School turns 100
It was a picture perfect day for the centenary celebration for Amamoor State School last weekend.
More than 350 present and former students, staff and...
Mining fatalities focus of next cemetery crawl
The Gympie Family History Society will be holding its October Cemetery Crawl on Sunday afternoon 23 October at 4pm, with a special focus on...
Morning tea delights
The Lions Club of Gympie held its second Community Morning Tea at the Gympie Senior Citizens Centre last Thursday with 70 people attending along...
Enough rubbish to sink a ship
To those who joined the Sunshine Coast Surfrider Foundation at their annual Clean Up Double Island last weekend, we thank you.
Instead of the...
Longer deeper dives now at Wolf Rock
Located in Rainbow Beach, Wolf Rock Dive is a popular scuba diving site for grey nurse sharks and in the past divers have travelled...
Man flown to hospital after nasty Veteran crash
The Sunshine Coast RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter has flown a man to hospital after he was involved in a car crash in the Gympie...
Protestors seek eleventh hour reprieve
Despite the seeming defeat of indigenous protestors at the Rocky Ridge site also known as the Gympie Pyramid last Friday, the Sovereign Native Tribes...
’They broke their promise’
First Nations protestors at the Rocky Ridge site (also known as the Gympie Pyramid) were forcibly removed from their occupation of the site last...
Bulldozers move in as protestors forced out
The Department of Transport and Main Roads were moving ahead late last week with their plans to bulldoze the Rocky Ridge site, also known...
Sweet sounds in garden
In an amazing effort, Gympie’s RSL Sub Branch have successfully applied for 21 grants to be able to fund a jam-packed month of entertainment,...
’Stop taking safe route’
Gympie and District Driving School owner Michael Torrens has hit out against recent claims of a ‘flawed’ licence system across the state due to...
Disaster Prevention rather than cure
The Cooloola Coast Local Disaster Management Support Group (CCLDMSG) conducted the first of its two training days with Queensland Fire and Rescue personnel in...
Period poverty revealed
Data from Share the Dignity’s new Dignity Map has revealed that 55 per cent of Gympie women have missed work, 66 per cent have...
