PROBLEMS plaguing our roads may have been solved more than a decade ago, an investigation by News Of The Area has revealed. The addition of recycled glass to the ingredients used to make road surfaces 12 years ago seems to…
LANDFILL operations are set to change significantly, in accordance with a State Government environmental policy. MidCoast Council has announced that the Stroud Waste Management Centre has just received $168,457 as part of the NSW Government’s ‘Landfill Consolidation and Environmental Improvements’…
BULKY waste and awkward, unwanted large items can soon find a new home, out of place and out of mind, with the MidCoast Council Bulky Waste Collection now upon us. Given the massive geographical scale of the MidCoast LGA, all…
ADVENTURE upon the high seas has given one local young man a life-altering experience, as he sailed from Sydney to Brisbane aboard the STV Windeward Bound. Kassian Sikora’s story featured in News Of The Area recently, this being his successful…
BOTANICAL beauty is not easy, but the dedication of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Volunteer Garden Group has lovingly tended the beds and plants around the park beside Hawks Nest Community Hall. When the Group first met in October, 2020,…
YEARS of planning, lobbying and discussion have finally come to fruition, with the beginning of construction on a much-needed footpath along Mirreen Street, Hawks Nest, connecting Peter Sinclair Gardens to Tuloa Avenue. Especially for the elderly residents of the Gardens,…
LONG overdue hazard reduction burning was performed to protect the Tea Gardens industrial estate on Saturday, 13 May. Locals and visitors down near the river may have been alarmed to spot the plume of smoke rising from the top of…
BEAUTIFICATION is in the hands of the children at the Tea Gardens Skate Park along the Myall Way. The weather-beaten blocks of featureless concrete that are the Skate Park’s ramps and jumps greet motorists at the gateway to Tea Gardens,…
POWER will be cut due to planned outages across Hawks Nest, from Monday, 1 May to Saturday, 6 May, as local power provider Essential Energy undertakes major electricity maintenance. All customers affected by the series of planned outages should have…
MEMORIES and history of the local area, and its veterans, were sealed underground before the Time Capsule and Mural Explanatory Photo Board were officially unveiled at ANZAC Park, Tea Gardens, on Sunday, 23 April. This unveiling was many years in…