The by-election to fill a vacancy on Cherbourg Aboriginal Council will be held tomorrow (Saturday); the polling booth will be open at the Cherbourg State School in Fisher Street from 8:00am to 6:00pm.
South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann will be back behind the microphone on CROW-FM on Friday morning to help raise funds for Murgon mum Shona Muckert’s vital leg surgery.
The region’s small businesses should see a “substantial” reduction in garbage collection charges when the South Burnett Regional Council brings down its 2014-2015 Budget in July.
The TV ads made by Cherbourg and South Burnett children to encourage parents to send them to school every day has won high praise from around the country.
The South Burnett Regional Council’s $200-per-property Road Levy will stay in place for another year.
South Burnett Regional Council plans to survey ratepayers about scrapping quarterly rates notices in favour of half-yearly bills, and introducing new methods to make payments easier.
South Burnett Regional Council is encouraging residents to get healthy and active over the Easter school holidays.
Free Laser Skirmish will be happening in Yarraman later this month as part of National Youth Week celebrations by the Toowoomba Regional Council.
Kingaroy’s controversial $6.5 million Taabinga Downs development – which includes a 116-lot relocatable home park – looks set to get the go ahead after all, despite a negative vote at the South Burnett Regional Council’s March meeting.
South Burnett residents will soon have an opportunity to honour family members who died during WWI
South Burnett Regional Council has confirmed that rates will rise in the 2014-15 Budget but councillors are working to keep the rise to less than the 5 per cent which was tipped last year.
More than $1.2 million in roads funding for the South Burnett and Cherbourg councils is at risk of being blocked in the Senate, Deputy Prime Minister and member for Wide Bay Warren Truss said today.
FK Gardner & Sons (FKG) have begun working a new roster in a bid to complete repairs to flood-damaged roads, culverts and floodways around the South Burnett by the end of June.
Ratepayers connected to any of the South Burnett’s five sewerage schemes are likely to pay an extra $100 pa when the South Burnett Regional Council hands down its 2014-15 Budget in July.
Round 4 of the annual Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) program will open for applications on Monday (March 31).
Could your business cope with an emergency? According to statistics provided by a group coming to the South Burnett tomorrow, 43 per cent of businesses affected by disasters never re-open. Another 29 per cent fail within two years …
Four community groups have been successful in the latest round of funding from the Mayor’s Red Earth South Burnett Community Appeal.
Toowoomba Regional Council Customer Service Centres and offices will be closed for the Royal Toowoomba Show holiday on Thursday.
Gympie Regional Council, in partnership with the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, QRAA and the Australian Government Department of Human Services is hosting Drought Relief Assistance and Information sessions in the region today.
A Community Forum will be held in Yarraman next month to develop “a community action plan”.
