FROM canoeing to camel rides, robots to rolling pin throwing, the Scouts NSW Hunter and Coastal Corroboree 2024 had it all. Hosted at Stroud Showground, the Hunter and Coastal region welcomed 550 members, including 400 Scouts, 50 Venturer Scouts and…
DARKNESS engulfed Hawks Nest just after 9:30pm on Sunday 21 January, when a massive eucalyptus tree limb suddenly fell on Dolphin Avenue. It was a calm and starry night, with nary a cloud in the sky, and not a breath…
FIREFIGHTERS are welcomed from all kinds of backgrounds, as seen at the Tea Gardens Rural Fire Service (RFS) Station on Wanya Road, Tea Gardens, every Tuesday morning. The local brigade is always on the lookout for new recruits to bolster…
REPRESENTATIVES from MidCoast Council came out to Tea Gardens Pool from 11am-1pm on Tuesday 23 January for the second of two informal ‘Drop-Ins’. The previous planned drop-in, late last November, saw considerable community anxiety that the pool may be shuttered…
IF you have seen koalas in the area, spare a few minutes to share what you know and help MidCoast Council develop a Koala Strategy. “We are very interested in hearing your ideas and perspectives on koala conservation,” said Council’s…
LOCAL trivia extraordinaire Betty Hart has shaved it all off in the World’s Greatest Shave for the Leukaemia Foundation, at the Hawks Nest Golf Club on Australia Day, 26 January. Following on from Jessica Johnston’s big shave last week, Betty…
THE LIONS Club of Tea Gardens honoured two outstanding local citizens on Australia Day, with the Citizen and Young Citizen of the Year awards handed out at Moira Parade park in Hawks Nest. “Both our Citizen and Young Citizen of…
TOOTING horns greeted Bulahdelah when 67 trucks laden with 2144 bales of hay from the Aussie Hay Runners rolled through town on their latest delivery run. Having come from all over regional Victoria and mustering at Marulan in the Southern…
PERSPECTIVES on the proposed Hunter offshore wind farm have come into sharper clarity with a recent comparison opportunity provided by public details of another offshore project in the United Kingdom. According to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment…
CONSIDERABLE confusion exists over North Arm Cove’s place in our nation’s history, which News Of The Area has undertaken to explain in the recent wake of Australia Day. “One of the most intriguing aspects of this history was that some…