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06/12/2025

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05/12/2025

Thanks to a funding grant from Landcare Australia and Bupa, under the 2025 Healthy Cities Landcare Grants Program, an additional 1500 Australian native plants 🌱🌿 are soon to be planted along the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail at Lowood 🚴‍♂️🌾.

West Moreton Landcare President, Kevin Lewis, said he was thrilled 🎉 Landcare Australia and Bupa had chosen the rail corridor at Lowood as one of their 28 approved project sites across Australia 🇦🇺.

Thanks to a funding grant from Landcare Australia and Bupa, under the 2025 Healthy Cities Landcare Grants Program, an additional [...]

05/12/2025

A new exhibition in a Lockyer Valley art gallery is said to exemplify the colours, textures, lines, shapes, and movements found in nature 🎨🌿✨.

Distomorph is now showing at the Lockyer Valley Art Gallery 🖼️.

It's brought to the valley by Brisbane-based artist Svenj, who uses textiles, screen printing, devore print and embellishment to create three-dimensional sculptures 🧵🌀🌈.

A new exhibition in a Lockyer Valley art gallery is said to exemplify the colours, textures, lines, shapes, and movements [...]

04/12/2025

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04/12/2025

BREAKING: Lockyer Valley Regional Council has announced the retirement of its longstanding CEO Ian Church.

Lockyer Valley Regional Council has announced the retirement of its longstanding CEO Ian Church. Mr Church, who began with Lockyer [...]

04/12/2025

📚🏛️ A library in the Lockyer Valley will soon have its hours reduced due to a lack of community interest.

📉 A Council review into the Laidley Library's use found that patronage has dropped significantly since the Covid pandemic, and that 📆 Saturday mornings and 🕗 weekdays were among the quietest hours.

A library in the Lockyer Valley will soon have its hours reduced due to a lack of community interest. A [...]

03/12/2025

https://tlsindependent.com.au/news/2025/12/03/council-backs-grantham-plan/

Lockyer Valley Regional Council has unanimously endorsed the Grantham Structure Plan as the strategic framework to guide future development in the Grantham Structure Planning Area.

Lockyer Valley Regional Council has unanimously endorsed the Grantham Structure Plan as the strategic framework to guide future development in [...]

03/12/2025

A Somerset author has seen an incredible reception from her debut novel 📚 and has just released the sequel ✨.

Coominya local Carol Rogers writes under the pen name C. M. N. Rogers, and Witchborn, the seminal story in the developing dark fantasy series, The Bellarose Legacy 🖤🌙, has proven to be a powerful creative outlet for her ✍️🔥.

A Somerset author has seen incredible reception from her debut novel and has just released the sequel. Coominya local Carol [...]

03/12/2025

Last week saw widespread power outages across the Somerset region, leaving hundreds of Energex customers without electricity following severe storms.

Last week saw widespread power outages across the Somerset region, leaving hundreds of Energex customers without electricity following severe storms. [...]