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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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EAT STREET + Terrgal - Lord Ashley - High Tea with sparkling wine, photo - Jenifer Jagielski 2

LIST: 9 Mother’s Day events in the Gympie region

Mother’s Day is just days away and if you’re looking for options to do something different for Mum you might find the answer in this list

Gympie

An aerial image of Anglo American's Grosvenor Mine. Picture: Daryl Wright

‘Still get chills’: Miners reflect a year on from horror explosion

A year ago today, every underground miner’s worst nightmare became a reality when an explosion at a Moranbah mine rocked the industry to its core. A Gympie man was one of five seriously injured.

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Thank you, midwives of the Gympie region

On International Day of the Midwife 2021, The Gympie Times celebrates the enormous contribution midwives make to our community. We need to make sure this valuable workforce is not only recognised, but the challenges facing them and those they care for are highlighted and addressed

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Generic imagery of St Johns Ambulance, Northern Territory.Picture: Che Chorley

Person with head, chest injuries after Gympie region crash

Paramedics are treating two people for injuries at the scene after a car overturned on a country road near Miva, north west of Gympie

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Wide Bay MP Llew O'Brien and Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey continue to go tit for tat over the Bruce Highway Bypass of Tiaro.

‘Do your job Mark Bailey and bring 4 lanes forward’

Wide Bay MP Llew O’Brien has slammed the State Transport Minister, saying that to suggest the Australian Government could budget for a four-lane Tiaro Bypass without the State Government first planning for it was “patently wrong”

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Goomeri Hall of Memory, 2017.Attribution: Contributed

Iconic Goomeri Hall’s $127k revamp starts this week

Part of the historic Hall of Memory’s restoration will be done in time for the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival, and the rest finished by early June

Gympie

The question of whether the Bruce Highway Tiaro Bypass is four lanes or two could rest with the Federal Budget, to be brought down on May 11, 2021.

Will O’Brien get the money for a 4-lane Tiaro Bypass?

Qld Transport Minister Mark Bailey says the decision on whether the Bypass will be two or four lanes rests with Mr O’Brien’s government and the Federal Budget, which will be brought down on May 11

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Fire has destroyed a home at Pie Creek on Herron Road in the early hours of May 2, 2021.

Crime scene investigation after fire destroys Gympie home

Police are asking for public assistance after the Pie Creek creek fire was deemed ‘suspicious’ and a number of items were reported as stolen from the property.

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Teen lucky to be alive after car hits tree in Mary Valley

Witnesses who were among the first on the scene described how the young man was slipping in and out of consciousness and had blood coming from his nose and mouth

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The empty space where the timber footbridge once stood.

Heritage listed footbridge disappears

Concern was raised this week about the disappearance of Gympie’s beloved heritage listed footbridge that links Lady Mary Terrace to Station Road

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