THE nation’s best IGA supermarkets have been recognised at the 2021 IGA National Awards of Excellence over the weekend, including local store Lovey’s IGA Xpress Hawks Nest who took out the IGA Xpress Store of the Year and the…
ELIGIBLE community groups are being invited to apply for a new funding round to support ongoing recovery and build resilience and preparedness for future disaster events. Funding of between $2,000 and $15,000 will be available for community development and…
THE Tea Gardens/Hawks Nest branch of the Red Cross Emergency Services Team has been awarded the Distinguished Team Award at the recent AGM in Sydney for their work during the fires of 2019-2020. The evacuation centre in Taree was…
MIDCOAST Council is asking for community feedback on an action plan designed to build child-safe practices across the organisation. “Ensuring that children feel safe at all times when in our facilities and accessing our services is an important priority…
THE Tea Gardens Swimming Pool was officially opened on Saturday by the Y NSW, just in time for the summer season. Closed since early 2020 just before the pandemic took hold, the Y NSW in partnership with MidCoast Council…
RESULTS have been flowing in all weekend after an eventful two weeks of pre-polling and election day voting. With a 12.73% informal rate of votes and progressive quota of 2,013 for a Council of eleven members, results weren’t as…
AS 2020 drew to a close the ‘what a year it’s been’ feeling was pretty much unanimous, so who’d have thought 2021 could possibly be worse! But so it turned out and now, with lockdowns hopefully behind us ‘forever’…
AS Local Government Elections approach, News Of The Area is introducing you to the candidates for the Election. Michael (Mick) Bergin is a Hillville local who is running as an ungrouped independent candidate for MidCoast Council. Advertise with News…
AS Local Government Elections approach, News Of The Area is introducing you to the candidates for the Election. Alan Tickle from Taree is running as an independent candidate for the upcoming MidCoast elections after a break from Local Government…
THE men of the Bulahdelah Men’s Shed have been busy building animal boxes to help protect a range of endangered species in the region. “Last year we developed some microbat boxes,” said Bulahdelah Men’s Shed President John Lee. Advertise with…