BULAHDELAH Men’s Shed has inched closer to their eventual goal of relocating to the Bulahdelah Golf Club. In an exciting step forward, volunteers from the Men’s Shed and Golf Club gathered recently to witness the pouring of the slab at…
REAL country spirit was exhibited at the Stroud Show, Friday to Sunday 5-7 April, as horse-masters, dog owners, and dignitaries alike braved the savage weather to continue the annual tradition. Friday’s main arena hosted some very wet horses and their…
WORKS have begun to make the Singing Bridge’s pedestrian access system more user-friendly, within a week of the Bridge’s vaunted Golden Jubilee. The southern side of the bridge’s Hawks Nest approach is receiving a new concrete ramp, with a footpath…
PRIMARY school students in Port Stephens will soon become champions of the NSW marine estate, with a new education program released by the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Fisheries. DPI Director, Marine Estate Management, Mr Heath Folpp, said the…
THIS is the first part of a series on master fisherman Jimmy Chalkley. MY wife Ella and I arrived in Nelson Bay in 1974. After settling in to our home in Fingal Bay I regularly dropped into the Country Club…
THE LAKES Trail Festival is Australia’s newest off road ultra running event, with endurance athletes set to arise en masse to traverse the Myall Coast this July. Runners can compete in gruelling 100km, 70km, 50km or 30km event categories, while…
KEEPERS and their families who manned the Port Stephens Outer Light lived a Spartan lifestyle which, for them, became increasingly difficult when in 1898 a mighty sea, referred to as the Maitland Gale, roared from the south and continually battered…
YOUTH Action Meeting (YAMs) will be rolled out across the Hunter to identify and support vulnerable young people. The NSW Government will fund YAMs in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens-Hunter and Hunter Valley Police Districts. Advertise with News of The…
CELEBRATIONS for the 50th Anniversary of the Singing Bridge saw multiple community groups converge for a singular day of uniquely local festivities at the Tea Gardens Hotel on Saturday 6 April. The Pearls of Port Stephens ran their stylish ‘Buy…
PROBUS members of Hawks Nest and District Combined welcomed twelve new members to their Club, before receiving an enlightening historical presentation from NOTA’s own John ‘Stinker’ Clarke at the Hawks Nest Golf Club on Friday, 5 April. While the birds…