Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Maleny’s Maple Street upgrade

Maleny’s Maple Street facelift has begun after 16 years of planning, several community consultation processes and budget bottlenecks inside Council. Sunshine Coast Regional Council has now started work on a beautification and road project that extends from Myrtle Street to the Obi Obi Creek Bridge. Stage one includes an upgrade to the Cooke Park frontage, a new [...]

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Working with sound and images

Television and video production company Sound Images has built up a strong client list since setting up a full production studio at Mt Mellum more than 28 years ago. Recently they expanded their facility, moving the offices, video editing and graphics suites into their new Maple Street, Maleny head office. Its directors, Tony and Kerrie [...]

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From the Editor

I know it’s bad form to skite but when the Hinterland Times wins the same award for the best looking regional paper in country Queensland, two years in a row, it’s hard not to mention it. (Story: right). Well done to our small team and our printers, Horton media. Another [...]

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We’re the ‘best looking’ paper in Queensland

THE HINTERLAND TIMES has been judged the best looking regional paper in the state for the second year running by the Queensland Country Press Association. The Hinterland Times won three awards in the annual Queensland Country Press Awards function held in Brisbane recently. The magazine received the Technical Excellence award for [...]

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Hinterland Times helps Settlers Rise spread the word

SETTLERS RISE 2005 Reserve Shiraz has done it again! The national Winestate Magazine has given the Maleny wine a 4 Star Silver Medal for the same wine following its recent acclaim at the World’s Greatest Shiraz Challenge. The Maleny Winery’s Shiraz beat many more expensive and fancied rivals in a huge [...]

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Trevor Hart… the music and mozzarella man

TREVOR HART has been blowing his own trumpet for years now. This well known jazz performer, composer and band leader is a figurehead in Australian improvisatory jazz culture. But Trevor has always had a yen to make cheese, which he says has some of the unpredictability and creativity of [...]

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Peter Hudson … about things we forget

“This latest exhibition is about the things that we take for granted and forget”, says Peter. “The images are there to remind myself, and hopefully an audience, of the things that are fragile, and that’s why I keep using fish and birds because they are the epitome of survival”. There’s a painting [...]

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A tale of 2 jags

  THEY SAY THAT OWNING A JAGUAR MOTORCAR is a lifetime love affair. They also say there are two days when you love a Jaguar … the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Which might explain the two Maleny men who love this iconic classic marque, but are now selling their beloved [...]

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Thelma Porter… “an extraordinary woman”

“An ordinary life but an extraordinary woman” was how the family of Thelma Porter, marked her passing recently at Erowal in Maleny. Born in Toowoomba Thelma grew into a well read child who told a school inspector confidentally about the breeding habits of salmon and her love of Zane [...]

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Taking the hassle of buying a car… with Greg Stevens

THERE ARE SOME people who love buying a car. They love the smell of possibilities as they trudge from car yard to car yard. And there are those who loathe it with a passion. For these people MCU may well be the shining light they have been hoping for, with the [...]

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