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The Beauty of Life – Genius Loci
The landscape is in me and I am in the landscape. —Australian painter John Olsen ALFRED, Lord Tennyson, in his dramatic monologue Ulysses has the…
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Painting a brighter future for an old church
A DUO of projects completed and it’s straight onto planning the next one … it’s the often repeated story of heritage restoration. Rosevale’s St Patrick’s…
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Yes Minister – More than self-control – Rev Bruce Raymond, Fassifern Uniting Church
DURING a holiday in New Zealand some time ago, visiting our daughter and her family, we watched a television program featuring ‘the Dunedin Study’. This…
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Peeling back the layers of generational onion farming
WEDGED between looming mountain ranges are 500 acres of land that has belonged to the Stokes family for four generations. It is there that Stokes…
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Fassifern Police
Boonah Neighbourhood Watch During Road Safety week the local Neighbourhood Watch conducted a raffle in High Street, Boonah last Thursday and Friday. As well as…
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Canungra Meadows proposes 117 lot subdivision
ANOTHER large housing estate is planned for Canungra. Canungra Meadows Pty Ltd have applied to the Scenic Rim Regional Council to subdivide a 124ha block…
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Scenic Rim Council left in a poor state
COMMENT CHIEF Executive Officer Jon Gibbons leaves Scenic Rim Regional Council a bitterly divided council politically and one that has serious issues with staff retention…
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Roadvale graziers love for land produces award winning beef
A SIGNIFICANT portion of land that stretches from Roadvale to the back of the Wyaralong Dam belongs to Jim and Margaret Harvey. The graziers, who…
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Flood damaged Wyaralong trails slow to open
FEBRUARY’S floods forced the closure of more than 40 kilometres of multi-use trails and tracks at Wyaralong Dam causing regular users to find elsewhere to…
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Councillors apologise as Gibbons leaves
THE region’s top bureaucrat Jon Gibbons left Scenic Rim Regional Council this week, 12 months after his employment contract went before councillors for renewal. …
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Joe’s garlic adds flavour from crop to tabletop
THERE is something enticing about the smell of freshly chopped garlic being fried in butter. It’s a promise of what is to come … a…
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Incorrect weed management renders pastures useless
THIS week, I’d like to stress a couple of points from my last column about Giant Rats Tail grass (GRT) that were greatly amplified for…
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