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Jorina Maureschat is a reporter for the Sunshine Coast region focusing on court, business and property. Jorina completed her cadet year with The Gympie Times in 2022. The masthead won a regional campaign award for the team’s Save Our Sport campaign advocating for sports communities affected by the 2022 floods.

Jorina Maureschat

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Gympie

Watch: Council’s $1m sports funding cut a ‘kick in the guts’

Months after being devastated by floods, Gympie sporting clubs have suffered another brutal blow after local funding was cut when they needed it most. VIDEO.

Gympie

Rental market down to bare bones as quirky business closes

The Gympie Bone Museum is gone for now after becoming the latest casualty in the rental market crisis but its owners hope someone in the community might have the solution.

Police & Courts

Deckhand’s body lost at sea, trawler captain sentenced

The captain of a Queensland fishing trawler has been sentenced over a “tragedy” where a deckhand went overboard, never to be seen again.

Police & Courts

Melita Ebony Moran was charged for a series of offences including stealing, driving without a licence and unlwaful use of a motor vehicle.

Aspiring beauty therapist stole car, clothes in16-charge spree

A young mum who committed a series of traffic offences on drugs and stole from major retailers like Big W and SportsPower, has been sentenced.

Police & Courts

Paul Cameron Franz appeared in court on Monday after being charged with common assault.

‘Appalling’: Unhung laundry escalates fight, leads to assault

A Gympie man who slammed a sliding door into a woman’s body before dumping the contents of a watering can over her and hitting her in the head with it faced the court this week.

Gympie

‘Gympie is extraordinary’: Flood legend’s plan to feed city

Naomi Wilson has visited more than 200 flood-damaged Gympie homes. Now, she’s leading the latest community project helping locals feed their families amid ongoing tough times.

Gympie

Woman taken to Gympie Hospital with burns

A woman was transported to hospital after receiving burns in a kitchen accident.

Gympie

Renae held fashion market stalls at car shows for all vintage loving communities. Photo: Mark Greenmantle Photography

New school transforms students into vintage fashion pin-ups

A Sunshine Coast business woman with a passion for fashion and styling relocated to the Gympie region, drawn by its charming aesthetics and “vintage vibe”.

Gympie

Caz and Matthew Crane, owners of the Woolooga Longyard and several other Woolooga businesses. Photo: Elizabeth Neil

‘Bring Woolooga back’: Family fights to revive country town

A family of four is working to bring life back into the small township west of Gympie, but the journey hasn’t been easy after flooding forced the family to start from scratch. Read their inspiring story, watch the video:

Sport

‘Unsustainable’: Rugby club pleads for its own home ground

Junior numbers at the Gympie Hammers continue to rise, but the club has pleaded for its own home ground after being driven out of Albert Park by the May floods, and forced to share alternate smaller playing grounds that are not standing up to the overuse.

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