ABORIGINAL community members are invited to nominate for MidCoast Council’s first Aboriginal reference group. The reference group is the first action to be delivered from the recently adopted MidCoast Aboriginal Action Plan. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s…
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…
DRIVERS of the local Free Clinic Bus get to break in a new steed as they welcomed the new vehicle at Hawks Nest Golf Club on Sunday, 27 August. Delivered on 25 August after many months’ anticipation, the new bus…
REMEMBRANCE for veterans of the Vietnam War was conducted in a solemn and poignant ceremony at ANZAC Park, Tea Gardens, on Friday, 18 August. While the Vietnam War’s end-date may be debated, 18 August was chosen as it commemorates the…
THERE was movement at the jetty on Apex Park, Tea Gardens, this past week, however, it will not be to the extent that most locals were hoping. As previously reported in the News Of The Area, the Apex Park Jetty…
THE Myall River’s Natural Channel is now almost completely sealed off from Port Stephens, a NOTA investigation can reveal. Drone images supplied by the Myall River Action Group (MRAG) clearly show the immediate situation, with the channel now half its…
VEHICULAR vandalism has been wrought upon the small, but beautiful, garden at the corner of Yamba Street and Tuloa Avenue in Hawks Nest. A small spread of bromeliads, carefully planted by the Tuesday morning volunteer garden group across the road…
A SMOKY horizon greeted the coast on Friday 14 July, with planned hazard reduction burns reducing fuel loads in the surrounding bush. Tea Gardens/Pindimar Rural Fire Service, joined by significant elements from Nabiac and Limeburners Creek stations, performed critical, controlled…
WHALES will be a permanent fixture at Bennetts Beach, Hawks Nest, having materialised upon the western wall of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club’s storage block, courtesy of local artist Jeanette Hart and members of the Myall…
LAUNCHING a boat at Tea Gardens’ Apex Park jetty has become a thing of the past, as orange danger fencing and a hastily attached “wharf closed” sign now bars passage. It is a physical manifestation of the bureaucratic red tape…