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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. We have just launched the ‘Forage Gympie Region’ campaign which highlights and promotes ...

Premium Content Subscriber only All but one of Gympie Regional Council's 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 was given in October last year. The remainder of Mr Hartwig's results were split almost evenly acr...

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 Canty's 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 site, the construction of a 6m wide gravel track inside the park, the need for a dedicated parking ar...