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Southside shop works set to start

Southside Town Centre developers AHC Limited managing director Rod MacLeod and construction manager Wayne Lester on site in Gympie yesterday.

WORK could be starting on the AHC Limited Southside shopping centre complex development as soon as next Monday.

Bus driver convicted after crash

THE driver of a mini bus was lucky he and a passenger were not hurt when he caused a three-car pile-up on River Terrace.

 

Major projects boost Imbil

A view of Imbil, where two new projects look set to add 50 per cent to the town’s population.

PROGRESS has its price at Imbil, apparently, where two almost adjacent developments seem likely to increase the town's population by up to 50 per cent.

 

Asbestos scare closes quarry

An aerial view of the Monkland Quarry where naturally occurring asbestos has been found.

AN asbestos scare has closed Gympie Regional Council's Monkland quarry.
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Pool opens for long hot summer

Jeff Manthey gets ready for the re-opening of the Gympie Memorial swimming pool tomorrow.

THE water may be still a cool 19 degrees, but the Gympie Memorial Swimming Pool will re-open its doors from tomorrow.

 

Students join in music celebration

Gympie Special School sings along as part of the nationwide Count Us In singalong. Pictured from left are Liam Jerram, Nicholas Balsa, Kate Deboer, Neisha Engledow, Michael Durai, Jake Miron, Thomas Filer Wilson, Israel Osborne, Rebecca Cohen, Emily Hillhouse.

GYMPIE Special School didn't let technical difficulties stop its involvement in Australia's largest singalong, Count Us In.

 

Scooter passes through Gympie

CZECH-born Vratka Pokorna is pushing a scooter 4300 kilometres from Port Douglas to Melbourne to raise money for Save the Children.

 

Green light for retirement plan

Gympie Regional Council Planning Committee chairman Ian Petersen (left) with developers Margaret and John Cochrane on the site of their Gympie retirement village project.

A 160-UNIT retirement village proposal seems set for a green light from Gympie Regional Council, after yesterday's Planning and Development Committee meeting.

 

Claims of Fraser Island 'cover-up'

Mr Elmes has questioned the management of dingoes on Fraser Island.

THE Queensland Government's World Heritage management of Fraser Island has been called into question internationally over claimed incompetence and malice.
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Historical bridge demolished

The historic Kilkivan railway bridge being demolished by Gympie Regional Council.

MORE than 120 years of history have disappeared at Kilkivan with the removal of the overhead railway bridge in Bridge Street this week.
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No answers to chopper stunt

POLICE nor paramedics could work out why two teenagers risked their lives by running towards a helicopter when it was taking off from Rainbow Beach.

 

Bligh dodges poll 'responsibility'

Gympie MP David Gibson.

EITHER way she wants to look at it, Anna Bligh is a dud as state Premier and a failure as ALP national president – and that is according to the Labor Party.
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Man fronts court over brawl

WATCHING the nightlife from the roof of James Nash Arcade on August 8, the Wide Bay Tactical Crime Squad spotted two men being evicted from Billy's Hotel.

 

Sun comes out for pony show

Gayle McDermott with Torrieburn Fudge.

WIDE Bay Shetland Pony Promotion Group members couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day to show their ponies at Gunalda.

 

Teen let off serious charges

A GYMPIE teenager who got caught up with a group of people involved in an illicit drug lab had a charge of producing dangerous drugs downgraded in court.

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Shark feeding frenzy near Noosa

Shark feeding frenzy near Noosa

HUNDREDS of sharks, some up to 4.5m long, have been filmed in a feeding frenzy off a beach north of Noosa this morning says an AGL Action Rescue Chopper crew.

 

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Autopsies for PNG crash victims

Autopsies for PNG crash victims

THE bodies of the four victims of this week's plane crash in Papua New Guinea will be transported to Brisbane for autopsies, being released by a PNG coroner.

 

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