DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in relation to the March 2023 IPCC climate report “survival guide for humanity” final warning. Now that we have everyone’s attention on global warming, it’s time to confront the bigger problem. In a…
THE recent AGM of the Combined Medowie Probus Club has seen a new Committee elected for the year 2023 to 2024. After the AGM, members adjourned to the Lakeside Tavern for a Changeover Lunch and the start of the new…
INCUMBENT Member for Port Stephens, Kate Washington, who was successfully re-elected with 54 percent of first preference votes, remained characteristically unassuming in her gratitude to the electorate in Tea Gardens this week. “I am genuinely humbled, particularly by the response…
WHEN 83-year-old John McDonald was unable to restart his 4WD after stalling at a roundabout on the way to Millers Forest, he hopped out of the vehicle to give it a good old fashioned push. As luck would have it,…
ANNA Bay local John Langius received a rude surprise when out for a Sunday afternoon walk with his family. On 26 March, John was walking along Gan Gan Rd when he happened upon a pile of debris dumped by the…
THE Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation’s (NPCF) latest funding round opened on Wednesday March 29, with a pool of over half a million dollars available for new or existing projects which support health, young people and social wellbeing in the Hunter.…
FEMALE soccer players aged 30 and over are in for a treat this season with the introduction of a ten team Interdistrict Over 30s competition. The inaugural Monday night series – scheduled to kick off on April 24 – will…
TUESDAY 28 March: The Final of the Tea Gardens Women’s Bowling Club Championship Triples was played and what a terrific Final it was – a “nail biter” right to the end. By the third end Jeanette Emmett, Judi Polak and…
AS a teaser to The Wyz Wimmin and Friends Theatre Company’s performance of a new play, ‘Love Bites’, at the North Coast Botanic Gardens, the Nambucca Valley thespians are giving a pop-up show at Artists in the Garden on Sunday…
LAST week the iconic Bowraville Theatre played host to indie filmmaking workshops led by a pair of film makers who had been through the process, with some success, and wanted to share what they have learnt with others who may…