WHEN Port Stephens mother of two, Kim Oakhill, experienced the loss of a friends’ child in 2014, she wanted to do more for the family than just send flowers. Kim told News Of The Area, “Flowers are a lovely gesture,…
LITTLE Lucas Pickett has endured, experienced and conquered more in his first year of life, than most will experience in a lifetime. When parents Saul and Michelle attended their twenty-week scan, they were hit with the news that Lucas was…
Karuah RSL Mens Bowls BOWLING years, while all different, have a cyclic nature. It’s no different in the Karuah RSL Men’s Bowling Club. The annual pennant competition has now wound up and the Club’s 2 teams did well without…
169 Briton Court Road, STROUD Price: $790,000 to $820,000 “Featherstone Lodge” is a rare opportunity to purchase a grazing farm within the rural fringes of Stroud Village. An approximate 59 acre pasture improved property with extensive creek frontage, a…
THEY gathered at Karuah under a bright blue sky and a backdrop of slow moving flags, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam Battle of Long Tan. It was a morning which made all the sacrifices of a conflict…
AFTER teaching health and physical education for more than a decade at Bulahdelah Central School, Ms Kate Hunt has been farewelled after accepting a transfer to Figtree High School. Ms Hunt said it’s the students that she will miss the…
MEMBERS of the Bulahdelah RSL Sub Branch acknowledged Vietnam Veterans Day with a Commemoration Service at the Cenotaph in Meade Street last week. The service was led by RSL President Peter Millen who served in the Navy during the Vietnam…
Myall Koala and Environment Group WHAT do they look like?:/strong> Echidnas vary in colour depending on their location. In the northern, hotter regions of Australia, echidnas are light brown, but they become darker with thicker hair further south. In…
Police are investigating a fire which destroyed a function centre on the Mid North Coast last night. Emergency services were called to Lakes Way, Tiona, south of Forster, about 10.20pm (Sunday 21 August 2016) where they found the function centre…
MidCoast Council is currently undertaking work to reconstruct a section of The Lakes Way through the village of Bungwahl, south of Seal Rocks Road. The work involves upgrading a 500 metre length of The Lakes Way with significant improvements to…