ON Tuesday 30 January, Fire and Rescue and Rural Fire Service (RFS) crews sprung into action following reports of a structure fire at a mechanics shop in Tea Gardens. Their rapid response helped prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby…
CELEBRATING the Singing Bridge’s 50th Anniversary this year requires a retrospective on what it took finally to build ‘Our Bridge’, now the centrepiece of Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest townships. Plenty of documentary evidence suggests that Hawks Nest was little…
RECENT upgrades to the North Arm Cove (NAC) website have underscored the site’s status as a model of what regional communities can do online today. While many regional towns do not even have a website, leaving locals to rely on…
THE recent holiday season has proven once again that the Myall Coast is in demand as a holiday destination and stopover on the journey north or south. While the lack of parking in Tea Gardens/Hawks Nest and Bulahdelah causes concern…
TEA Gardens writer Phillip Everett has been shortlisted in the Hunter Writers’ Centre’s annual short story competition, the Newcastle Short Story Award. Phillip has been writing since the 1980s, including time in South Australia (SA) as a founding member of…
LONG-AWAITED upgrades to the Hawks Nest Community Hall are finally nearing completion, to the palpable relief of the many local community groups that call it home. A topic of contention at MidCoast Council’s Community Conversations last year, the local groups…
MULTITUDES attended the Myall U3A Enrolment Day held at the Tea Gardens Baptist Church on Tuesday 23 January. Spoilt-for-choice enrollees could explore their artistic inclinations with the Art Group, Choir, Film, Music, Opera, Photography and Writers’ Groups, or pursue pastimes…
AUSTRALIA Day was celebrated in typical family-friendly style at the Tea Gardens Lions Club’s time-honoured BBQ Breakfast on Moira Parade, Hawks Nest. The clear morning’s swift evolution into a 40-degree scorcher did not stop the crowd congregating to celebrate being…
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…