For 25 years and 1275 editions, the Bayside Bulletin has been part of the Redland community and has grown with the Redlands as it evolved from a semi-rural community to a city of 140,000 people.

Our role has been to assist in retaining the Redland identity as population growth has brought both new facilities and services and created tensions and conflict.

We have given a voice to the community and actively encouraged its members to support each other through both good and bad times.

The Bayside Bulletin has been a vehicle to disseminate information about Redland City Council activities and policies. The 1984-2009 period has thrown up challenges for all levels of government and the responses have not always met with local support.

Despite all the changes in the landscape of our community in the last 25 years - both physically and socially - the Redlands has emerged intact as a community that has pride in itself and its future.

Redlands is a city that people who have travelled around the world still fall in love with and still make a decision to call it home.

This is home for the Bayside Bulletin and our future partnership with the Redlands will build on the foundation of the past 25 years.