OPPORTUNITIES for learning and serving the community abound at the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club, which reopened its Bar and Club doors over the Father’s Day weekend. Its hardy volunteers rested over August, both were reopened to…
A MEGA community collaboration started the new mural upon the walls of the public toilet block across from the Tea Gardens Police Station on Marine Drive on Sunday, 3 September. Three major community groups: the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress…
CLEAN, clear water will soon be made available for all to use as the Tea Gardens Pool was scoured and purified last week by volunteers from the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association (HNTGPA) and The Y. In stark contrast…
WHAT a thrill for ten-year-old Mia Wilson who caught her first ever fish tossing a prawn off Shoal Bay Beach. Visiting her grandparents David and Penny Wilson, Mia was amazed when a cracker bream took her bait and headed off…
STUPIDITY reigned on the night of Saturday 2 September, as unknown vandals left wheelie skid-mark scars all over Myall Park football field. First spotted by nearby residents at around 6:30am on Fathers’ Day morning, several witnesses informally placed at least…
DEAR News Of The Area, WITHOUT responding seriatim to the letter from the Hon Catherine King MP (‘We make better decisions when we listen’, 31/08), there are a couple of assertions by her that must be contested. She claims a…
TWO Medowie students have taken to the stage in the Young People’s Theatre (YPT) production of A Pocketful of Stories, an exciting, original musical written by talented author Claire Thomas, with songs by Glenda Price and orchestration by Alexandra McCann.…
WITH the date of the Voice to Parliament referendum announced last Wednesday, Port Stephens For Yes campaigners took to the streets in numbers to raise awareness of the ‘Yes’ vote campaign. Tens of thousands of people across the Hunter witnessed…
WITH living rooms and social media groups around Port Stephens suddenly filled with discussion about offshore wind farms, News Of The Area reporter Marian Sampson took to the streets of Soldiers Point to hear local concerns about the potential project.…
COMMUNITY pushback to the Federal Government’s Hunter offshore wind plan is ramping up, with Boat Harbour’s Rhys Westbury emerging as one of the key local voices leading the charge. Rhys, 28, is the administrator of the ‘Stop Wind Farm off…