The Probus Club of Port Stephens had a most interesting visit to the Hunter Medical Research Institute Open Day. A first class and world renowned facility with more than 1400 medical researchers working across Hunter New England Local Health District…
Port Stephens Councillors have unanimously endorsed the waiving of development application fees relating to the renovation of the Nelson Bay home of deceased NSW Police Sergeant Geoffrey Richardson. Sergeant Richardson was tragically killed on duty in March this year after…
Mental Stress in workplaces costs Australian businesses more than 10 billion dollars per year. Safe Work Australia Chair, Ann Sherry AO highlighted the increasing concern in workplaces about work-related mental stress in a report from April 2013. “The personal impact…
The local Green Army team have been working their magic along Soldiers Point Road where they are nearing the completion of their latest project. The team of eight, headed by Stacy Mail, have spent a mere three days clearing, constructing…
Had plastic bags been discarded in the ocean around 1566, they would only now, in 2016 be breaking up. Four hundred and fifty years, or so, is the time it takes for a plastic bag to break up. That is…
The HUON and NSW State Government’s Aquaculture Farm is being met with more protest from individuals as well as tourist operators. Concerned residents and business operator feel there are questions that still have not been answered. “Why has there not…
Harry Adnam, a young Soldiers Point teenager, has a bright future ahead of him. Harry was recently chosen to be a youth representative at the YMCA NSW Junior Parliament 2016. This was the third consecutive year of Junior Parliament and…
INDIANNA Indianna Green, Event Manager for the 2016 Surfarama could not be more pleased with the attendance today at Birubi beach for the final leg of the Surfarama series. The Surfarama is a surf competition series that has the objective…
A popular food and wine festival has been resurrected thanks to the Tomaree Business Chamber and the support of business. “Tastes of the Bay is back in 2016,” said Tomaree Business Chamber president Ryan Palmer. Mr Palmer said there was…
THE Hunter Koala Protection Society has been running a media campaign recently to bring the issue of the destruction of koala habitat and the plight of the koalas on the Tomaree Peninsula under the spotlight. They have approached the Government…