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A Wide Bay business leader is calling for one of the regionâs main roads to be closed until it is fixed, labelling it âunsafeâ and a âtotal disgraceâ.
The road is Brooweena Woolooga Rd and has been slammed by locals in the past for its dangerous condition.
Despite this, nothing has been done to improve the situation and the road is still listed on many GPS systems as the quickest route, causing a high volume of traffic. The state of Brooweena Woolooga Road has worried locals for years, with no action taken. Picture: Google Maps.
Gympie homeowners and sellers near the city centre struck their own gold mine this year, with four of the region’s five biggest property price rises recorded within 10 minutes of the CBD.
This expansion of the market helped push the average sale prices of the region’s homes up 3 per cent between September 2019 and September 2020, figures from online property hub CoreLogic reveal. Gympie s best performing housing markets in 2020 were largely within a 10 minute drive of the CBD.
The biggest jump was at Monkland, where the median sale price of a house soared 16.7 per cent, from $248,500 to $290,000.
Chatsworth ran a close second with 12.9 per cent growth, pushing the medium prices from $385,000 to $435,000.
The class of 2020 were the first full cohort of Prep, the first Year 7 students in high schools and the first Queenslanders to receive the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, scored on a 2000-point scale between 99.95 and 0. St Patrick s College graduate Ivy Dugdale achieved an impressive 97.2 ATAR score, putting her right in the upper echelon of Year 12s across the state this year.
St Patrickâs College Gympie graduate Ivy Dugdale was âshockedâ to find that sheâd capped off a year of gruelling circumstances by landing one of the highest scores of them all, a whopping 97.2.
âIâm really happy. Iâm happy that itâs over but Iâm happy I got a good score,â Ivy said this afternoon.
THE Mary Valley Rattler has weathered the COVID storm to record its first operational surplus since returning to the tracks.
The Rattler’s financial report for 2019-20 has revealed the heritage train made $221,000 throughout the financial year, a significant turnaround from the $549,000 deficit recorded the year before.
A big part of this jump was thanks to a $124,000 increase in income from ticket sales, which topped $1.05m for the year.
A significant $370,000 came from “other income”.
Of this, $141,000 came from JobKeeper, while another including $174,000 was accounted in contributed assets, $23,000 in rental income and $13,000 from charitable income and fundraising.
The surplus has reduced the Rattler Railway Company’s net liability position to $663,000, from $884,000.