ON Friday September 1, the Rotary Club of Sawtell’s famous trivia fundraiser is back and set to test your knowledge and question your wits in the good cause of bringing in dollars for projects close to the club’s heart. Monies…
THE Big W Park Beach Plaza team was quick to hop on board the launch of the Wiggles Red Nose Day fundraiser donning red noses ready to get behind the campaign. Ahead of the 35th Red Nose Day today (Friday…
STILL National Still Life Award, the biennial art prize to be exhibited in Yarrila Gallery Coffs Harbour later this year, has announced its finalists for 2023. Korora Bay artist Peggy Zephyr is amongst them. Advertise with News of The Area…
TENDER loving care was the order of the day on Sunday 30 July as Korora Landcare marked National Tree Day planting about forty coastal acacias and callistemons, allocasuarinas and acacias on a site it has been restoring. “This year we…
BOAMBEE East artist, Jingalu (Melissa Craig) has been named a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), which opens on 12 August 2023 at The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT).…
ARTISTS in the Garden this Sunday 6 August, is all about Basquiat. “For this month’s meeting the focus is on the gifted American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artists in the Garden director Tammy Mills-Thom told News Of The Area. Advertise with…
TIMBERFEST topped its record attendance of last year, attracting close to 9,000 people on Saturday 30 July, a sunny, blue-sky winter’s day. Widely decreed “a ripper”, the event offered a diverse range of things to do and see for all…
DORRIGO-born and bred ‘Missy’ Cathryn McGuire is helping people get places in her car, by becoming an an authorised point-to-point transport driver. “I was tossing up the idea of becoming an uber or community transport driver,” Missy told News of…
TODD Fenech is a busy man. He is in two fire brigades – the Newee Creek Rural Fire Brigade, and the lower North Coast Remote Area Firefighter Team. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your…
ENTREPRENEURSHIP is being introduced to school students as an exciting career path to consider. Through the Regional Youth Entrepreneurism Activation Program, students are attending interactive workshops at their school facilitated by The Scale Institute and funded by Investment NSW. Advertise…