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Our commitment to covering the news of the day that matters to you remains as strong today as it has been for more than a century.
Across the Whitsundays, from Airlie Beach to Bowen, Collinsville to Cannonvale, asking the questions you want answers to and reporting on issues important to you remains at the heart of what we do.
As you would have no doubt seen in the past week, the Whitsunday Times website – together with the Whitsunday Coast Guardian and Bowen Independent – is undergoing a change.
And it is for you.
We know what you, as readers, value because it is you who have told us the stories you want us covering, and the news that matters to you.
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For more than 100 years, the Whitsundays news that matters to you has been covered with passion and pride because we’re locals and we live here.
Our journalists across the region have worked tirelessly to report on news that matters to our valued readers because we know it is important in the lives of residents from Bowen to Proserpine to Airlie Beach and beyond. The Whitsunday Coast Guardian display at Proserpine Museum. The Guardian began in 1904 but no original copies exist until 1911, except for a ‘brown paper’ issue in 1905.
In our long history, the means of delivering the news has continually evolved from black and white printed papers to a digital website with video, photo galleries and interactives.
Denise Mccullough spoke highly of Jodi. The best at everything … cutting, colour, you name it, she does it and I always walk out feeling beautiful, she said. Happy customers also rallied around Anita Odd from Scamps Hairstylists, who said she was overwhelmed by the support. I love making people feel good about themselves, Mrs Odd said. If your hair looks good, you feel so much better in yourself. It was a busy year on the water as readers cast lines everywhere from Poole Island to the VMR. However, it was Brad Roberts who took out the title of best catch with a coral trout he caught around Gloucester.