History

WHAT do you do if you want to hold a party, a concert, a ball or a dance and there’s no school of arts, no…

She observed on the surface of the water a living animal of extraordinary shape and dimensions. The head appeared to be elongated and flattened, like…

“Twenty-one-year-old Schumacher, a kid from Boonah, stamped himself as one of Australia’s greatest riders by his polished display. It could not have been bettered by…

A CADILLAC owned by Elvis Presley is going under the hammer. The Cadillac Seville sedan is on the market at Bonhams in the United Kingdom.…

AFTER an absence of more than 40 years, the Wiss Brothers Store has returned to Kalbar. The 124-year-old building has not been relocated to its…

THE long-closed Rosevale Retreat Hotel, the state’s oldest pub still in the original building, is set to re-open at Christmas. Owner, Mitch McAlpine from Rosevale,…

IT WAS an era where young men and women of Beaudesert packed the huge ballroom at the Grand Hotel, moving to the sounds of crooners…

THE Boonah and Ipswich Thompson family sporting legacy in athletics, boxing and cricket began before the turn of the 20th century. Harry Thompson, Vic and…

TIGHT tussles are not rare in local government elections and the 2024 poll was no different with Scenic Rim’s Division 5 candidates on a knife…

“It early became apparent that when the nearer supplies of logs were exhausted it would be impossible to transport the necessary millions of feet of…

TWO Scenic Rim museum organisations have been congratulated for completing a year-long program to compare operations against the national standards. Volunteers from the Beaudesert Historical…

THE Beaudesert QCWA building will re-open in a new park-like setting, refurbished and with a new facade, next year. The renewal will coincide with the…