TOMAREE High School Captains tell News Of The Area what being a Captain means to them. Mitch Evans, School Captain. Or CLICK FOR ADVERT QUOTE “I stood for school captain so that I could be a voice for students and…
BIRUBI Point Surf Life Saving Club will begin another round of training courses starting this month. The club is always looking for new members, encouraging not just seniors, nippers and teenagers to sign up to learn how to be surf…
ERIC Holliday, 96 years old, proudly heads the family who boast five generations of males. Eric is number four of five children born to Elmore and Lilian, and the first to have been born in his family after WWI. Or…
MORE high-performing business people from Asia, especially China, will be rewarded with fun-filled, incentive trips to Port Stephens in coming years if Destination Port Stephens has its way. Destination Port Stephens (DPS) is officially launching two new business events guides…
‘IT’S never too late’ is a motto that is certainly being put into practice by some of our residents, including those in their 90s. Debbie Freeman has worked in the healthcare industry for the past 20 years and now runs…
IS the Kokoda Track on your bucket list? 2017 is the 75th Anniversary of the Kokoda Campaign and Anna Bay Resident Shane Goodwin has organised a Kokoda information night where you will learn everything you need to know about…
RON Grover, a Soldiers Point resident, loves taking his two grandchildren out on the water in his tinnie. However in recent months, Mr Grover has had two tinnies stolen from the Port Stephens Council boat racks situated next to the…
THE long awaited Yacaaba Street extension, which has been the focus of long-term Nelson Bay visionaries, has finally received the green light. Funds for the project will be borrowed from Port Stephens Council with plans to commence in the coming…
PORT Stephens is famous for its golden sand and pristine beaches. Tourists and locals alike often flock to the more uninhabited beaches, those unpatrolled, to experience the feeling of isolation. Or CLICK FOR ADVERT QUOTE During the Christmas holidays,…
MANY have read about ‘Narnia’ through the fantasy novels created for children by C. S. Lewis, but did you know that we have a doorway into our very own Narnia here on the Tomaree Peninsula? The new Narnia Port…