Port Stephens News Of The Area 19 January 2023




COFFS Harbour Suns junior Keira Williams has been offered the chance of a lifetime to test her skills in the biggest and best basketball country in the world. The 17-year-old has been offered a scholarship to attend North Dakota State…

POTENTIAL NRL and NRLW players will be in action this weekend during a big day of top-class representative rugby league in Coffs Harbour. The North Coast Bulldogs junior representative teams will be in action on Saturday, 21 January at the…

THE Diggers/Nana Glen All Stars have had a season defining win beating the ladder leading Harwood with a top chase during the latest round of the North Coast Cricket Council’s Premier League season. The All Stars chased down Harwood’s total…

THE coveted NSW V8 Dirt Modified title will be up for grabs at Grafton Speedway on Saturday night. Some of the country’s best V8 Dirt Modified drivers will put pedal to the metal for the honour of being crowned state…

NATHAN SILVY has been appointed the head-coach of Coffs City United Lionesses for the 2023 season, the club he represented from the age of six. It’s a big coup for the club and a natural progression for Silvy who has…

MARK Weiley has had a Saturday afternoon to remember at Richardson Park. The Sawtell Cricket Club player took a hat trick to help his side to a two wicket win against the Northern Districts Rebels, during the latest round of…

DEAR News Of The Area, IN relation to future residential development at the Jetty, who do we trust? Is it the politician – Gurmesh Singh? He tells Andrea Ferrari (‘Too early for finer details on Jetty Foreshores plan’, Coffs Coast…

DEAR News Of The Area, READING Peter Weyling’s letter (NOTA 13/01/23), I’m reminded of two great thinkers. The brilliant physician Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk, who said ‘…human beings are experts in wishful thinking and obscuring the truth’. And NOTA’s…