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Shelley Strachan is the respected and award winning Editor of The Gympie Times, a mother of four, and a passionate advocate for her hometown (Gympie), the region it is the centre of and the people who live there. A recipient of multiple PANPA Community News Brand of the Year awards, and the coveted News Corp Achievements in Regional Journalism award, Shelley Strachan cut her journalistic teeth as a cadet at The Gympie Times before spending some time as a sub-editor with Quest Community papers in Brisbane and then returning to the idyllic lifestyle the Gympie region offers. She proudly leads a talented team of journalists covering all the news of the Gympie region 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Mayor Mick Curran hears the train a’comin’

Mayor Mick Curran hears the train a’comin’

MICK Curran is a happy Mayor following the State Government’s carefully worded, conditional approval of $4.7 million for the Rattler.

Mayor Mick Curran and Member for Gympie Tony Perrett. Mr Perrett has refrained from any exuberance over the State Government announcement. Picture: Renee Albrecht

Is Perrett’s reaction to Rattler money a worry?

Gympie Regional Council says it’s a done deal but Gympie MP Tony Perrett has issued his “guarded” support for Labor’s multi-million promise

The Cooloola Cove Shopping Centre.

New bus service to help stranded Bay shoppers

Polleys steps in to help Tin Can Bay shoppers left stranded following the closure of the IGA supermarket.

THEN AND NOW: Langshaw is a different sight now compared to two years ago, as illustrated in these two photos.

Gympie region a different place two years later

TWO years of “low rainfall, crazy heat and strange seasons” at Langshaw has resulted in a starkly different landscape compared to two years ago

Young farmers are urged to upskill in thelight of a positive outlook for agriculture this year. Picture: Jodie DixonBIT280816TRUCK

Young farmers urged to upskill in light of outlook

Young farmers urged to upskill to capitalise on buoyant outlook

A new program being launch on Wednesday will offer help to Startups in the Gympie region. Picture: gpointstudio

Startups get a leg up in Gympie region

ENTREPRENEURS and innovators in the Gympie region will benefit from an innovative program being launched next Wednesday at the Gympie RSL from 7am.

As this region grows it must put its best foot forward

As this region grows it must put its best foot forward

EVIDENCE of Gympie’s growth spurt continues to present itself through our building statistics, jobless figures and, as in today’s GT, redevelopment plans

INTO THE FUTURE: Investigation boards for the Bundaberg, Burdekin-Haughton, Lower Mary and Mareeba-Dimbulah irrigation schemes will deliver revised business cases setting out how they may operate under local management. Picture: fotokostic

Mary irrigators move closer to local management

MARY River irrigators are one step closer to managing their own schemes after the Water Amendment Bill 2016 was passed by the Parliament this week.

1999 FLOOD Gympie residents near Kidd Bridge on the evening of Monday the 8, as the Mary River steadily rose, few realised what was about to happen over the next 24 hours. Picture: Renee Albrecht

A pictorial look at the 1999 Gympie floods

Take a walk down memory land with this pictorial tribute to the 1999 floods in Gympie

DEADLY CATCH: This eastern brown snake was caught in a Banksia Beach garden recently by Beachmere snake catcher Harrison. Picture: Charles McAnoy

‘Desperate’ snakes more underfoot & in your face

IF THE snakes seem more “in your face” or “in your bedroom” this summer, you are not imagining it.

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