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Barrie is 88 years young, lives to travel

Barrie Thurecht from Buderim  is 88 years of age and lives to travel. He bought his first caravan way back in 1973 with his wife...

Show some heart, to big hearted volunteers

It’s more than a little scary to realise that one in five people wouldn’t know how to recognise a cardiac arrest and 40 per cent would...

World-first online program to replace learner driver test

Queensland’s next generation of young drivers will be the first in the world to undergo an online learner driver education program before they get...

Queensland Community Achievement Awards

Judging has taken place for the 2017 Queensland Community Achievement Awards and there is a company in Goondiwindi among this year’s Finalists:Australia Pacific LNG...

Drive safely or risk a fine

It’s the school holidays, and children and families will be on the road. The police are urging people to drive safely or risk a fine.“The Goondiwidi...

Families add rich history

The tobacco era was a boom time for Inglewood, Texas and Yelarbon.“During the peak period approximately 900 growers, mostly share farmers, grew tobacco in the...

Gundy needs you!

A bus service to Toowoomba may be a discarded wreck on the side of the road, but the Goondiwindi Regional Council has breathed life...

When Inglewood was a boom town

Members of the Italian community who grew tobacco in the Inglewood, Yelarbon and Texas areas in the boom period of the 1940s ,1950s and 1960s...

Hollywood glam at Boomi

People from all around the region were made to feel like movie stars for an evening of glitz and glamour on Saturday night at the...

Make peace not war with black-and-white dive bombers

Vet and TV personality, Dr Chris Brown has urged people to make “piece” not war with the dive bombers of September, our neighbourhood magpies.This is...

Origin jersey go towards family’s road to recovery

The State of Origin team is helping The Goondiwindi Junior Rugby League raise money for a family injured in an accident last week.In a fashion.At...

Inglewood’s ‘Show and shine’

The Inglewood “Show n Shine” was held on Saturday, September 2.There was a  good roll up of more than 60 vehicles. Proud owners travelled from near...

Yabbetes’ sixth straight Cup in last ball thriller

The Yetman Yabbettes have claimed an unprecedented sixth consecutive Meghan L. White Cup, defeating the Yelarbon Yellowbetties by five wickets in a dramatic last-ball...