Fassifern Guardian

IN 1972 a group of farmers in Allandale, a rural area outside Boonah, decided to start a bush fire brigade to protect the land they…

POLICING careers don’t all start with graduation and end with retirement, but the now former Senior Constable Bill Warwick was in it for the long…

ALPACAS are endearing but hardly what you’d expect to see wandering the wards of a hospital or retirement home. Yet this is what Mountview Alpaca…

SPACE travel has become somewhat mainstream, anyone with deep enough pockets can make their fantasy of being an astronaut come true. For now, the trips…

THERE is a volunteer at the Kalbar Sunflower Festival who travelled 7,189-kilometres to help out on the Jenner’s farm. Jongmi Park lives in Osaka, Japan,…

HISTORY happens on its own, but memories need human beings with lived experiences to keep it alive. If walls could talk at the Kalbar School…

IT’S a small rural locality inhabited by people passionate about their community. It may not have the same population numbers as Beaudesert, but Kooralbyn residents…

IT’S one of the brightest events of the year in South East Queensland, the Kalbar Sunflower Festival attracts thousands of visitors to Kalbar as they…

“WE NEED information on who to call for help when we see injured or dead wildlife on the side of the road.” That’s the feedback…

THEY mean nothing until they mean everything, timely access to a working defibrillator is the difference between life and death. But heart attacks aren’t something…

AS DAWN broke veterans and those commemorating Anzac Day laid wreaths at memorials and Cenotaphs countrywide. It’s a day with two commemorations, one at dawn…

REALTOR Grace Bennett works in Brisbane and lives in Boonah, with this she joins hundreds of commuters enjoying a country lifestyle paid for by long…