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  • City lights up with colour and culture

    City lights up with colour and culture

    All Photos: LYLE RADFORD THE Spark Festival launch transformed the city centre with dazzling projections, live music, and the unveiling of the 2025 festival program…

  • Roosters battle hard at home ground game

    Roosters battle hard at home ground game

    Photos from Rosewood v Swifts rugby league…

  • Train engine storage sorted thanks to grant

    Train engine storage sorted thanks to grant

    THEY were chugging along, then a grant came their way and chugs became whoops of joy. The Grandchester Model Live Steam Association is a beneficiary…

  • Slipper factory education sparks multiple reunions

    Slipper factory education sparks multiple reunions

    IT’S A cohort that loves a catch up. Past students from the Rosewood Secondary Department meet every year, many decades after the school bell’s final…

  • Footpath safety check

    Footpath safety check

    A FLEET of quad-style vehicles will be used to run a ‘safety check’ on footpaths across the Ipswich City region in the next five weeks.…

  • Celebrate sports local legends

    Celebrate sports local legends

    NOMINATIONS are now open for the 2025 Ipswich Sports Awards, with locals urged to put forward standout athletes, coaches, volunteers and clubs making a difference…

  • Show’s grant means more shelter during events

    Show’s grant means more shelter during events

    THE 123rd round of Gambling Community Benefit Fund grants has resulted in a windfall for the Marburg Show Society. Officially known as the Marburg and…

  • Ipswich region leads property boom

    Ipswich region leads property boom

    IPSWICH has emerged as Australia’s fastest-growing property market, with house prices soaring by 116 percent since 2019 – outpacing Melbourne, Brisbane, and Queensland’s booming coastal…

  • Ramblings – 18th July 2025

    Ramblings – 18th July 2025

    Growing better never bitter AS I write this Ramblings, my dear mum is passing away in a hospice in the United Kingdom. When thinking about…

  • Federal rezoning blamed for clinic shutdown

    Federal rezoning blamed for clinic shutdown

    THE doors of Willowbank Medical Practice have closed – and with them, for many residents in the area, the last reliable link to timely, local…

  • Rosewood soccer girls have winning nicknames

    Rosewood soccer girls have winning nicknames

    IN a young team with so much personality, it didn’t take long for the players to come up with a range of nicknames. That was…

  • Awards recognise remarkable Australians

    Awards recognise remarkable Australians

    DO YOU know of an exceptional Scenic Rim resident whose service to the community through their work or volunteering is worthy of national recognition? If…

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