Shaun and Pete delight
The Gympie Pavilion was turned into a shearing shed on Friday, 20 August, when the comedic show, Pete the Sheep, came to town.
Adapted from...
Enviro book includes message to PM
It isn’t every day you receive a handwritten letter of support from Sir David Attenborough.
Yet it happened to two Sunshine Coast environmentalists after sending...
Road Safety messages so important
Between Monday 16 and Saturday 21 August Senior Constable Darren Hewitt from Gympie District Crime Prevention supported Queensland Road Safety Week (QRSW) for 2021.
On...
Art highlights kinship and caring for children
During Foster and Kinship Carer Week, Gympie Anglicare Children and Families team commissioned a lovely piece of artwork featuring thumbprints of carer’s, handprints of...
The enigma of the one-armed man
Wingie was the ‘nickname’ of (Bill) William Harvey Connellan, a one-armed man - a fact which earned him his nickname.
The story of Wingie the...
Space day ‘out of this world’
On Thursday 19 August, Two Mile State School hosted “A Day of Space Adventure”.
The Year 5/6 class spent weeks learning about space and...
Waiting for the bus concert
The fundraising never stops for the Community Bus, and with the dust barely settled after the last concert, the committee have already set the...
Muster been a great race day
There were some fine fashioned fillies and fancy footed foals out at the Nolan's Muster Cup Race Day last Saturday.
It was a beautiful, clear...
Back to school for Officer Darren
On Friday, 11 June, Senior Constable Darren Hewitt from Gympie District Crime Prevention was officially appointed the St Patrick's Primary School Adopt-a-Cop in Gympie.
Senior...
Blue Saturday
Saturday's line-up of Fashions on the Field contestants at the Nolan's Muster Cup certainly had some blue notes, with turquoise, cerulean and azure seemingly...
Lions pre-loved fashions roar
Volunteers at the Gympie Lions Community Op Shop in Mary St Gympie have been busy sorting donated stock in preparation for the spring season....
60th Dinner planned for Gympie Lions
The Board of the Lions Club of Gympie are well on the way with their planning of the Club’s 60th Anniversary Dinner.
Club President, Glenn...
Gold rush history hits the market
One of Gympie's grand historical buildings, older than the Commonwealth of Australia and nearly as old as Gympie itself, 236 Mary Street, is on...
