It's an unwritten rule that the longer you live in a town, the more you become an authority on the unofficial things such as nicknames.
Universally accepted and rarely challenged, those nicknames are generally passed down through generations or are changed as the population does.
For Walkerston, the nickname Scrubby has been around for - well, long-term resident Ray Hamilton says "forever".
A recent caller to the
Daily Mercury took exception to referring to Walkerston by the moniker so when My Town headed to the Wests Mackay Leagues Club this week, we asked a handful of residents what they thought.