PORT Stephens Council has won a Gold Award in the Australasian Reporting Awards for its accessible and transparent 2019 to 2020 annual report. The awards provide a benchmark for world best practice in annual reports and recognise those who…
WITH cross referenced computer records and private companies researching our history, it’s a relatively easy task these days to trace our forebears. Lemon Tree Passage’s Mark Skidmore is one local resident who has traced both sides of his family…
POLICE are appealing for public assistance to help locate a teenage girl missing from the Hunter region. Tylah Weatherburn, aged 13, was last seen at her home on Bower Road, Medowie, about 8.30pm on Sunday 22 August 2021. Officers…
DELTA is on everyone’s mind. It is separating us from our family and friends and this week we go into yet more restrictions with the lockdown in the regions extended until at least August 28. The new restrictions in…
THE NSW Government has announced an increased financial support program for tenants and landlords through the extension of the Residential Tenancy Support Package. During the past eighteen months, NSW residents have suffered inconsistent lockdowns and losses of work, all…
THE Positive Behaviour and Learning (PBL) program has continued despite lockdown. The nominations are made in arrears so we will continue to see students recognised as the lockdown continues. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it…
THE Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and the past few weeks have seen an explosion in the number of people owning dogs as isolated residents seek companionship. With both on-lead and off-lead waterfront exercise areas as well as an active…
A GROUP of Salamander Bay residents have expressed their concerns about the clearing of the littoral rainforest which sits between Bannisters and the foreshore at Salamander Bay. The strip of littoral rainforest sits on Port Stephens Council managed public…
THROUGHOUT the various lockdowns NSW has endured over the past year, one thing remains true, many of the older members of society have been left disconnected from the family, friends and the wider community. For the older people in…
LOCKDOWN is an ideal time to release your creative spirit and to tell that story you have always wanted to put down on paper. What’s more, you don’t have to be highly educated or a literary lion to write…