Queensland: Beautiful one day, raining the next … a drizzly, overcast day put a chill on the outside activities at the Queensland Week celebrations at Blackbutt at the weekend, but inside the Memorial Hall, the music was pumping.
Kingaroy grazier John Bjelke-Petersen has put up his hand to stand for Clive Palmer’s United Party at the September Federal election.
A $3000 donation by the Kingaroy-Taabinga Rotary Club has provided students from three South Burnett schools with a hands-on opportunity to design, build and test their own mini Formula 1 racing cars.
It’s not the picture you’d expect, a room full of Queensland Country Women’s Association members going “Nuts About Wine”!
The South Burnett has enjoyed a few wins from the 2013 Queensland State Budget.
The glittering Mayoral Ball held at Kingaroy Town Hall on Saturday night raised at least $30,000 for South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann’s new Charity Trust.
Saturday was Oaks Day – traditionally Ladies Day – at Eagle Farm in Brisbane but at the Kumbia races, it was truly a “day for the ladies” after female jockeys rode all five winners.
If you say it fast enough it doesn’t sound like much … 115km of fencing. But if you drove along it at top speed, it would take more than hour. Now imagine walking along 115km of fencing, carefully checking it for damage and painstakingly removing flood debris.
South Burnett roads and bridges will continue to steadily deteriorate to the point where they become untrafficable if Council can’t raise extra money, Mayor Wayne Kratzmann has warned.
St Mary’s Catholic College in Kingaroy has marked National Reconciliation Week with a special ceremony and the official opening of the school’s Bunya Dreaming Garden.
Soccer has scored a goal for Murgon teenager Joel Sommerfeld … he’s packing his bags and heading to the United States courtesy of a sports scholarship from an American university.
Back in January, a special milestone was passed in Nanango when a caring police officer referred a woman to the Alcohol and Drug Information Service.
The Goomeri Pumpkin Festival is on a roll after 17 years … and why not? It’s always a lot of smashing pumpkin fun!
The “Kingaroy Cruisers” campaign to raise funds for MS Australia is speeding up, with the launch of a special raffle and cash from other fundraisers starting to roll in.
Kingaroy’s TJ O’Neill Oval hosted one of the biggest football crowds seen in Kingaroy for years on Thursday with the official kick off of the four-day 18yrs State Secondary Rugby League Carnival.
Yarraman marked the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first train to the town (May 1, 1913), with a range of celebrations on Saturday.
Commissioner Peter McMurtrie, AO, was the special guest at Monday night’s meeting of the St John Ambulance Cadets in Kingaroy.
Nanango’s Autumn Race Meeting got off to a late start on Saturday after a horse threw its jockey.
The 2013 Evolution Solar Presidents Cup Finals on Saturday all turned out to be thrilling, close games. Nanango was heavily tipped to win in all three grades but the day’s action didn’t go entirely to script
The red carpet was rolled out at the 7th Big Screen Festival in Nanango on Friday night for the special guest star, actor and comedian Magda Szubanski.
