THE Myall River Voice, Interests and Education of Women Club (VIEW) marked it’s 26th Anniversary at the Tea Gardens Grange Clubhouse on Friday, 14 July. More than 80 members congregated, including those of sister clubs at Tilligerry, Maitland, Gloucester and…
TANYA Thompson’s first three months as The Nationals Myall Lakes MP have been busy, and she’s using the parliamentary winter break to confer with her electors. “Having been involved with the back-office issues under Stephen Bromhead (her late predecessor of…
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…
REFURBISHMENT work will begin in the next two weeks at Hawks Nest Community Centre on Booner Street. MidCoast Council on June 28 voted to release money for the upgrade from its ‘developer contributions’ funds. Advertise with News of The Area…
DESPITE assurances from both investors and government, people living along the Hunter coast remain most worried about environmental issues related to wind farms, a new report suggests. Seabirds preying on bait schools attracted to the structures supporting the turbines being…
SUPPORTING volunteers who turn out to help in a crisis is a key focus of a new state government consultation. Communities across NSW regularly band together to support each other through volunteering with emergency services organisations such as the State…
THE Commonwealth Bank of Australia has vowed it will close no more regional branches for at least three years. Regional communities have for decades protested a swathe of branch closures from the big four banks, which led to a Senate…
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…
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…
HOPE is immortalised in a very special artwork now on display at Galleries in the Gardens on Marine Drive, Tea Gardens. Entitled ‘Hope – The Survival Tree’, the sculpture is a mixed-medium piece made from clay and copper wire, and…