FUTSAL is booming across Port Stephens. What’s futsal I hear you ask? Futsal is an association football based game played mainly indoors on a hard court smaller than a football pitch. It is similar to five a side football or…
THE recent release of Seniors’ Stories Volume 8 highlights the many stories that older folks have to offer to reflect on their lives. This year’s theme was ‘Celebrating Diversity’. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for…
BOATERS will have the opportunity to dispose of their expired flares from this month in Port Stephens via a free mobile collection program. Transport for NSW Executive Director NSW Maritime Mark Hutchings said mobile collection sites will be set up…
COMMUNITY groups are being encouraged to make an application for funds to conserve the state’s community war memorials under round two of the NSW Government’s Community War Memorials Fund. Minister for Transport, Veterans and Western Sydney David Elliott said…
EYEWITNESS accounts of the end of the First World War, as recorded in diaries and letters, are now available online as part of a major digitisation project led by the Australian War Memorial. These diaries and letters give an intimate…
THE Myall Community Art and Craft Centre are again holding their annual Christmas toy appeal to aid the Salvation Army. “In previous years this has been well supported by the local community,” said Susan Burns, Myall Community Art and Craft…
FOR those living on the Myall Coast, access to infrastructure like hospitals is often a challenge. Thankfully, for those in need of medical attention the area has a Free Clinic Bus. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth…
TEA Gardens boxer, seventeen-year-old Zane Pietsch has his first amateur fight on Saturday, November 19 at the Nelson Bay Bowling Club. Having just finished his HSC at Hunter River High, Zane is primed for his first amateur fight on the…
THE Rotary Men’s Health Education Rural Van (MHERV) is coming to Bulahdelah and locals are encouraged to hop on board for a free health check. ‘Saving men’s lives’ is the catch cry of the campaign, an initiative of the Rotary…
DESPITE the fact that the Myall Masters are yet to have a training session in the local community pool due to ongoing renovations, on Saturday 5 November a small but talented group of members traveled north to participate in the…