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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...

Pumpkin committee for 2026

It will be 30 years of Goomeri Pumpkin Festival by the time the 2026 festival rolls around, so the committee is getting a head...

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Sport

Twists and turns in jackpots pairs

It was another fabulous day at the Cooloola Coast Bowls Club with an exciting game of jackpots pairs after a productive bowls committee meeting...

Pete’s 200th run as director

The runners at the Victory Heights Park Run in Gympie were excited to celebrate a milestone for run director, Peter Olson. Last weekend was the...

Harriers’ ’bad’ Bart Simpson trail

A run or walk shared with others is always much more enjoyable and easier and last Monday’s Gympie Hash House Harriers runners 8+km trail...

60 players endure heat

In addition to regular fixtures this week, the Gympie Squash Club hosted a Qld Masters Tournament over the weekend, with 60 players taking to...

Jean scores 120 to take out player of the month

Congratulations to Jean Peters, who scored a total of 120 Stableford points to take out the Gympie Golf Club Ladies Player of the Month...

No jackpot won for Nov comp

Last Thursday, 6 November, Gympie Bowls Club had its November Jackpot Pairs Day with 22 teams in attendance. The weather was much cooler than...

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Entertainment

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,...

Coast songbird joins Gympie’s country crowd

The Gympie Country Music Club is tuning up for its next concert on Saturday, 22 November, kicking off at 1pm at the Senior Citizens...

Music makes the world go around

From modest beginnings at a church hall in Nambour, to the biggest cathedrals in Europe, Oriana Choir has grown in strength and passion across...

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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Rainbow ‘tourists’ leap from chopper, on purpose

Rainbow Beach was treated to a spectacular display from skydivers last Friday and Saturday as competitors from across Australia descended on the coastal paradise...

Scorching prizes for P&C’s summer raffle

Amamoor State School’s P&C Association is rolling out its annual raffle, and with limited tickets available, locals are being encouraged to get in early...

Show fundraiser set down for next month

Gympie Showgirl and Rural Ambassador competition co-ordinator, Fran Gregory, says the record number of entrants for next year's competition has seen the girls hit...

Crash victims airlifted from K’gari

Two vehicle crash victims were airlifted from K'gari, during a busy few days for LifeFlight aeromedical crews late last week, a spokesperson said. A man...

Drought: ‘The second best time to prepare is now’

Farmers say the rain always breaks into a drought and Regional Development Australia Wide Bay Burnett is leading the delivery of a Regional Drought...

Anglers hook big prizes for clubhouse raffle

The Rainbow Beach Amateur Anglers (RBAA) are lucky to have some of the region’s most generous local businesses backing their annual fundraiser. The support...