A JAM-packed touring circus show comes to Raymond Terrace this month, featuring a diverse array of acts designed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Stardust Circus, the biggest circus in Australia, is designed for all ages, ensuring…
SENIORS from Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest enjoyed a pottery workshop with a local flavour, as part of MidCoast Council’s Seniors Week program on Wednesday 13 March. The workshop, deliberately kept small to facilitate maximum engagement, was attended by a…
DREDGING of the Myall River estuary is yet to take place, despite recent pledges from Government representatives, and ferry services now regularly hitting the sandy bottom. Frustrated by the apparent bureaucratic lethargy, Myall River Action Group’s (MRAG) Gordon Grainger has…
THE NSW Government last week introduced a bill to parliament to ban LGBTQ+ conversion practices, fulfilling a key election commitment. Conversion practices, which can include so-called ‘conversion therapy’ and suppression practices, are formal or informal practices based on the ideology…
LONGTIME members and valiant volunteers of the Stroud State Emergency Service (SES) unit were recognised with several Long Service Awards on Saturday 16 March, at the soon-to-be-replaced SES headquarters in Booral. Multiple volunteers, who between them have given 150 years…
TWO bystanders were hit by a car doing burnouts at the North Arm Cove turnoff of the Pacific Highway at 11:40pm on Friday 15 March, proving the already-clear dangers residents have complained about for months. “Emergency services were called to…
MIDCOAST Council area pools will cease to be managed by The Y NSW as of the end of the current financial year. Existing contracts are set to expire on 30 June 2024. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s…
LAST week, the NSW Government announced what they described as the ‘biggest boost to environmental regulation in three decades’. Changes have been made to the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) and other environmental laws, to strengthen…
A MOTORCYCLE rider has died after a crash at Boolambayte. About 11.10am on Sunday 17 March 2024, emergency services were called to the Lakes Way, Boolambayte, near Bulahdelah, after a Harley Davidson motorcycle and a Ford Territory collided head on.…
A COUPLE of weeks back I mentioned that I had spent time on the Tweed River where I had been ambushed by thumping great mangrove jack. Fish to 5kg which I couldn’t land. Always ready for a challenge, master fisher…