ARTS Upper Hunter’s John O’Brien met with Dungog Shire creatives and heritage handlers on Thursday, 31 October at the Dungog CWA Hall. Participants were invited to ask questions and make suggestions about Arts Upper Hunter’s priorities and strategic plans for…
CLARENCE Town was treated to the annual spectacle of the ‘Swim In’ from Monday 28 October to Sunday 3 November. Now in its ninth year, the local caravan park was bulging at the seams with owners of military vehicles, and…
THIS story is part of a series about military veterans laid to rest at Dungog General Cemetery by Dungog RSL sub-Branch Vice-President Martin Holmes. NX41741 Private Aubrey Clarence Pritchard – WW2 AUBREY was born at West Maitland NSW in 1920…
ELYSIAN Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band, comes to the Royal Hotel, Dungog on Friday, 29 November. The viola da gamba is a seven-string instrument with frets about the same size as the cello. Advertise with News of…
PATERSON Public School was a bustling hive of activity last Friday and Saturday, 25 and 26 October, with an outdoor working bee. A great turnout of adults and children came to the school to build a remembrance garden. Advertise with…
IN the Dungog Shire, 50 babies are now receiving free, age-appropriate books each month through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, thanks to the efforts of Dungog Early Literacy. The initiative, aimed at fostering a love of reading and strengthening early literacy…
GIG in the Gog is on again this Sunday, 27 October, from 12-2pm. Dungog Arts Society’s free, all-ages performing arts event, is open to everyone. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us.…
COMMUNITY garden spaces have long been desired by locals in Clarence Town, with a keen group of enthusiastic locals now cultivating the dream. Rather than creating a singular community garden space in isolation, the goal is to create a network…
BY 8am on Saturday morning, the streets around the Bank Hotel Dungog resounded with roars as highly-polished show cars and bikes, hot rods and rat rods, tractors and trucks rolled into town for the annual Dungog Rumble. There was even…
DR Aunty Rhonda Radley brought attendees into a state of Ngarrangga or “deep listening” during the fifth “Listening to Indigenous Voices” presentation at The James Theatre in Dungog. This interactive session on Saturday, 12 October, engaged 57 attendees in the…