LOCAL supermarket IGA Hawks Nest has won yet another award on the national level, being crowned the 2024 IGA National Small Grocery and Perishables Department of the Year on 15 July. The awards are held by Metcash, the parent company…
THREE runners from Tateyama in the Chiba Providence of Japan participated in the Hunter Valley Winery Run on Sunday 21 July, as part of the Port Stephens Sister Cities exchange program. Hirokazu Ebato and Masashi Abe ran in the H…
FRIDAY 19 July marked a combined four hour undertaking of bush regeneration on Grassy Headland. South West Rocks Dune Care participants, alongside 27 Environmental Management students from Newcastle University and the local Stuarts Point and District Community Organisation (SPaDCO) volunteering…
INSPIRED by Paris hosting the 2024 Olympics, Coffs Harbour City Orchestra will bring their new concert, Ooh La La, to Woolgoolga on 4 August. “We’ll be playing lots of sports music such as ‘Chariots of Fire’, ‘Eye of the Tiger’,…
VETERAN volunteer staff at Nelson Bay RSL sub-Branch hosted a very special guest on Tuesday 16 July. David ‘Eric’ Brae recently celebrated his 100th Birthday, and is believed to be the last surviving World War Two combat veteran living in…
ON Thursday 11 July the Nambucca Heads RSL sub-Branch hosted a Service of Commemoration formally recognising the end of Australian involvement in the conflict in Afghanistan. The service showed respect for the lives lost and wounds received by ADF personnel…
AT 11 am on Thursday 11 July, members of the public gathered at Laurie Memorial Park with the local veterans community to participate in the inaugural Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) commemoration service. This solemn event was held to…
GREENS MLC Abigail Boyd joined local candidates Kim Scott and Mark Adamski in Salamander Bay on Saturday 6 July to launch The Greens campaign for the Port Stephens Council elections on 14 September. A key theme of the day, according…
BIRTHDAY girl Merle Harvey-Woods turned 100 last week, and celebrated in style with her friends, family, and staff at Peter Sinclair Gardens in Hawks Nest on Thursday 11 July. Originally from the St George region of Sydney, where her father…
A MOMENTOUS fashion movement making its way through the 1970s and just into the ’80s, centred around Sydney’s Flamingo Park Frock Salon, was the subject of ArtsNational Coffs Coast’s June presentation. It was the shop’s founding era, and the designers…