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Premium Content Subscriber only The Gympie arts community is calling on the council to give it some certainty as to the future of its River Rd base, saying it is at risk of having to give back more than $40,000 in funding without it. Creative Arts Gympie Region has been calling the former Quartz Hub building on River Rd, opposite Memorial Park, home since the middle of last year after the two groups merged. Secretary Lesa Campbell said the plan was to turn the building into an arts hub, home to everything from live music to performance. But in November last year they were told by the coun...

Ensuring Gympie Regional Council tender and procurement processes are about fairness and honesty - "not jobs for mates" - are among the focuses of the council as it closes in on its first year in office. Mayor Glen Hartwig and council CEO Shane Gray addressed a full house at the first Gympie Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting for 2021 last week, outlining the state of the region and the council's top priorities moving forward. Mr Hartwig listed roads as a major focus, saying good roads would further stimulate the local economy, especially in light of the fact that agriculture, timber an...

More than 750 jobs have been lost in Gympie because of COVID, but other local industries and businesses have prospered

SPECIALISING in aged care, and building on the already dominant industries of agriculture, forestry and fishing were just two ideas touted to have big potential for a rapidly growing Gympie region economy at the 2021 State of the Region presentation by the Gympie Chamber of Commerce yesterday. A full house at the newly renovated RSL in Mary Street heard from Mayor Glen Hartwig, council CEO Shane Gray and Wide Bay Burnett director of regional development Scott Rowe on the region's strengths, weaknesses, economic development opportunities and plans for the future. Despite having an older, po...

Southside residents hoping to be hooked up to the city's sewerage network will be waiting until at least 2022 or longer for work to resume, if it ever does. Gympie regional councillors said they will focus on communication with residents affected by delays to the scheme following more extensive discussion about how to foot the expected $15 million bill to deliver the final nine stages of the 16-stage project. The project was scheduled to be finished in 2026. It has been stalled since 2018 amid questions over whether landholders being connected should pick up part of the costs, or if the s...