Fraser Coast Chronicle

REFLECTIONS: Award winners talk about being citizens of the year

Australia Day award winners reflect on what awards mean to them.

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27th Jan. 2021 4:01 PM

(L) Young Citizen of the Year winner Iluka Clifton, with Daniel Clifton and Bianca Sands. (R) Citizen of the Year winner Gail Gauld.

How Australia Day was celebrated in years gone by

Sports and flying spectacular for Australia Day 100 years ago.

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26th Jan. 2021 5:01 AM

100 years ago Australia Day was known as Foundation Day. Photo: File

Historical society returns to Kent St home

“Maryborough is a natural heritage city which people constantly come back to. It’s important to keep this heritage alive...

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15th Jan. 2021 5:01 AM

President of the Maryborough and Wide Bay-Burnett Historical Society Ken Brooks inside the Maryborough School of Arts. Photo: Stuart Fast

New details shine a light on historic Maryborough plague

New records illuminate new details about Maryborough’s medical history.

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09th Dec. 2020 7:12 PM

Marilyn Jensen shows visitor Dr Dale Johnston the records of the plague outbreak detailed by Dr Burnett Ham. Dr Johnston was also intrigued by the fine architectural cloth drawings of the original plans for the Maryborough hospital (pictured on top of the display cabinet).

From rusty frame to star exhibit: WWI bike pulls into M’boro

“Everything was buggered … now it’s like new again.”

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27th Nov. 2020 6:11 PM

(L) Motorcycle restorer Robert Phillips and Museum Director John Meyers, with the 1914 Douglas Motorcycle donated to the museum Photo: Stuart Fast

Meet the couple keeping valuable history alive

“I’m proud to keep it alive,” says wartime re-enactor.

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16th Nov. 2020 3:11 AM

HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENT: (L) Michael Whitehead with horse Winifred and his wife, Lisa Whitehead and dog Chauvel. Photo: Stuart Fast

Chronicling child care centre’s 60 years on the Coast

Centre has grown with community over the decades.

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02nd Nov. 2020 3:11 AM

60 YEARS: (L) Centre President Craig Barrett and Centre Director Kathryn Forgan-Flynn present the recently launched book. Photo: Stuart Fast

Latest chapter in flour mill arch saga unfolds

One resident has taken the future of the historic arch into their own hands

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04th Sept. 2020 4:09 AM

Traveston Dam front pages

Fraser Coast Chronicle front pages featuring Traveston Dam.

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28th Aug. 2020 2:08 PM

Fraser Coast Chronicle front page featuring Traveston Dam.

How Maryborough marked major military milestone

Sacrifices remembered at Maryborough Military Museum

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16th Aug. 2020 5:08 PM

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