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National campaign will promote region’s food and farmers HAPPER GROWERS: CC Diaz-Petersen and her husband Greg Petersen are looking forward to their Rosella Festiva, which will be part of the Forage Gympie Region campaign. News Staff Reporter Premium Content Opinion piece by Councillor Shane Waldock We all know the Gympie region is the place to be, although if there was a month that you just can’t afford not to be here, it’s got to be May....

Premium Content Subscriber only All but one of Gympie Regional Councils nine councillors has received a better report card from Gympie Times readers at the one year mark, than they were given six months ago. Mayor Glen Hartwig was top of the class with respondents to The Gympie Times online poll, scoring an A-minus for his performance 12 months into his first term in the top job. His result was buoyed by more half of respondents giving him an A (good), which boosted his grade from the B he w...

The developer of a controversial motorsport park at Bella Creek is pushing back at tight restrictions enforced by Gympie Regional Council on the project when it was approved late last year Scott Cantys decade-long fight to have the park approved ended last October when the park was given a green light provided 25 conditions were met. Now Mr Canty is asking for some of these to be altered or deleted entirely. Points of contention include conditions placed around the serving of food on the si...

An opinion piece by Gympie Regional councillor Dolly Jensen Quote: Here’s to strong women; may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. As International Women’s Day gets closer, I look back with a small smile of satisfaction when I see how far we have come. But then, with a little trepidation, I look ahead and see how far we still have to go. We’re getting there, slowly. Really slowly. Just recently, I signed up for a nine month course through LGAQ called “Women Leading in Loca...

Gympie’s pandemic resilience has continued to show, with the region recording more than 100 building approvals in the final month of 2020. Gympie Regional Council revealed on Tuesday that 127 approvals were issued in December, with 19 of those for roof repairs. With re-roofing out of the equation, the 108 approvals was the highest December result in five years. These included 38 new dwellings and one removal. In comparison 72 approvals were issued in December 2019, including 15 new houses ...

Premium Content Subscriber only GYMPIE region councillors and staff have come under attack on social media over a controversial decision to repeal environment protection laws, with an inflammatory post by ex-councillor Dr Daryl Dodt going further than any other post. In the lead-up to and during debate on the laws, Facebook users fired away at those involved in the discussion with accusations of falsities and questions of integrity. A post on a Facebook page apparently run by Gympie GP and f...