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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...

The next best thing to treatment at home

For Gympie woman Belinda Hansen, being told leukaemia had returned after eight blissful years in remission, was heart-breaking and gut wrenching. The 68-year-old’s health...

Brother ultimately killed by his own brother

If you are lover of language, you will enjoy the content of early newspapers now freely available using Trove. The story recounted here indicates...

Cedar Pocket Hall to reopen

The Cedar Pocket Hall were fortunate enough to receive funding from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund for Refresh works. The hall sustained damage from water...

Chapman’s tribute