Cyclonic seas and gale force winds start Coast New Year
Gale force winds and big seas combined with extremely high tides to create dangerous surf and boating conditions off the Cooloola Coast as the...
Don’t use imported prawns for bait
With festivities in full swing, remember not to use supermarket prawns as bait or throw the remains in the ocean, as they may carry...
Reducing reef pollution
Stakeholders and riverbank landowners heard a vital update this month on the four-year consortium project, the ‘Mary River Recovery Project’ and its contributions over...
Hannah’s brave chop
PRECEDE
Each year the Gympie Today team put our heads together to decide who should be named our Person of the Year for 2021.
There have...
What a great day to win a boat!
The annual Christmas giveaway party for members was held at the Rainbow Beach Sports Club last week and yes, someone won a boat.
There...
A boring year for Christmas
Looked at overall, 2021 cannot be said to be boring, except for every excruciating moment of it.
A year that seemed so never-ending, has now...
Let’s have a plan
The need for transparency is rarely more urgent or neglected than in issues involving the Cooloola Coast and its dominant state bureaucracy, the Department...
Death row trees
The fate of leopard trees the length of Mary Street had already been decided by the time former Gympie Chamber of Commerce president and...
Sacred site or highway?
While the controversy around a site east of Gympie known locally as The Gympie Pyramid at Rocky Ridge has been fairly consistent over the...
Bay’s big centenary bash
Preserving Tin Can Bay history may sound all very earnest, but organisers of the town’s big 100th birthday bash have promised it will be...
Koalas left homeless
This story actually begins in December 2020 when the Gympie Regional Council voted to repeal local planning laws known as Temporary Local Planning Instruments,...
Hillcoat opens the way for Wilson’s Pocket
Gympie man DANIEL GREEN has released a publication titled The History of Education in the Gympie Region 1867-2020 which highlights the history of 160...
Art in the blood for generations
Just as realist artist Lew Brennan was driven by being surrounded by art ‘soaking through my pores’, especially his great-great-grandfather Henry’s charcoal drawings, so...
