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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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Almost 200 South Burnett prep students have participated in the 2025 My First Year gallery of the Class of 2037. These are the fun pics, the bloopers and the silly faces.

My First Year: Funny faces and bloopers of our 2025 preppies

The Prep students of the South Burnett might be getting big, but they’re still having fun along the way. See the gallery of My First Year silly faces and outtakes.

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Meet the South Burnett Class of 2037, the 2025 Preppies who began their school careers earlier this month. We have taken photos of every class at almost every school across the region to capture this important moment in their lives.

My First Year: 310+ adorable faces of South Burnett preppies

Meet the South Burnett Class of 2037, the 2025 Preppies who began their school careers earlier this month. We have taken photos of every class at almost every school across the region to capture this important moment in their lives.

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Torquay Caravan Park.

‘Unbecoming’: Heated remarks as council debates future of caravan parks

The debate became heated during a council motion over the future of two Hervey Bay caravan parks, with the mayor forced to intervene twice.

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Police & Courts

Gympie Bull n Bronc - Under 18 Junior Bull Ride, Nash Jones. Picture: Shane Zahner

Police appeal for witnesses to second ‘eshay’ attack at Bull n Bronc

Gympie police have confirmed a second investigation is underway after at least two people were bashed, spat on and even bitten by a “horde” of teenagers in separate incidents at the annual Bull n Bronc rodeo.

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Meet the Gympie Class of 2038, the 2025 Preppies who began their school careers earlier this month. We have taken photos of every class at every school across the region to capture this important moment in their lives.

My First Year: Gympie region Prep photos 2025

The Gympie Times has been to every primary school in the region to photograph every prep class of 2025, the full Class of 2037 in their hundreds. See our mega gallery of schools here.

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Scenes of the crash posted by SCarlett Logan to the Blackbutt Community Chat Facebook page on Friday.

‘Long recovery ahead’: Man in 60s airlifted after horror crash on D’Aguilar Hwy

The D’Aguilar Highway was closed for two hours while a man trapped in the wreckage of a vehicle was freed and airlifted to Brisbane after a crash involving four people Friday morning.

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MY FIRST YEAR: Gympie State School Prep N 2025.

My First Year: Gympie preps funny faces and bloopers

From zombies to monkey ears and everything in between, Prep students across Gympie pulled their best silly faces for the camera, as The Gympie Times captured lasting memories for the 2025 My First Year gallery.

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Some of the top five in the search for Gympie's favourite PT in 2025.

‘Gympie is in good hands’: Region’s top personal trainers revealed

Gympie son and veteran personal trainer Paul Frampton has once again been voted Gympie’s favourite PT, just beating out 2024 Best Coach Bradley Morris, and those who made it into the top six.

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A still from the video of young men doing multiple somersaults from the top of the arch of Queenslandâs oldest bridge at least 30m above the water has had almost 100,000 views and plenty of criticism.

Watch: Bridge daredevils record themselves cheating death

Police say they are aware of a video of people diving from the extreme height of an arch straddling the Dickabram Bridge at least 30m above the Mary River near Gympie. Watch the video

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Paramedics are treating a 75 year old man trapped in a vehicle on a private property near Old Traveston Road.

Paramedics work on man trapped in Traveston rollover

Emergency crews are on the scene of an incident on private property near the Old Traveston Road, where two men have been involved and one trapped in a vehicle.

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