WITH beaming smiles and bright new uniforms, St Joseph’s Bulahdelah welcomed sixteen new students into kindergarten recently. There were a few tears as parents sent their babies off to big school with most of the tears coming from the parents!…
A JAM-PACKED program of fun and excitement will celebrate MidCoast seniors over Seniors Festival 2023. ‘Celebrate together’ is this year’s theme and you are invited to attend one of the events taking place across the region until 12 February. Council…
LOCALS have a voice on the new MidCoast Council Community Resilience and Disaster Recovery Reference Group which had its second meeting on Tuesday 7 February, following an induction meeting late last year. Multiple disasters (drought, fire, flood, COVID) have impacted…
FOR over 150 years, Lions Clubs have assisted communities all over the world, including 75 years working in Australia. The local Lions Club in Bulahdelah has been very proactive over the last few years, completing more than fourteen projects to…
A CELEBRATION of the area’s seniors comes to Hawks Nest on Saturday February 11, for the second (and biggest) ‘Let’s Celebrate Together’ Seniors Expo, proudly sponsored by the NSW Government and the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association Incorporated. The…
PORT Stephens has a new NSW One Nation candidate in Corlette resident Mark Watson, who will stand in just under seven weeks at the NSW State Election. Mr Watson works in the hospitality sector of the Port Stephens community and…
THE Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Lifesaving Club will benefit from $92,088 to improve the storage and security of Surf Club equipment and implement a solar energy system which will produce energy and financial savings. The funding comes through the…
MIDCOAST Council’s additional $7.5 million local road upgrade program is in full swing, with work to begin at several new locations this month. “The $7.5 million road upgrade program is helping accelerate improvements to our local road network,” said Executive…
FOLLOWING four new Varroa mite detections in the Hunter and the Central Coast, the eradication zone has expanded north of Karuah. These cases bring the total number of infected premises to 112 since Varroa mite was first identified at the…
NSW FARMERS says time is running out to prevent mass bushfires at the end of the year. Former Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins told The Daily Telegraph “the summer after a triple La Nina you get major bushfires in…