IT’S time for your weekly emergency services update. RFS Training This week, local brigade members from the Williamtown/ Salt Ash Rural Fire Brigade carried out fuel load assessments around the Bobs Farm area. Advertise with News of The Area…
THE Development Application (DA) to extend the building at Soldiers Point Marina has been controversial. Past President of the Soldiers Point Community Group (SPCG), Jean Armstrong, told News Of The Area, “The SPCG was formed some ten years ago…
WHEN Covid reached Australian shores, it was local company Ampcontrol at the coal face, engineering and manufacturing the ventilators that our community needed. Now the local company is strengthening its long term community support of Port Stephens Koala Hospital…
WITH nursing homes around the region in lockdown, residents and families are desperately seeking help. There is some hope on the horizon with the Australian Defence Force stepping in to help ease the crisis. Advertise with News of The…
IT was flagged, prior to the Mambo Wanda Wetlands being returned to the public, that a small parcel of land adjacent to a public park that many believed was a park, was slated for sale by Council. It enraged…
ON 11 February 2022, Marine Rescue Commissioner Stacey Tannos had the honour of attending New South Wales Government House for the awarding of bravery awards by Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC Governor of New South Wales…
A REPORT will be made by the Port Stephens Council General Manager on the viability of a library facility in Medowie. In a notice of motion raised by Councillor Giacomo Arnott and seconded by Councillor Chris Doohan, the strong…
Police are investigating an aggravated break and enter in Medowie overnight. About 6.30pm (Tuesday 15 February 2022), police have been told an 81-year-old man was inside a home on Kindlebark Street when two men and a woman forced entry…
A NEW report from the University of Canberra’s National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) reveals the staggering future economic cost of Alzheimer’s disease, and its impact on Australia’s workforce, patients, families and communities. The report, ‘The Economic…
THERE is a shortage of timber in the Hunter region which is impacting the new housing sector. Master Builders say the Federal Government’s move to increase support for the use of low-carbon timber is good news for the building…