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Richelle Hodson is a reporter for The Gympie Times. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Queensland. She has worked in corporate communications in Brisbane, and interned at a digital fashion magazine in New York City.

Richelle Hodson

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Gympie

Knife, pills, spray paint: Teen ordered to pay $7k after graffiti attacks

A magistrate has told a teenager to “buy a canvas” and to pay $7k after he tagged community organisations and called it art.

Gympie

Todd Pooley (Leader of Learning - PE), Flynn Nolan (student), Ayden Mitchell (student) and Mark Newton (Principal) at the gym.

IN PICTURES: Elite private school lunges into $500k gym

A “commercial” quality, $500k gym has opened at one of Gympie’s elite private schools with access promised to students and staff to encourage a love of exercise.

Gympie

From sports stars to musicians, artists to business owners, learn more about these 30 outstanding young people.

Poised to dominate: 25 up and coming superstars under 35

From sports stars to musicians, artists and businessmen and women, these talented, competitive young people from all corners of the Gympie region – some as young as 12 – are blazing a trail and shaping the future.

Gympie

A man in his 30s was airlifted to hospital on Friday with a suspected head injury.

Tree lopping emergency: Man flown to hospital after yard accident

A man with “suspected head injury” has been flown by rescue helicopter to the Sunshine Coast after he was “hit” by a tree in the Gympie region. UPDATES.

Gympie

Australian Army Cadets walked in unison.

PICTURES: Gympie unites for 2024 Anzac Day march

The Gympie 2024 Anzac Day parade down Mary Street was led by East Timor veterans, marking 25 years since Interfet, the multinational non-United Nations peacemaking task force, organised and led by Australia. PHOTOS, VIDEO

Police & Courts

General, generic file photo of Queensland Ambulance Service advanced care paramedics responding to a medical emergency in Cairns. Picture: Brendan Radke

Injured driver taken to Gympie Hospital after Tin Can Bay Rd crash

A man was taken to Gympie Hospital Wednesday evening after a two-car crash at the intersection of Brookes Rd and Tin Can Bay Rd in Canina, near Gympie.

Police & Courts

Steel was imprisoned for 15 months, with immediate parole.

Stalker farmer sent ex 178 messages, suicide threats, death threats

A Gympie ginger farmer stalked his former partner, sometimes tracking her location, turning up there and threatening to kill her and her new partner.

Police & Courts

Hickey pleaded guilty on Wednesday to entering the teenâs vehicle with intent, unlawfully using the vehicle, obstructing a police officer and contravening a direct requirement given by a police officer.

‘Give me the keys, or I’ll put a bullet hole in you’: Teen’s terror in Mary Valley

A hang-out with friends at the Railway Hotel in Imbil turned devastating for a 17-year-old boy when his life was threatened and his car stolen.

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A Gympie toddler has gone viral on TikTok after her mother posted a video of her belting Benson Booneâs Beautiful Things on Monday.

Aussie toddler goes viral over hit song

A 17-month-old toddler has gone viral on social media after performing a hit song.

Police & Courts

Man allegedly raped girls while playing video games

A video game enthusiast has faced Gympie court on multiple sexual offence charges against two pre-pubescent girls, including rape and attempted rape.

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