ON Tuesday, 4 May and Thursday, 3 June saw Bulahdelah Central School (BCS) held Stage 3 Future Focus Learning Days. These days involved students from four Myall Learning Community schools in Tea Gardens, Booral, Bungwahl and Coolongolook attending BCS…
MIDCOAST Council’s response to the unprecedented 2019-2020 drought has been highly commended at the 2021 NSW Local Government Excellence Awards. One of 12 finalists in the category of Disaster Recovery/Emergency Response Management – Population Under 100K, MidCoast Council’s response…
MEMBERS of the Bulahdelah Men’s Shed have been working on a lectern for Bulahdelah Central School. President of the Men’s Shed John Lee told News Of The Area, “We were asked just prior to covid striking to refurbish the…
HOUSING is increasingly hard to find, especially in Port Stephens. Kirsty Dukes is a single mother to three children; two boys and one girl. Her two boys have autism and ADHD ODD and her daughter has ADHD. Advertise with…
Just before 5.30am (Friday 11 June 2021), emergency services were called to Italia Road near the Pacific Highway, Balickera, about 13km north of Raymond Terrace, after reports of a crash. Occupants of a house nearby located a vehicle that had…
HAWKS Nest and Tea Gardens community members have shown overwhelming support for proposed pool plans. After initial consideration at a Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association meeting, a sub-committee is campaigning for an upgrade of the Tea Gardens’ Pool,…
TIM Henman is an artist whose colourful drawings of houses are printed on paper gift bags to support Variety, The Children’s Charity. Tim is forty-three years old with autism and Down’s Syndrome and his lifelong passion for drawing is…
WINTER fashion was on show at the stunning Palm Lakes Resort on Sunday 23 May raising over $1500 for Variety, The Children’s Charity. Supported by volunteers from the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Lions Club, the event was a huge…
FOR many motorists getting to and from Port Stephens or the Mid North Coast is quite a headache – they get stuck in the Hexham bottleneck. The connection between the end of the M1 at the New England Highway…
THERE is a proposal for a three precinct subdivision, bulk earthworks with multiple construction stages and lot releases in Tea Gardens, resulting in 226 residential lots and public reserves. The developer states that, “There will be no adverse environmental,…