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A kindy is coming

Excitement is building at the Rainbow Beach State School now that the official word has come that a kindergarten has now been approved and...

Goomeri School part of Super Vax Weekend

Goomeri State School will be part of the biggest Queensland Covid-19 vaccination blitz with a pop-up clinic operating from 8am-2pm. This Saturday (October 23), Goomeri...

Du Rietz winner shows solo exhibition

Carol Forster is a Sunshine Coast-based artist and recent winner of the 2021 Du Rietz Budget Steel 3D Award. Carol has been working with...

Gympie great takes centre stage

It is said there’s a Peter Hughes’ painting hanging in every second home in Gympie ...as well as on the walls of Queensland’s...

A special celebration at Country concert

The next Gympie Country Music Club Concert will be held on Saturday October 23, beginning at 1pm at the Senior Citizens Centre on Mellor...

Pop-up vaxx clinic this weekend

Gympie residents will have even more opportunities to get vaccinated as Gympie High School is one of 19 pop-up vaccination clinics open across selected...

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...

Gympie woman lauded in Queensland Day honours

A Gympie woman is among five Queenslanders who embody the State spirit and enrich their community by supporting others and have been honoured with...