More than 10,000 collectibles – everything from model cars and hundreds of dolls to full-size wagons, farming machinery, petrified wood and a dinosaur footprint (collected somewhere in the South Burnett) – will be going under the hammer on Saturday in Kingaroy.
The South Burnett has been recognised as home to one of the top ten Nissan dealerships in Australia.
The Department of Transport and Main Roads yesterday began works to widen the shoulders along part of the D’Aguilar Highway on the outskirts of Kingaroy.
Victoria Cross winner Keith Payne addressed Sunday’s Vietnam Veterans Day service in Kingaroy
St Mary’s Catholic College has hosted its annual NAIDOC Day celebration of Aboriginal and Islander culture
Hundreds of motorbikes “headed out on the highway” – the Bunya Highway, that is – on Sunday morning for a special Motorbike Festival.
The South Burnett Community Orchestra will be holding an Open Orchestra Evening at the Uniting Church Hall in Alford Street, Kingaroy from 6:00pm to around 8:30pm on Wednesday, August 14.
Kingaroy’s Jemima Larkin is “a wonderful, natural, warm and cheerful early childhood educator”, and now she has an award from the Rotary Club of Kingaroy to prove it.
A happy crowd descended on the Nimue Art Gallery last Saturday for the opening of a new exhibition
Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington has officially handed over four new ambulances to paramedics at the Kingaroy, Nanango and Yarraman ambulance stations.
Kingaroy and the South Burnett will feature in a new Channel 9 reality show … if our bachelors scrub up okay for TV!
A display of Vietnam War memorabilia has been placed on show at the Kingaroy Heritage Museum
Kingaroy Town Hall was packed with 440 people and more than $35,000 was raised … so by any measure, Saturday night’s Relay For Life “Dinner With The Captains” was a great success.
A funeral service was held in Kingaroy on Friday for Tom Hauritz, a well-known South Burnett resident and the oldest member of the Kingaroy-Memerambi RSL Sub-Branch.
Kingaroy SES hosted a Landsearch Course at the weekend, training members in all aspects of searching, including forensic searching and preserving incident scenes.
Kingaroy State High School officially bade farewell to its visitors from Fudooka High School at a dinner for teachers, host families and students in Kingaroy on Friday night.
The State Government has allocated $498,000 to help flood-proof Pound Street in Kingaroy
Who cares if Goulburn Valley fruitgrowers are being forced to rip out and burn their orchards because of foreign imports? Well, not many people in Kingaroy, it seems, after a rally to support the plight of the Victorian town of Shepparton fell flat on Thursday morning.
Kingaroy Town Hall was packed to capacity this evening for Kingaroy State High School’s annual “Flair” concert
South Burnett Regional Council workers have spent the past few months giving Kingaroy’s Apex Park a major makeover and the former “rocket park” is almost ready to be relaunched … but a suggestion it should also be renamed has provoked anger in the local community.
