THE TEA Gardens and Hawks Nest Bitou Busters met under rainy skies to launch a new season of battling invasive weeds in the lower Myall area. Seventeen of the bush care group gathered at the Winda Woppa Reserve for a…
FISHING will be the order of the day, indeed, the entire weekend, when the Karuah Motor Yacht Club (KMYC) hosts its annual Fishing Competition this 28-30 April. Affected by COVID, as have been so many local events these last few…
INCUMBENT Member for Port Stephens, Kate Washington, who was successfully re-elected with 54 percent of first preference votes, remained characteristically unassuming in her gratitude to the electorate in Tea Gardens this week. “I am genuinely humbled, particularly by the response…
THE Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation’s (NPCF) latest funding round opened on Wednesday March 29, with a pool of over half a million dollars available for new or existing projects which support health, young people and social wellbeing in the Hunter.…
A STORY of survival and a quest for acceptance, the life of Tea Gardens’ Lee Clayton has been brought to the stage in a new play depicting the lives of members of Australia’s burgeoning LGBTQI rights movement. Lee joined the…
ON 21 March, the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) confirmed that surveillance and tracing activities had detected six new Varroa mite infestations in beehives at four locations across the Central Coast, Hunter and Mid North Coast regions. The new…
SCIENCE fiction fans congregated at the successful launch of the latest in local author Greg Mutton’s ‘12th Realm’ series, ‘Incident at Zyralin 4’, which took place in the Dolphin Room at the Tea Gardens Hotel on Sunday, 26 March. “I…
HUNTER Water has been named a finalist in the ’Marketing and Communications for Impact Award’ category at the Banksia Foundation’s National Banksia Sustainability Awards for its ‘Respect the Throne’ campaign. The toilet paper shortages experienced during COVID-19 saw many turn…
AS A wave of red covers much of the state in the aftermath of Labor’s state election victory, the Myall Lakes have reinforced their endorsement of the National Party, with first time candidate Tanya Thompson enjoying a comfortable victory. Thompson,…
SUBMISSIONS for Seniors’ Stories 2023 open soon, giving older people the opportunity to share their life experiences. Seniors’ Stories is a writing competition aimed at celebrating the lives and contributions of seniors by giving them an opportunity to share their…