Community

12 January 2025

Get ready for splashing fun!

Thanks to a $23,000 grant from City of Moreton Bay, the free event is back and hotter than ever, celebrating its ninth year as the ultimate summer event on Sunday, January 26 from 2pm. The free day of fun will include live music, cornhole and water b...

11 January 2025

Searching for Soil Heroes

Back for the 3rd successive round, the prestigious General Jeffery Soil Health Award recognises the work of people who care for soil health and who are educating or inspiring others. The $20,000 award will provide invaluable support to the winner to ...

11 January 2025

Wowie! It’s a Yowie!

This season, holidaymakers are in for some family fun with ‘The Great Kilcoy Yowie Hunt’ and a chance to win a $1,000 accommodation voucher to NRMA Lake Somerset Holiday Park. The Yowie can be spotted at some of his favourite locations in Somerset in...

10 January 2025

Koala population success

The Koala Health and Rehabilitation Esk Somerset Project (KHaRES), led by local conservation group Care4esK, indicated positive outlooks for the local population, with slightly more females than males being identified and a higher level of genetic di...

10 January 2025

Parliament tea for Kilcoy volunteers

Kym and Denise Modistach are well known Kilcoy community champions who devote countless hours to several groups in the Somerset. The duo were joined by volunteers from all over Queensland, where they were celebrated for their tireless contributions a...

9 January 2025

Sleep helps learn languages

A study led by the University of South Australia (UniSA) and published in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed that the coordination of two electrical events in the sleeping brain significantly improves our ability to remember new words and compl...