THAT’S a wrap for the Coffs Harbour & District Eisteddfod 2023, with all disciplines completed. Eisteddfod president Debbie Waters told News of the Area the Coffs Harbour Eisteddfod provided almost 4,000 performance opportunities, across four venues in the Coffs Harbour…
MORE people are relying on Marine Rescue NSW than ever before. As accounts were tallied for the financial year’s end, administration volunteers noted a 7.5-per-cent increase in rescues. It’s a new record, a solid increase on the previous greatest number…
SILT will block the Myall River by Christmas, a ferry skipper said this week. Noel Gaunt, the skipper of the Y-Knot ferry that regularly plies the route between Tea Gardens and Nelson Bay, said there are now multiple areas of…
ON a day when thousands of people across the country were showing their support for a ‘yes’ vote at the upcoming referendum, locals in Bellingen began to mobilise to raise awareness of the ‘yes’ campaign during NAIDOC Week. Gathering at…
MUSIC of Winter, a concert by the Coffs Harbour City Orchestra, comes to Bellingen Memorial Hall on Sunday 16 July at 2pm presenting a “wonderful” concert of winter-inspired music. Themed concerts are a new idea for the orchestra, and being…
BROUGHTON Island has been a fishing paradise for as long as records have been kept. Firstly, the Worimi people, followed by local Europeans and the Chinese in the mid-to-late 1800’s, then the Italians from 1893. Greeks set up small fishing…
HUNTER Young Business Mind Awards, now in its sixth year, is on the lookout for the Hunter region’s best budding young entrepreneurs. Do you know a young future entrepreneur who has an idea and wants to showcase it to a…
DEEP Winter Agrarian Gathering 2023 takes place in Bellingen Showgrounds Friday 14 to Sunday 16 July. With floods and the pandemic postponing meetings since the last gathering in 2019, event spokesperson Kaycee Simuong from The Mandarin Bend organic farm in…
FRESH ink? There’s no worries donating blood now. Under a new rule change to blood donation, Mid North Coast locals can roll up their sleeves and present their veins just a week after getting a new tattoo. Advertise with News…
SEASONAL flights from Newcastle to Cairns and other tropical Queensland destinations have now begun, just in time for the July winter school holidays in NSW. Some Hunter residents who may not take too well to a sub-tropical winter here may…