HOPE is immortalised in a very special artwork now on display at Galleries in the Gardens on Marine Drive, Tea Gardens. Entitled ‘Hope – The Survival Tree’, the sculpture is a mixed-medium piece made from clay and copper wire, and…
BENNETTS Beach has been the inspiration for more than one incarnation of a Surf Life Saving Club, and rightly so as it is arguably the most beautiful beach in the world. Previous reports in the News Of The Area have…
THE boardwalk at Pindimar is undergoing much-needed repair. The makeshift plywood patches have been exchanged for a more solid composite grating material that should withstand the local conditions better than the old wooden ones. Advertise with News of The Area…
GLOBAL trivia made for the warmest winter night, as the people of Pindimar, Bundabah and surrounds gathered at the fire station for their ‘Around the World’ trivia event on Saturday, 8 July. The theme was beautifully buttressed by the cornucopia…
ELECTRIC vehicle owners in Hawks Nest have a new charging location on Booner Street, just down the road from the beach. Installed in the last fortnight, the EVX pole-mounted charge station came about after a previously-reported partnership between Essential Energy…
PROFESSOR Dr Kelvin Kong has taken out the Indigenous person of the year at a recent ceremony in Brisbane during NAIDOC week. Dr Kong is an otolaryngologist (a specialist of ears, throat, head and neck) and is a proud Worimi…
SILT will block the Myall River by Christmas, a ferry skipper said this week. Noel Gaunt, the skipper of the Y-Knot ferry that regularly plies the route between Tea Gardens and Nelson Bay, said there are now multiple areas of…
TWO of Coffs Harbour’s finest young basketballers have proudly represented their state in Western Australia. Joshua Boyle and Kira Juffermans played for NSW Country at the recent Under 16 National Championships in Warwick, WA. Boyle was a member of the…
NORTH Coast juniors won four from five matches against Lake Macquarie FC in the Premier Youth League at the Coffs Coast synthetics on Sunday. In the two opening fixtures North Coast under 15s won 3-1 but the under 13s went…
THE North Coast Force Under 17 Boys have gone undefeated during the Northern NSW AFL Championships in Coffs Harbour. The Under 17s Boys and the other North Coast Force junior representative teams took on teams from the Central Coast, Illawarra,…