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...
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...
Minister’s position on Men’s Shed
The Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Brent Mickelberg, wanted to have his say on the Gympie Men's Shed situation.
What follows is a statement...
