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Growing bonds strengthen Fassifern’s family club
WITH Father’s Day on Sunday, supporters of the Fassifern Bombers Rugby League Club have an added reason to celebrate. The proud Harrisville-based club features a…
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Major housing estate proposed for Harrisville
A LARGE scale housing estate is planned for Harrisville by a subsidiary of a leading Queensland developer. The 95-lot rural residential subdivision, if approved, is…
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A Vietnam Veteran Investigates Grandad’s Wars
THE Irish Civil War of the 1920s is not the sort of thing you’d think would be remembered by a Vietnam veteran. Nor World War…
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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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