‘They can’t build them as fast as I can swim them’
Publisher and father-of-three, Kenton Webb, has spent the past 30 years on a mission to swim 1000m in 1000 pools across the world. This week he achieved his 600th milestone in Gympie.
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Region’s cheapest childcare centres revealed
With cost of living soaring and impacting on childcare prices around the state and nation, these are the childcare centres with the lowest prices to be found in the Wide Bay and Burnett.
Midnight shock as car slams into sleeping woman’s home
A Gympie region resident has been woken in shock and terror after a car, driven by a teenager, veered through an intersection and into her house in the middle of the night.
Watch: Lucky escape from burning cabin for woman and dog
A woman has lost all of her possessions and three beloved pets in an early morning fire at a caravan park on the Old Bruce Highway. Watch the video
Mary Valley, Gympie on alert over measles case
The Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Services has issued an public health alert after a person confirmed to have the disease visited several locations.
Mum and two sons left homeless after losing everything in fire
A GoFundMe page and a popular boxing gym has thrown support behind the Gympie family who lost their possessions after a fire destroyed the timber house early Wednesday morning.
Warning issued over planned burn south of Gympie
Residents of several rural areas south of Gympie have been warned about a bushfire burning between three populated areas.
New business challenges the way we buy food, combats waste
Gympie’s newest business is tackling a global issue and has created a boujie store you might more likely expect to find in a green, inner-city Brisbane suburb. Watch the video.
‘No bloody koalas left’: Is farm restoration too little, too late?
Concerns for the Gympie region’s dwindling koala population have come to the forefront as 100,000 koala friendly trees are planted at Lower Wonga.
How one of the last dine-in Pizza Huts is defying time
Pizza Hut’s were once all you can eat buffets and dining institutions across Australia. Now, they are almost exclusively delivery services, with Gympie’s beloved business a rare exception. We take a look inside one of Queensland’s last surviving dine-in Hut’s.
Original URL: https://www.thechronicle.com.au/journalists/christine-schindler/page/67