Shelley Strachan

A SPECIAL meeting took place out back of the VIP Tent at the 2012 Optus Gympie Music Muster on Sunday night, minutes before international country superstar Kenny Rogers took to the main stage.

BUNNINGS plans to build a $41 million megastore in Gympie that will generate hundreds of jobs and strengthen Gympie's status as a major business and commercial centre.

WILDLIFE and marine park rangers north of Gympie set baited traps to catch a large crocodile spotted and photographed on the banks of the Mary River on Tuesday.

THE baby of next month's state election dropped out of high school three years ago at the age of 15 and could not place Mary St or discuss any of the region's issues this week when asked by The Gympie Times.

A STORM eventually ended play in the final day of competition in the Goodchild Shield at Albert Park on Sunday, but not before Gympie had put enough runs on the board and taken enough wickets from the South Burnett to claim victory.

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A SMALL crowd gathered at Goldfields Plaza last Tuesday morning to celebrate the official opening of the new-look Gympie RACQ office and to farewell retiring supervisor Meryl Hammond.