay’s own Jack Howlett has done his school and community proud, representing Wide Bay at the State Athletics Championships in Townsville. At the...