COMMUNITY members across Essential Energy’s network footprint can now vote for their community groups to go in the draw for a chance to win part of a $250,000 funding pool, with Essential Energy’s fifth Community Choices Program. The Essential Energy…
OLD bombs and jalopies dragged along the most circuitous route possible between Newcastle and Townsville as the ‘Shitbox Rally’ for Cancer Council funds ran between 12-20 May. Local volunteer RFS fireman Patrick Hurkett joined old friend and cancer survivor Paul…
AS early as 1857 the need for a lighthouse on the rocky coastline off Port Stephens was identified, due to the increasing reliance on shipping. As the Australian colony continued to grow, shipwrecks along the coastline became far more common.…
RIGHT now the water is boiling with fish. From Birubi in the south to Broughton up north, the action is fierce. It’s great to see big schools of surface fish; slimy mackerel, bonito, yellowtail, kingfish, salmon, a few tailor and…
REJUVENATION of the Tea Gardens Skate Park has begun, with practical work starting upon the Myall Way blocks on Wednesday, 24 May. Jeanette Hart, Myall River Art Walk Group leader, assisted by Sandra Bourke from the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens…
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,…
READING became a national event on Wednesday, 24 May, as the students of Tea Gardens Public School (TGPS) engaged with the National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS). Each year, since 2000, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) chooses a picture book,…
ART is best when heralding humans’ love of nature, as it does along the Myall River Art Walk through Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest. Over 40 sculptures, mosaics, murals, paintings, and poetry have coalesced into the Art Walk over the…
BOATERS on the Port Stephens coast are being advised not to get too close to whales as they make their annual trip north to warmer waters. Multiple pods of humpbacks have been spotted off the coast from Sydney’s Royal National…
GREAT Aussie traditions don’t come bigger than the Biggest Morning Tea, hosted by the Wednesday Morning Craft Group at Hawks Nest Community Hall on Wednesday, 24 May. Over 60 people joined, raising funds for the Cancer Council, including the RFS,…