PEOPLE living with a disability as well as their friends, families, carers and service providers are invited to an online focus group in early March to help develop Council’s Draft Disability Inclusion Action Plan. The goal of the focus…
FREE business workshops in the MidCoast region will equip local businesses to make the most of the shop local movement, as part of Small Business Month in March. The workshops are for businesses that are already part of the…
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THE NSW Poisons Information Centre have issued a reminder to keep all poisonous chemicals in their original containers. Poisonous chemicals come in a rainbow of colours and often look very appealing to children. Children are at greatest risk of…
‘COASTAL Memories, A life by the Water’, is an exhibition of paintings by Galleries In the Gardens member Jan Johnson-Furness. It opens on Wednesday 2 March and closes Monday 28 March 2022 at The Gallery in Tea Gardens. Advertise…
MIDCOAST Council will re-examine public and community pools within the local government area. In a notice of motion moved by Councillor Peter Epov and seconded by Councillor Peter Howard, it was resolved that the General Manager is to bring…
LOCAL real estate agents R & R Property have been recognised as one of the top 100 agencies in the country, as voted by vendors and buyers. When R & R Property founder and Managing Director Denise Haynes scanned…
MORE than 40,000 businesses across NSW will be supported to phase-out single-use plastics in line with the NSW Government’s recently announced Plastics Reduction and Circular Economy Act 2021. Environment Minister James Griffin said the NSW Government is partnering with…
AFTER several postponements due to wet weather, skaters from across the region took to the Tea Gardens Skatepark on the weekend for free Learn To Skate workshops from Totem Collective, Australia’s largest skate-event company, in partnership with MidCoast Council.…
LAST week a historical Bill has passed in NSW Legislative Assembly legislating that that councils must take certain steps towards rehoming a seized or surrendered animal before euthanizing the animal, including working with rehoming organisations. This is a large…